One day, years ago, I wrote the following, stream-of-consciousness style, immediately upon waking. Something about crapping out a sort of story out of my subconscious while still in a half-asleep daze makes me smile. Here it is:
She wore a robe of burgundy and gold. Her home was made of felt and porcelain, satin and ceramic. [...]
Filed under: personal, thoughts, writing on May 25th, 2008 | No Comments »
When I learned that water polo was not, in fact, an underwater version of regular polo, I became very disappointed. Gone were the visions I’d had of players riding atop oxygen tank-wearing horses at the bottom of an Olympic size swimming pool and swinging at a ball around the pool’s surface ever so slowly with [...]
Filed under: humor, thoughts on April 30th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Gallup posted their latest polling results on overall U.S. satisfaction yesterday. Here is full story, and here is their chart:
The first thing I noticed looking at this chart was that, lo and behold, satisfaction increased during Ronald Reagan’s and Bill Clinton’s terms, and decreased during both George H.W. Bush’s and George W. Bush’s terms. An [...]
Filed under: politics, thoughts on April 15th, 2008 | No Comments »
With so much tragedy in the world, it’s easy to become jaded, and unless you can identify with a particular story, these tragedies are easy to ignore. The only news story that’s ever haunted me was the triple-murder at a Starbucks in D.C. that happened during the summer of 1997.
The other day, I saw an [...]
Filed under: personal, thoughts, work on April 14th, 2008 | No Comments »
When George W. Bush’s presidency began, I was young enough for my complaints to be dismissed as stemming from my being young and inexperienced in life. Back then, I worried that the United States was approaching decline; that she could no longer support her people with the jobs needed to keep growing; that without immediately [...]
Filed under: politics, thoughts on April 5th, 2008 | No Comments »
Earlier tonight…
Louise: “Your research is just a bunch of copy-pasted stuff”
Me: “Fair use, motherfucker!”
Filed under: humor, thoughts on February 5th, 2008 | No Comments »
Can you build a brand or forge an identity across many disjointed pieces of content and references across the Internet?
Anyone for whom the Internet has been a major part of life over the years surely has numerous posts and references immortalized throughout the Internet, and yet, what good is any of it if you can’t [...]
Filed under: technology, thoughts on July 14th, 2006 | No Comments »
I said recently that I thought 2007 could be the year of location-based services. But, after reading this WIRED article on O’Reilly Media’s Where 2.0 conference, I think it might just come even sooner.
It started with numerous “mashup” websites, mixing up Google Maps with other sites’ data feeds to provide new and novel functionality, such [...]
Filed under: technology, thoughts on June 19th, 2006 | No Comments »
The U.S. Constitution ought to be ammended to explicitly include the right to privacy.
That is all.
technorati tags: constitution, privacy, politics
digg this story / add to del.icio.us
Filed under: thoughts on May 22nd, 2006 | No Comments »
Yes, I’m a staunch liberal, and I think the Bush administration’s second term could be the best thing that ever happened to us, and the worst thing that ever happened to the Bush administration. Wipe that shocked look off your face and read on to see why.
During the 2004 presidential elections, as Democrats were divided [...]
Filed under: politics, thoughts on May 31st, 2005 | No Comments »