I Pause for Boston
I’ve been trying to figure out all day what I should say about the Boston Marathon explosions. Such a tragic act of cowardly aggression deserves something to be said–this isn’t a day to write about funny song lyrics or some crazy idea of mine. When something like this happens, we need to pause and acknowledge [...]
Cats in Boxes
This past Friday, I received the advance copies of Viticulture. I have to say, it was pretty amazing. Now I understand how all of you parents feel when you get to see your child for the first time. I’m sure it’s exactly like that, right? The sad news is that as soon as I got [...]
The Joys of Meat Wrapped in Meat
With all due respect to vegetarians, there’s nothing better to us carnivores than meat combined with other meat. It’s always a special occasion when you discover a new combination of meat on meat. Tonight my parents introduced me to a new Stegmaier family tradition, on old German dish called rouladin. Rouladin is a large, thin [...]
The Sky Is Not Falling
No, this isn’t a belated review of Skyfall (which was decent but had too many endings). This is my obligatory entry about 12-21-2012. You know, the day the Mayans predicted the world will end. First, let’s clear the air: The Mayans did NOT predict the world will end on Friday, as you can read here. [...]
Making Sense of Friday
To make sense of Friday’s tragic, horrific events at the elementary school in Connecticut, I believe that there is no making sense of it. I think that’s a pretty important concept to wrap our heads around, as difficult as it is. Let me explain in two points: It’s impossible to rationalize with a truly irrational person. [...]
The Top 5 Strategy Board Games Ever: Let’s Try This Again
Five months ago, I wrote a blog entry introducing you all to my love of board games. The meat of the blog was a list of my top 5 favorite strategy board games at the time. Well, a lot has happened in the last five months. I put a game on Kickstarter, sold 1300 copies [...]
5 Must-Read Articles
By the time you’re reading this, you’ll know who our new president will be. I’m stuck in the past, ignorant of the amazing things that you’re reading about in the future. So while we wait to know our country’s fate, I have some a few articles I’ve Evernoted recently that I think you’ll really enjoy. [...]
Help Me Survive “The Big One” with Your Advice
Although I’m far removed from Hurricane Sandy and the aftermath of the storm (I’m in St. Louis), I’ve been haunted by some of the images I’ve seen and the reports I’ve read. A week has passed and many people over there are still without electricity or water. If you haven’t noticed, it’s almost winter–I can’t [...]
Who Wears the Pants?
Recently, in fairly rapid succession, I experienced or read about three gender-role situations that share a similar theme. Situation One: The first happened when I got a really bad cold 2 weeks ago. I woke up on a Friday morning feeling terrible, and I e-mailed this to my staff: “Hey guys, I got hit with [...]
The Top 5 Strategy Board Games Ever
You can see the latest update to this entry here. This entry is going to get a little geeky, so grab your loincloths and hang on for the ride. Ever since I was a little kid, I not only loved playing board games, but I loved making board games. I’ll show you photos of my [...]
The First Video Blog: I Am Doc Brown
There was a bit of confusion on today’s blog regarding why, exactly, time travel to the past can’t work, so I decided to clear it up…with my very first video blog! I’ve been wanting to do one of these ever since I got the new iPad. Although I’m not a huge fan of video blogs [...]
5 Easy Ways to Prank Your Coworkers on April Fool’s Day
This year, April Fool’s Day falls on a Sunday, saving millions of coworkers from embarrassment. Well, the joke’s on them, because April 2 counts as April Fool’s if April 1 falls on a weekend! I just made that up, but it’s official. I’m writing this on a day when I normally don’t write blog entries [...]
You Decided: Jamey and Maria Go on a Date
Following the post last week, I asked Maria to write about the experience of being publicly dissected for today’s blog. She agreed and wrote the following post. If any readers have questions for me, please put them in the comments section and I’ll be happy to answer. It all began a week ago when I [...]
Pet Pleases #14-20
I’ve had the following pet pleases on my list of things to write about for a while, but I can never seem to get excited about devoting an entry blog entry to any one of them. They’re still worth mentioning, so I’m going to list them here. Trevor and Bryce get credit for two of [...]
My Greatest Fear #4
On Saturday, I had to go to the post office to mail a package. I was headed to a bar to watch the Saints/Cardinals game, which meant that I had to make a left turn out of the post office parking lot. That’s correct. A left turn across traffic. Four lanes of traffic, to be [...]
The Skinny Jean Saga
Exhibit A: My Normal Jeans I love my regular jeans. They’re soft, comfortable, nice enough to wear to work, fun enough to wear to a bar…they’re everything you’d want in a pair of jeans. Or so I thought. I was over at a friend’s house watching football a few weeks ago when his girlfriend–who, in [...]
Fragmentation Theory of Dating
In a recent discussion with a friend about my blog entry on why I’m intentionally single, my friend (who is a few years older than me) brought up a theory on dating and women that he ascribed to “back in the day.” I’m going to quote his description of the “fragmentation theory” below, and then [...]
The Spirit of Christmas
Note: You can apply this to any holiday. I just happen to celebrate Christmas. When I was a kid, Christmas was all about (a) the anticipation and (b) the presents. I’m not going to say that presents could make or break Christmas, but they were really important. When I got older, traditions mattered more and [...]
Better E-Mail Subscriptions!
WordPress just added their own e-mail subscription widget, so I removed the old one and replaced it with their widget (for fellow WordPressers, “blog subscription” is the widget name). For those of you who prefer to read this blog by e-mail, click the link on the right that says “Sign me up!” You should get [...]
The Vampire Talk
With the vampire movie New Moon coming out, this is a good time to sit down with your significant other and ask the question you need to ask before it’s too late: If one of you turns into a vampire at some point, what sacrifices (moral, ethical, corporal) will the other make to sustain the [...]
The Psychology of Sex #7: How to Get Someone to Say Yes
What if I told you that there is a way to get almost 100% of people to say yes to you? To anything? Would that be something you’d be interested in? Joe mentioned in the comments section last week that one other way to put people in an agreeable mood is to ask a lot [...]
The Most Interesting Thing I've Ever Read About Health Care
I’m not going to get into the health care debate. In fact, I’m not even going to write much today (with all the comments I get on the Confessions posts, I should write them every day! But I don’t have that many confessions. Or do I…) However, I read something the other day in Inc [...]
A Date’s Survival Guide to a 10-Year High School Reunion
This is a guest post by my girlfriend, Nancy. So your significant other is getting old. It’s inevitable. Unless you’re dating Benjamin Button. A 10-year high school reunion is in the near future and there’s a good chance that if he decides to go, you’ll be asked to go with him. You’re not excited about [...]
Ruminations
Apparently there’s a long e-mail going around with some insightful ruminations from the website Ruminations (I can only assume that this is a knockoff of my first blog, Irruminations). Some of these are really great, so I thought I’d share my favorites with you. The full list is here. I wish Google Maps had an [...]
