I’m helping my brother-in-law get some of his previously published and as-yet unpublished works on the Kindle store. You can check his print and eBook titles out at http://amazon.com/author/mhickins His work is hilarious, often shocking, but well worth a look see. Amazon Prime members can get free stories on their Kindle. Go download!

I just stumbled upon a great cheesemaking site, great for beginners. There’s two unpressed cheeses that you can easily make at home, and several recipes for pressed cheese. You could be eating home-made cottage cheese in a few hours! If you’re thinking about making your own cheese, this is a great starting place:...

The Asthmatic Avenger, a close personal friend, is currently featuring in a commercial available at this Interwebs video destination If you like it please wait until the end of the Video and then click the “FUNNY” vote, it could help Eric, Mark and Dale get work, so every vote counts!

I hear this a lot. “You haven’t posted anything in *months*!” Bah. Everything comes in threes, so I’ll give you three reasons why “I don’t blog much”. Reason Number One: I’m busy I’m actually a spy, and I have to spend a lot of time doing cool spy stuff, plus a day job that I have to keep as my cover. So as you can see, that would take up a lot of time. Reason Number Two: Video...

I am a geek. A hacker. A smart dude. I think a lot of myself, and once in a while it’s warranted. Which is why, when my Internet phone service stopped working I called and complained, and when I didn’t get the answers I wanted, or a smart-enough-sounding tech support person on the phone, I haughtily canceled my service. At least, I tried. This is a story of pride, prejudice, puppies and pie. Humble pie, that is. The Pride We...

Well, I’m back and I still own an appendix. I had appendicitis, but it took me a week and a half to figure it out. Couple that with my built-in fear of all things medicinal and by the time I had a CAT scan I’d actually beaten the inflammation back from whence it came. As it turns out, I now know what that funny stomach ache that lasted a week back when I lived in France actually was. That’s right. I’ve had...

I was just putting my six year-old son to bed, I had sang him a song and was idly chatting him to calmness. Somehow, the conversation turned to homework and then to money and then to the kinds of jobs people can get, relative to the amount of homework they get done. “You could be a doctor, a scientist, even maybe work with computers, like me”, I hinted. “Is that possible?”, he asked. Trying to wrap the conversation...