Leonard reassured me that the baby Nixon did not exist and look who's talking now!

"The Future Soon" reminds me of "Oh but it's not the future yet Giblets" you say, "You just need to wait til the video of the present becomes the kitchen of the future." Maybe it …

MC Masala this week is something I actually like. My dad used to say that the private or inexplicable conversations between me and my sister were "sister-sister talk." This column has some of that flavor. …

I just stayed up a wee bit too late, waiting for the Internet to work again and finishing up In the Company of Cheerful Ladies and Blue Shoes and Happiness. Blink, blink. I bet my …

A sensical-in-context quote from a friend: "I feel like Milton in Office Space, but people are piling staplers on my desk." More Miltonage.

Saw The Devil Wears Prada (intriguing) and Rushmore (sort of slight, actually, after all the buildup) for the first time this weekend. Saw Brick for the second time (still awesome). Saw Rock And Awe: Countdown …

"It's usually difficult for vegetarians to vindictively order the most expensive thing on the menu." Also: Remember that bit in the Mahabharata where Yudhisthira makes an opponent believe that the opponent's son has died by …

Tips on small talk and my experience seeing "The Daily Show" get taped. Mildly entertaining.

Kevan Davis has set up an online game that I inspired. John Donaldson is the awesome prof who gave us a lecture on Black-Scholes option price modeling. Incidentally, despite what some may tell you, neither …

Today I ate most of a small can of sliced pickled jalapeno peppers. A colleague commented that I looked flushed. Yes, I'm fine. Hoo boy.