What is it to get Hoffsmacked? It's all explained here: Hoffsmack: A History Hoffsmacking is a rebuttal to Rickrolling invented recently by a small assembly of anonymous conspirators in Toronto. I'd actually never heard of Rickrolling before, but apparently it's consuming bandwidth across the world. If you get RickRolled, the Hoffsmack is ...

Tonight I put up my first item for sale on eBay. I made these things ages, ages ago. Now I'm selling them... one at a time buy my stuff

Siddalee Beryl Peony Ring. details and guestbook: http://www.ianring.com/siddalee/

This winter is our first incorporating all the domestic duties of a homeowner, and the novelty means I am tackling all the menial outdoor chores with keen enthusiasm. I take out the garbage like I'm delivering manna to the starving, rake my leaves with pride. So when our city was dumped with ...

This is interesting. Sugarrae challenged me and 4 others to reveal 5 hitherto unknown facts about myself. Then I am supposed to "tag" 5 others to do the same, in a chain letter blog virus. I'll play along. 1. I'm adept at music theory. While my major subject in ...

Today, after the fire was out (more on that later), I packed up my grumpy family (both wife and child were tired and sniffly) and we all went to the pumpkin farm. What a great time! We picked out about a dozen pumpkins and gourds of all sorts, had some hot ...

Today I quit my job working as a bouncer at a speakeasy. I never really worked as a bouncer. It was a joke I've shared with my daughter for the past 2 years. How would I explain to a cute little 2 year old girl what I do for a living? Would she, whose ...