Inspiration doesn’t hit me often, but today it hit me like a sack of steaming excrement.  The idea: create a martini that tastes like the creamy goo at the center of a Twinkie; the Twinkietini.

Before setting out, I did a quick Google search that revealed a couple of so-called “Twinkietini” recipes that already [...]

I was amused today to stumble across a surprisingly lengthy Wikipedia article on the Korean urban legend of “fan death.” Many (most) Koreans seem to believe that falling asleep in a room with a running fan can cause sudden death through means that have never been quite clear to me, and which [...]

When I decided to start a serious blog a couple of months back, one of the things that I told myself that I was going to refrain from blogging about was political issues.  There are enough people out there doing that and they’re mostly more qualified than me to hold staunch positions worth sharing [...]

Testing my new Wetoku account.  Applications for YongoPal?  Maybe.  The record functionality is awesome and, like TokBox, it is totally browser-based.  However, the quality is pretty rough.  The service is still in private beta, so we’ll have to wait and see how it develops.  Really cool tool, though.

For whatever reason, I’ve managed to remain outside of the Seattle startup community loop since Jon and I started YongoPal in February.  I’m trying to remedy this by reading the Seattle 2.0 blog so that I can be informed about upcoming events and try to benefit from the aggregate knowledge of blogging Seattle [...]

It’s 3:45 PM Pacific Time, and even though no one seems to have confirmed the reports, every major media outlet is reporting that Michael Jackson has died.  Regardless of the verity of the reports, I think that watching the story grow on Facebook and Twitter over the last half hour has highlighted a couple of [...]

Hard Gay is on a mission to make sure that today’s youth are grateful to their fathers (or ‘daddies’, as the case may be).  Happy Father’s Day!  Hoooooooooo!

Repost from YongoPal:

Just wanted to write a really brief update. Yesterday, Jon and I met with our developers for the first time since they started coding a couple of weeks back. We weren’t expecting to see much, but they actually had a lot to show for two weeks of work. Everything’s [...]

Repost from YongoPal:

Early last week, I was connected with the CEO of another company that offers online English lesson services to South Korean students. The company is based in the Philippines, and their angle is to provide inexpensive ESL services by leveraging Filipino English speakers as teachers and tutors — something not [...]

This recent episode of The Daily Show really crystallizes everything that I’ve been saying about it since the beginning of the Obama presidency.  For the past eight years, the show’s content was directed largely at criticizing the Bush presidency.  And who can blame them?  Those jokes wrote themselves.

Now that the Bush administration [...]