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My enthusiam for Smallville dipped when I found out they were having an episode that featured Clark Kent’s dog, Krypto. Niki’s tripled. The other day I mentioned that Batman had a crime-fighting dog, but I didn’t know what breed it was and I couldn’t recall its name. Named Ace, he was originally a German Shepherd andContinue reading “Ace, the crime-fighting Bat Hound”

I was picking up my dinner two nights ago and instead of taking the long way around the block and parking on the side street, I spied a meter space on the corner and pulled in. Dinner wasn’t ready yet, so I had some hot tea and waited for them to finish up. Returning toContinue reading “Parking rage”

Smallville fans, check this one out. It’s our new site Luxist and the logo has a Superman symbol in the middle. Luxist is sort of a spin-off of The Brian Alvey Weblog. They’ll be taking some of the strain off of me by constantly posting about luxury items so I don’t have to. Awesome!

A year and a half ago, Jason and I had tickets for a Foo Fighters show in Camden, NJ. I didn’t know when I got the tickets that Camden was practically a suburb of Philadelphia, but we made the best of it. We drove from Manhattan to Philadelphia, sat at Morimoto’s sushi bar and had an amazing dinner servedContinue reading “Times Like These in Camden”

Doesn’t everyone have one of those friends who swore that if Bush was re-elected that he or she would be leaving America and moving overseas? Maybe you don’t have one of those friends, but you know a celebrity like Alec Baldwin who made a statement like that. Maybe you’ve never heard of Alec Baldwin. MaybeContinue reading “Go Gadling”

One of my favorite childhood movie memories was seeing the first Superman movie. We had been living in Brooklyn, NY for almost a year after moving from Virginia. It was New Year’s Eve and it was snowing lightly. We went for a long walk in Bay Ridge and arrived at a movie theater that wouldContinue reading “You’ll believe a man can fly”

Last weekend we needed a break from work and medical misfortunes, so Niki, Jack and I headed to Connecticut for some apple picking. I could have sworn she said we were going to the “Apple Store,” but it turned out to be an amazing afternoon anyway. Jack ate apples off of trees and had aContinue reading “You can pick your friends and you can pick your apples…”

Amnesty USA picks some pretty cool people to work with. Even Jason used to work with them. Happy Cog Studios started Amnesty’s redesign project nearly a year ago. Even though I have been a “lead developer” on Happy Cog projects, Amnesty already had their own sprawling international content management system and my lone contribution to the project was informationContinue reading “First Peter Gabriel, then Jeffrey Zeldman”

This morning in Norway, two masked armed robbers stole Edvard Munch’s famous movie poster painting of Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone. There wasn’t much security in the museum — the thieves just plucked the paintings off of the walls and walked out the front door to their escape car. Our local Applebee’s bolts three-dollar postersContinue reading “Munch and run”

Last month, officials at several military bases were concerned about the security risks of a Coca-Cola contest that rigged Coke cans with cell phones and GPS chips. The NSA and Army bases including Fort Knox declared these cans a threat to security and advised engineers and soldiers to examine their soda in advance and to leave themContinue reading “No can do”