Mark Denovich

I picked up my new bowling ball this evening from Joe Ritter of Ritter's Pro Shop. I wish I wasn't so surprised to receive good customer service. I really appreciated that he called _me_ to…

It's a safe bet that I'll never take the trip Scott Fisher did, so it's a good thing he did such an admirable job of documenting his trip to North Korea. Except for all the doom, lack…

I've been living with a leaky exhaust on the Milano for quite a while now. The slip fittings joining the header downpipes to the center exhaust are a bitch to seal. I finally tried a little…

I think I'm going to finally make the switch from Sendmail to qmail. I don't claim to know Sendmail, but I've spent enough hours being sodomized by it that I at least know it in the…

I resisted the urge to make a Hope related title pun. Seems like these days you can't have a single headline without a pun no matter how laborious. This Christopher Hitchens' article via…

Here's how to disable it: I was getting so tired of that damn thing starting every reboot. I couldn't remember how I killed on my previous laptop. I checked all the usual system service…

Our offices are less than a mile from a bowling alley. Wednesday we bowled a few games at lunch, and it was pretty fun. It also completely sucked using a house ball... the lanes were very oily, and I…

I love seeing how people find my site with google. My weblog analysis software starts fresh each month, and 9 hours in I think I've found a winner for August. Not once but twice, my site was…

2 pounds ground lean pork 1 pound beef liver 1 cup buckwheat flour 3 cups yellow corn meal 4 tablespoons salt 4 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper 2 teaspoons sage 2 teaspoons ground mace 2…

So I ate beans three meals in a row... no discernable gastro-intestinal effect (no significant difference from baseline.) What gives? Musical fruit, my ass.