I’ve seen this piece on 60 Minutes before, but they just released it as a podcast. It’s the story of children who have severe mental disabilities who are somehow able to tap into amazing musical talent. One of the kids could play Mozart before she could say “mama.” It’s fascinating, so check it out.

Isn’t it annoying that english muffins have one good side and one bad side? The bad side is still ok to eat, but it doesn’t hold the butter/peanut butter/jelly as well as it’s non-identical twin. If anyone can figure out a way to make an english muffin with two good sides you’d probably become a…

I heard about this on FLOSS Weekly’s interview with Ben Goodger, one of the creators of Firefox. They asked him what features in Firefox are underused and he said “keyword searches.” To use this feature, go to a site you do a lot of searching on like IMDB and right click on the search box.…

Wow. This girl is afraid of pickles.

As promised, here’s the next installment of my Dad’s songs. This one was really a surprise to me. I’ve heard the song before, but I only heard him play it once or twice. He recorded it on his minidisc recorder and the sound quality is fantastic. It’s a great Robert Earl Keen song called “I’m…

We had the ultrasound yesterday and we’re proud to announce we’re having a girl!

On my Dad’s memorial site I added a feature that displays the total number of comments for each story next to it in the listing. That way you’ll be able to see if new comments have been made since you last loaded the site.

Stephen Colbert totally nails Congressman Westmoreland (R-Ga) on his stance of putting the ten commandments in courthouses. Colbert asks him to name them. Guess how many he can come up with.

I’m finally ready to post these. Many of you know that my Dad was a musician. In fact, I learned to play guitar on that big beautiful Guild he had. He didn’t write many songs, but mostly played his favorite artists such as John Prine, John Hiatt, Robert Earl Keen, and Todd Snider. My Dad’s…

Renowned physicist and author Stephen Hawking thinks we are wasting our opportunity to create a human colony away from Earth. He thinks we’re risking the destruction of the human race from “sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.” See also, MC Hawking.

I set up a website for my people to post memories of my Dad. The main story posting is a modified guestbook, but the commenting is all new code I wrote for it. Eventually I’ll probably move it all over to custom code, but for now it works.

Yes, you read that right. I’m proud to announce that on or around November 13th, 2006, Jeanne and I will be the proud parents of a new baby. Hopefully in a few weeks we should know if it’s a girl or a boy. So far the baby is doing fine. The books say it can…

This guy is living on a diet of Monkey Chow for a week and keeping a daily blog. So far he’s lost 5 lbs and his poop is described as “problematic.”

It’s been tough to post anything on here since my Dad died, but this story was just too incredible and devastating to pass over. I’m sure it will be all over the news this week. The story involves two Taylor University students in a car crash resulting in one of them dying and the other…

His obituary was printed today. Here are service details. A viewing will be held from 3:00PM to 9:00PM on Sunday, May 21st at Carnesale Funeral Home 202 S. Third St. Hammonton, NJ A second viewing will be held the following day from 9:30AM to 11:00AM at St Martin’s Church 129 Park Ave Hammonton, NJ A…

I probably won’t have time to update this site or fix any Odd Man In problems for a while due to my dad being in the hospital. He’s fighting a tough battle with melanoma. Thanks to everyone who has been helping out my family through this. Update: Dad’s out of the hospital now.

Local musician Tom Gillam had 3 heart attacks last month, but is remarkably getting better. They’re holding a benefit concert for him. I’m guessing maybe because he didn’t have insurance, but I’m not sure about that. From his website: Just wanted to update everyone on the condition of Tom Gillam. After suffering 3 heart attacks…

New Jersey is one of two states in the nation that doesn’t allow its citizens to pump its own gas. Gas stations must pay attendants to pump the gas for you. In an effort to lower gas prices, Governor Corzine wants to look into whether that would help along with lowering speed limits.Stating that lowering…

Strangest. Fact. Ever. Found via the great 700 Level. John Heder is of course the guy who played Napoleon Dynamite. John Heder’s Fast Facts: * Raised in a strict Mormon household and spent two years in Tokyo as a Mormon missionary. * Majored in 3D Animation at Brigham Young University, alongside his identical twin brother.…

Last night at the Bamboo Bernies open mic, Justin threw his brother Jeff a surprise party and invited Jonah Matranga (far, onlinedrawing, grattitude, etc.) to stop by and play an awesome set.