Apr 3, 2011 • comments(0)

Putting my sister into words is difficult on my most eloquent days, as the breadth of her compassion, personality, and wit defies description. This scene from 500 Days of Summer comes close, though.

Mar 18, 2011 • comments(0)

This was possibly the best debate to come out of the Hans Gruber Memorial Exceptional Minds Foundation. Five years have passed, and I still think we made the right decision. Your name is Hadley Lurke, and you are a long-time CPA working for an international shipping firm based in New England. You love your job, and you are damned good ...

Mar 12, 2011 • comments(2)

Tonight, I will be drinking heavily, and drinking alone--all under the watchful eye of the webcam. First off--yes, I shamelessly ripped the title concept off of Scott Pilgrim vs The World, which shamelessly ripped it off many great stories before it. It's a fantastic movie, and soundtrack, and score, and cast. You should buy and love them all immediately. As ...

May 10, 2010 • comments(0)

Beware the words of the fallen, the bitter, and the unsuccessful, for their only comfort is to see us fail. "Fear, panic, and mayhem gripped Google yesterday as employees saw their fortunes vanish before their eyes." This article, published by Daya Baran of Webguild.com, is depressingly malicious and painfully ill-informed; in fact, the blind anti-Google bias is so strong that it makes ...

Apr 11, 2010 • comments(0)

Want to see something disgusting? Try buying a Droid online. Verizon Wireless has thrown their lot in with Mastercard Securecode, a feature that requires you to input all your credit card information a second time--after the checkout process is all but completed. You can hit "Cancel" at the end of the process, but then Verizon's checkout goes ...

Apr 7, 2010 • comments(0)

Ze Frank's Twitter links delight me on a regular basis, but it's not every day that he offers upgrades of his own products. ScribblerToo, a Paint-like Flash application written by Mario Klingmann, takes doodling to the next level by connecting lines as you draw. It may not sound like much, but the effect lends an amazing depth to ...

Feb 2, 2010 • comments(0)

Disheveled, bleary-eyed, pajama-clad. I fumble with my glasses as I pad into the living room. I should work out. I should check my email. I should brush my teeth. Email wins, as always. I sit, click, read. Two new Twitter followers. A question from a client. Sale on Viagra. Lost! Time slips by like a beautiful stranger in a crowd. There's plenty, ...

Dec 30, 2009 • comments(0)

Come, said my soul, Such verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one,) That should I after return, Or, long, long hence, in other spheres, There to some group of mates the chants resuming, (Tallying Earth's soil, trees, winds, tumultuous waves,) Ever with pleas'd smile I may keep on, Ever and ever yet the verses owning--as, first, I here and now Signing for Soul and ...