The thing I find strange about this is not that it happens but that it doesn't happen all the time...or that we do not recognize it happening:  •  “...John Mackey, the chief executive of Whole Foods Market...used a fictional identity on the Yahoo message boards for nearly eight years to assail …

What is it about the internet that brings out the prophets and the blind? There is some much that is so hard to swallow that you are amazed by the smallest acknowledgment of how things really are:  •  “Social networks are enjoying their moment of ubiquity right now. A couple of years ago, it …

Can there be 100 comments without ry? That was the question I asked myself last night. We have settled into a kind rapport even with our differences. Is this middle age? Yesterday at the beer blog, I cited a post that I wrote in October 2003. That's a long time ago. When do blogs hit middle age …

Well this is interesting. Sometime ago I signed up for ReviewMe, a paid review service over at A Good Beer Blog and once in a while have received a small but useful amount for a short and somewhat useful review of a web site. I got an email last night for this web site called Sports Picks and I …

How will I remember this week? How will it sit in the past? I loaded and unloaded a canoe by myself this week. I bottled a hefeweizen. I ate well-roundedly and got a decent amount of sleep. If a nuclear holocaust were to come and I survive like those few in A Boy and His Dog or even Mad Max this …

My favorite blog these days is one from London about beer. Stonch has only been writing for a few months but his style is cheery and knowledgeable. Like me, he brews and hunts out new styles but unlike me he is much more in the centre of things beery. He also has a great eye for the photographic …

Yes, your life is flying by. The end of June is the end of the first half of the year, the year you still think of in the back of your mind as new. Time to get another hobby or make a greater change.  •  Update: freaky:  •  “Authorities said Thursday they are trying to determine who altered the …

Seeing as I never did anything with MySpace (or Twitter, or Orkut, or Friendster....) I wonder if the fact that Facebook works for me and my undergrad pals says something about us:  •  “The research suggests those using Facebook come from wealthier homes and are more likely to attend college. By …

An interesting week. The Red Sox have gotten back in gear and gotten back into the groove as the Yankees again falter. Summer is now here which means it will be a bit colder this weekend compared to last. Gary reports a tornado yesterday from the cold front that gave us hail up here. That was the …