Archive for February, 2011
makes perfect sense, twenty-odd years later
Quoth on facebook (hock, ptooie!) a person I dated once upon a time many, many moons ago: “Maybe If I was drunk I’d understand ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. The World’” Which spurred the following thought in my head: Well, that’s why things between us went the way they did… A mystery I never thought much about, […]
smart phone, one week in: novelty and paranoia
as I mentioned two posts ago, last weekend Colleen and upgraded our aged mobile phones, coming home with shiny new Samsung Vibrants running the android operating system. I’ve been using mine most of a week now, and have some thoughts: Overall, I like it. As with all fun new toys, it’s very shiny and very […]
weekend felt long
Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone. While I’ve already delivered my personal greetings personally, since it’s the day anyway, and since I’m here and all, I’ll offer more public greetings to my lovely wife, who, if I’m doing the math right, I shared what might constitute a first unofficial “date” with 18 years ago tomorrow. That fact […]
revolutionary thought for the day
Courtesy of Thomas Paine, journalist, propagandist, and one of the “Fathers” of the American Revolution: Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. A valid and worthy thought, and one that goes completely against the context in which Paine tends to be invoked these days. Just because some guy wrote it […]
sound and fury LEDs, signifying nothing
I thought a bit about writing something about my reaction to the “spectacle” surrounding this year’s Super Bowl, though it seems, as usual, while I was dithering about in the gym and looking into a regular Monday night d20 game last evening, Amanda beat me to it. And, she pretty much mirrors what I was […]