Cromely's World

A couple weeks ago, Microsoft made they sad announcement that they are discontinuing my favorite video game -- Microsoft Money. The current...

On Sunday, the string of celebrity deaths continued. I'll let other post tributes to Michael Jackson. The death that got me was that o...

A lot of work goes into taking care of my plants. And sometimes it's nice to eat the results. Last week (2009-06-21), this was how my z...

This past year we saw the Seattle PI shut down the press. Denver's Rocky Mountain news also shut down. I commented on some of those iss...

I went to pick up Duck Noodle Soup at t he local Thai place today. My neighborhood is going through a bit of construction. But First Hill ...

I was looking forward to the first flight of Boeing's exciting new 787 this month. Unfortunately, that's not going to happen. Appar...

Sometimes I get caught up in my morning activities and forget to make coffee until about 1:00. Today was one of those days. 1:00 -- Clean ...

This video is two weeks of growth in my garden. I shot a bunch of pictures on 2009-05-30 and on 2009-06-16. I planned to compare and contra...

In this clip, Shatner welcomes Conan to LA. He decides that since Conan is new to California he should tell him stories about his own cross...

(Thanks to LDK in STL for sending me this article) I rolled back into my hotel room this evening at about 8:30, and by 9:00 my body simply d...

Yesterday I wrote about staking my tomatoes too tightly. That's not the only mistake I made this year. Once I knew it was time to stake...

This is the first time I've grown tomatoes on my deck. The last time I dealt with tomatoes, I was was probably 10 and working in the ba...

The GF and I saw Pixar's Up in 3D a couple days ago. I'm glad I saw it, but I'm still not sure how I feel about it. The movie st...

A little boy so afraid of the shadows under the bed that he couldn't move, couldn't look, sure that whatever was under there would g...

The GF is an excellent cook. She really knows what she's doing in the kitchen, with the stove, and everything and makes magic in there....

Yes, I finally started using Pandora. I've known abut it for years, but never got around to trying it out until this week. Pandora is a...

I like Seesmic. It's a flexible alternative to Tweetdeck. If you use or are interested in hearing about Twitter, you may find this pos...

The Central Course is a beautiful space. There are both fast food and local restaurants there, along with travel friendly and funky shoppin...

I love the WNYC Radiolab Podcast. I wrote about their fascinating piece on sleep here . This weekend, I caught their shorter piece on the...

About a month ago, I found a visitor in my plants . I told her she was welcome to visit my outdoor plants. And today, she came back to check...