When you're in the convenience store, and there are 5 or 6 people behind you in line, now is not a good time to purchase 7 different scratch-off lotto tickets using the change from your piggy bank. [...]
Number of comments: 2 Now here is a post about a totally inane topic: boots.
Boots come in all forms and fashions, from hiking boots you lace up to your knee, to combat boots meant to be worn in battle, to the old-style pointy-toed Larry Mahans that the Texas Rangers wear.
Rachel Lucas and John Hawkins tackled this question today, and I liked some of their solutions. Rachel says it should become a meme. I aim to help her by posting my answer to the question.
Question: Suppose you were elected Temporary Supreme Dictator of America.
My cousin emailed me about guitar today (he plays as well) and in my response I thought I'd send him a list of songs that I actually know the solos to. Most of the time, even when gigging, I do not take the time to learn a solo note-perfect, just [...]
I seem to be the kind of dude that stumbles upon these "accidents" more often than others. A guitar that costs much less than it should, but performs way above its perceived value.
My first electric guitar was a $150 Lotus Strat copy. Being a poor college student, I [...]
I've been playing City of Heroes for quite some time, took about a year off, and came back in November to work on my lower level characters (mainly, The Groovy Cat). I already have a level 50 (that's the max in the game) named OTC Conan. So I found out [...]
But still, today, I am listening to the original cast recording of "Jesus Christ, Superstar."
This is a significant event in my family. Every Easter, my late father used to have a party, and he had a reel-to-reel tape of this recording, and about 30 copies of the script [...]
Every day, when I went to work, I would put in the Evil Dead and Mad Max trilogies and leave them running. It would be cool to have a parrot say "Come Get Some," or "The Ayatolla of Rock and Rolla!"
Seems like all last season there were TD returns of kickoffs and punts, pundits talking about rules changes favoring the returners, etc...
...I'm sorry, but I spend a lot of time watching NFL.com, watching highlights on their awesome video page, and I have one thing to say about this. [...]
Ok, so I believe I have posted before that my blog name here comes from my gaming persona. On many of the blogs and message boards I go as otcconan. This usually leads to people calling me "otc" for short. This is a misnomer, because "otc" could refer to [...]
Number of comments: 1 This is what I'm talking about. And apparently she got a great reaction. San Antonio has this incredible inferiority complex, so that whenever something happens, like a hurricane, or earthquake, every time, without fail, we have to have media stories about the "San Antonio connection."
Now I'm a batchelor, so I admit that sometimes my home can lack in the cleanliness department....lol.
So anyway, the other day I did a thorough clean up and pick up around the place. Everything was put in its proper place, trash taken out, old things I don't need [...]
It's been a while since I talked politics on this blog, and since this is an election year, it's probably as good a time as any to get my blasts in before it's all over and all the yahoos have dropped out who are never going to win. And it's [...]
I normally don't really link to mainstream blogs, mainly because, being cheap and lazy, I use Blogger, and don't really have a good, reliable backtrack feature, and I understand not backtracking is rude behavior and all.
But this I find hugely entertaining. Not funny, mind you, because I [...]
[off-kilter, odd meter heavy metal riff] "Bush is Hitler and the Government is Evil" [another riff, then stop, to prove we're good musicians and can stop together] "Armenian Genocide" [another stop, to break the monotony] "And we're no better cause we bomb brown people" [pathetically bad guitar solo followed [...]
Number of comments: 2 I guess I kind of feel obligated, as a hard-core gamer, to post some nonsense about how great this game is and how great it is that this game has made $175 million in its first day.
But there are a few points that I'd like to make. Before [...]
Surgical Steel is now at www.surgicalsteel.blogspot.com. [...] 
