Ninja. Awesome. What 12-year-old boy doesn’t love throwing stars? On the 51 percent chance that you were never a 12-year-old boy, throwing stars are hand-held, star-shaped hunks of metal with between three and 12 points around the edges, used in a similar manner to throwing knives. Shuriken, as they are known to the more well-informed [...]
Category Archives: Accidents Waiting to Happen
Ninjas are Soooooo 1988
15-Mar-06It Could Be Worse
23-Feb-06I’ve discovered a surefire way to pick myself up whenever I’m feeling down. The next time I’m struck by a bout of self-pity, I shall think of this picture: This is a lifeboat full of people that survived the sinking of the Titanic. Next time I feel alone in a cold and hopeless world, I [...]
A Greeting from 2025
26-Dec-05Happy Holidays! It sure has been quite a year for the Borkenhagen family. Little Jacob found a new path in life, the ex-wife remarried, and it looks like I’ve finally seen an end to all my legal woes. We can only hope that 2026 is as good as this year has been! After months of [...]
This e-Male is an iJerk
27-Nov-05I was sitting in front of my computer screen when it finally sunk in: we were really done for. There would be no reconciliation; it was over. As I sat there staring blankly at her Friendster profile, I knew it was official. She’d changed her relationship status to single, and there was no going back. [...]
Dude, Where’s My Money?
19-Sep-05Ashton and Other Guy, together again. Several weeks ago, I logged on to my bank account to find that my balance was roughly $400 less than expected. I sat back in my chair, scratched my head, and racked my brain for ways in which I might have accidentally spent such a large sum of money. [...]