In popular culture, the term “Easter Egg” means something that is hidden or only observable to someone who is diligently looking for it. This can be like the fact that you can find the Star Wars characters R2D2 and C3PO in the hieroglyphs in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. Stuff that…

When I was growing up watching cartoons, the world was still Judeo-Christian enough that when a cartoon character died, it wasn’t surprising to see a “ghost version” of themselves, now clad in a white robe, with a halo, wings, and a harp, floating upwards towards the heavens. And had you asked me at that time…

I don’t know how much you like it, but I usually sigh when I get one of those “two factor authorization” messages when I’m trying to log into something. You input your username and password, expecting to be let in to whatever it is you’re trying to get into, and then you get a message…

One year I went on vacation after Christmas. Since I wasn’t going into the office, I decided that I wasn’t going to shave. By the end of the vacation time, I decided that I still wasn’t going to shave. The season of Epiphany came and went, and then we got into Lent, and by the…

Peeps. These sugar coated marshmallow baby birds (now outsold by their rabbit cousins) are sort of like the candy corn of Easter — not many people will confess to liking them, but they still sell well enough that they stay on the shelves. In fact, estimates say that every year the parent company of the…