The Crazy Neighbor

A couple of months ago, @geekygirldawn started up a website called The Crazy Neighbor. I guess she has a few crazy neighbors. The format of the site is like many others out there — I Can Has Cheezburger, Picture Is Unrelated, GraphJam, and so on. Users submit photos and those pictures get posted. While I … Continue reading The Crazy Neighbor

Flashback: thump, scraaaape… thump, scraaaape…

I started blogging in 2001. Prior to that I had a couple of website on which I wrote things in a fairly unorganized fashion. I had netninja.com, my main site since 1997, and used to have diedrichs.org, a site celebrating a gang of coffee shop buddies, from a few years after that until I finally … Continue reading Flashback: thump, scraaaape… thump, scraaaape…

These are the people in your neighborhood, in your neigh-bor-hood…

The car has a new clutch! Well, not technically the clutch, but the master and slave clutch cylinders. The clutch is now very firm with a completely different friction point than before. The change is so drastic that I feel like I’m 16 and have never driven a stick shift before. I haven’t stalled it … Continue reading These are the people in your neighborhood, in your neigh-bor-hood…

Always blindly follow chemistry instructions from the internet!

I have heard stories of the crazy neighbor that Connolly had when he lived in the apartment complex near Ladd’s, before buying a house. It now seems that the very same crazy neighbor was attempting to cook up, in the kitchen of the apartment, a hydrogen fuel cell using a modified pressure cooker filled with … Continue reading Always blindly follow chemistry instructions from the internet!

How about an “I don’t give a crap” button?

Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal.  To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2004/12/I live in a nice little duplex house that is normally pretty quiet. There is an obviously stoner couple living next … Continue reading How about an “I don’t give a crap” button?

Sorry to harsh your mellow

Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal.  To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2004/07/I just knocked on the neighbor’s door to introduce myself and ask a question about trash and I think I interrupted … Continue reading Sorry to harsh your mellow