Monthly Archives: June 2014

Uh… you know that post where we are trying to break the record for the most comments on a WordPress blog post? We now have 29,261 comments…

Come on, people… be a part of history! Leave a comment. I bet we can break 30,000 by this weekend. Just click on that link… the one right over there at the top of my sidebar. You will not be … Continue reading

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The best father’s day gift in the whole history of having children… (or): Wow, do my kids know me or what?

Oh yeah… that is exactly what you think it is… a stamp with a picture of my face on it! Being the self-obsessed person that I am, you can surely imagine how freaking exciting this is for me. My older … Continue reading

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Oh, and I got two new Tweets from Eric Idle of Monty Python… so for those of you keeping score of my celebrity Twitter stalking… that’s 6 from Eric Idle, 1 from William Shatner, 2 from Ricky Gervais, 1 from James May of Top Gear, and 4 from Dana Carvey, who is still following me on Twitter for some unknown reason… but still no love from Hugh Laurie, dang it.

Okay, these are not in order, and part of the conversation is missing, and there is no context, but still… be jealous… be very jealous… Arthur Browne‏@ArthurBrowne1 17h @EricIdle We stole our tune from one of your old drinking songs… … Continue reading

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More tips for taking great pictures of reef fish when you go to Maui on your second honeymoon…

First of all, and I hate to state the obvious here, taking pictures of fish requires the ability to swim… Oh, and don’t forget to take the obligatory underwater selfies… those never get old… and a good underwater camera will … Continue reading

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A guide to taking great pictures of reef fish while snorkeling in the waters off Maui on your second honeymoon…

(or): Really, Arthur… more fish… how long are you going to swim around looking at fish, and are we really going to have to look at every picture of a fish you took? Hey, I am trying to mix it … Continue reading

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101 things you can do on that post where we are trying to break the record for the most comments on a WordPress post… even though WordPress can’t or won’t tell us exactly what that record is… but all of these ideas have been tested and they work, and now that I think about it, I might as well try to break the record for longest title on a WordPress post because for some reason, WordPress seems to give us unlimited room on the topic wall pages when it comes to the titles… and that sounds like a loophole, if you ask me… oh, and the comment post now has 28,078 comments on it, if you care, which is way more than some posts that went viral because the post was about something so nasty that people had to visit it just to insult the writer… and we did all of ours with love and rainbows and unicorns…

  The comment record post is a great place to:   1. Meet new people… and lure them to your blog where you can keep them prisoner with your charm and wit 2. Release your inner demons 3. Act out … Continue reading

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Fishies!… part 6…

Come here, you crazy Maui reef fish… you will not escape me so easily… I will identify you… oh yes… I will… Ooooh… what’s that what one called? It is sort of boxy. That should be easy to identify. Let … Continue reading

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Fishies!… part 5…

There I am, swimming around in the waters off Maui, trying to match up fish with the pictures on my dive card… and I must say that I am not thrilled by the way my neck looks all wrinkly… I … Continue reading

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Fishies!… part 4…

Look at that intense glare of concentration in my eyes. That is the sort of concentration that it takes to identify tropical reef fish in the waters off Maui… because they do not cooperate in the identification process at all. … Continue reading

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Fishies!… part 3…

Turns out that identifying reef fish on Maui with only a couple of dive cards is like picking a perpetrator out of a police lineup when they are all wearing clown makeup. Even sitting here at my computer, zooming in on each … Continue reading

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