Today I’ve completed 49 trips around the sun. When I was born, phones came attached to the wall, there were three channels and TV was mostly black-and-white (50% color TV penetration in the US didn’t happen until the middle 1970s). … Continue reading
But the guys that did, the exceptionally skilled wonderwomen and -men at The Oatmeal (consume at your own risk) deserve promotion for it. Here’s the article. (some swearing) It’s about this thing: Photo Credit I’m currently out of a car, myself, … Continue reading
Yesterday while channel-surfing during halftime of a particularly boring bowl game (I watch a lot of college football, and no, I’m not sorry), I happened on Noah, a movie I haven’t seen and will likely never see, because I’m not … Continue reading
It’s exhausting to live your life in such a way that you are constantly signaling to other people that they should value you. It’s much harder to do everything with one eye on everyone else, to see what they think … Continue reading
Passion burns hot. It also burns out. I’ve written on this before, in terms of relationships, but it applies to professional achievements as well. I just spent the weekend with a group of undeniably passionate people, spending hundreds of dollars … Continue reading
This is New Years Day, for me. Seriously. I actually demarcate my year in four bits. July 1 is my birthday, so that’s a logical. Christmas/New Years is a given, because that’s the break at the end of a hard … Continue reading
This will be short. I’m only blogging because I promised myself I would. See, this is almost a week off for me. I only have 53 hours of scheduled time this week, where last week was in the high 60s, so … Continue reading
A certain candidate that I refuse to name–this is really an admission, as I will say “Voldemort” any time–has sparked a national debate about civility and decorum, tolerance and accommodation. It’s a good conversation to have, and I am a small … Continue reading
I don’t always post on Groundhog Day, but when I do, it’s a post about what I’d do with eternity. This. This is what I’d do. I’d get up at 5:30 and play basketball (yes, at 47, after breaking my … Continue reading
I’ve posted already on one recent death, and though I felt like I probably wouldn’t have anything to say about David Bowie–though, seriously, he was great in Labyrinth–but I can’t help writing just a short note about the wonderful, amazing, … Continue reading