I don't let AI write for me. Clumsy and messy though I may be at times, I'm still worlds better at expressing myself than the chatbots are. Curated from blogs, social posts, sketchbooks, Google Docs, and brewing thoughts, here's a collection of essays, dialogues, and notes on parenting, design, AI, and the creative life.
Featured Essay
But why?
When someone is lost in a conversation, you can see it on their face before they say anything. A text box just can't show you that.
On October 1, we at Tavus previewed Griffin-Lite, an AI you talk with over live video. It listens while it talks, it pays attention to your face and your pauses as well as your words, and it answers with its own voice, face, and timing. In a short study, 26 of the 54 people who…
Feb 20, 2026 · bluesky
Advise without doing while your octogenarian parents set up a Yubikey, I dare you ↗
Nov 8, 2025 · bluesky
The song that broke the timeline. Merging bluegrass, rap, religion, trains, magical thinking, global awareness, pianos, vocal fry, sick bass lines, and simple good will, Billy Joel's 1973 cut "Travelin' Prayer" endures as a musical record of the moment our universe was destroyed ↗
Oct 31, 2025 · bluesky
CHECK YOUR KID'S CANDY!! I just found an asteroid headed straight toward Earth in my kid's Charleston Chew ↗
Aug 21, 2025 · bluesky
Arsonist firefighter and community whose homes he set ablaze agree to terms for the fire's partial extinguishment ↗
If you don't fall for something, you'll stand for anything. ↗
Jul 5, 2025 · bluesky
Which religion gives you the most credit for being the one who always stays up late to re-clean the 13x9" Pyrex dish? ↗
Jun 11, 2025 · bluesky
the locker room at my local Y is a 600 sq ft cautionary tale about lingering too long in the intersection of male middle age and whiteness ↗
Jun 4, 2025 · bluesky
[the surprise gut punch of singing along to literally any vulnerable song you know while commuting to your soulless job during a solid midlife crisis] ↗
Mar 22, 2025 · bluesky
Terrifiance is a non word my daughter just worded and I'm writing it down because I need even the little wins these days ↗
Feb 14, 2025 · bluesky
If I wanted to hear your every burp, fart, and thought, I'd just follow you on LinkedIn ↗
Feb 11, 2025 · bluesky
Jackfruit was sent here by Satan to poison our blissful relationship with fruit ↗
Feb 6, 2025 · bluesky
explaining thinking models: you know when you're at mcdonalds and want to order and the person at the register says, "the customer seems interested in ordering food. i'll start by welcoming them to mcdonalds and asking if i can take their order," and you say big mac and fries and they say "next i'll ↗
Jan 20, 2025 · bluesky
What you can do right now in case you were wondering is you can watch Barack Obama's inaugural addresses on C-Span 2, it's like a little kale and pepita amuse bouche before being forced to gorge on rotten bone marrow til you die, go on, it'll help with that tummy ache ↗
Jan 17, 2025 · bluesky
Imagine if a single design lead at Tesla had had to live with a Model 3 prototype in a snowy climate without a garage for just one day. Completely different car. ↗
Dec 31, 2024 · bluesky
Maybe you're in your fifties but like me you're still cool, young at heart. Here's a recipe you'll appreciate. A variation on the classic Orange Julius:
1 tbsp benefiber
.5 tbsp miralax
.5 tbsp metamucil
1 packet emergen-c
some tap water, who are you trying to impress?
Just drink it boomer ↗
Dec 5, 2024 · bluesky
I'd use Siri voice dictation for things like texting, emailing and taking personal notes if only it were pro-Oxford comma. ↗
Dec 1, 2024 · bluesky
You know what you never hear about, is when people get scathed ↗
Nov 30, 2024 · bluesky
I'd have considered becoming a surgeon way more seriously if I'd known setting up a new turntable were in my future ↗
Nov 29, 2024 · bluesky
Look who came back for another season of surveillance acceptance training! ↗
Ever tried to delete an Instagram account? It's a 10-step process, requires your password, and after step 10 your account is "scheduled for deletion"… in 30 days.
I can buy an arsenal of guns in a fraction of that time, and with far less friction, in my home state of Pennsylvania. ↗
Nov 8, 2024 · bluesky
I recently discovered my wife has a playlist called "Chill at home" which is 9 minutes long. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. ↗
May 10, 2023 · bluesky
Running list of who just lost their job
Artists
Designers
Photographers
Editors
Writers
Filmers
Programmers
Math doers
Translators
Spreadsheet experts
Teachers
Unicorns
Ducks with lips
Ducks without lips
Lips
... ↗
May 5, 2023 · bluesky
A fifth of mayo is an awful lot of mayo. Be safe out there today. ↗
My partner and I have a deal: I'll deal with spiders, vermin, car maintenance, all home repairs, income, travel arrangements, cocktails at happy hour, laundry, gardening, cooking, cleaning, and kid bedtime - and she'll deal with wasps that get in the house. ↗
Apr 16, 2023 · bluesky
Olive oil comes from olives. Not true for baby oil. ↗
Mar 4, 2023 · bluesky
When some people talk about a carrot and stick approach to motivating other people, I'm like really? A carrot? That's like just an edible stick ↗
We were on our way to Jim's house so Grace could play with Jim's daughter Anna. She'd finished her last day of a one-week day camp called "The Best Week of Summer" at the local Episcopal church, and I was using the few minutes we had together in the car to ask her about it. We…
Grace: Mommy, will you come in the bathroom? Jul: Why, honey? Is everything ok?
Aug 21, 2019 · x
Parenting is the process of convincing yourself that you’re guiding children toward adulthood as they slide away into an independence of their own design.
I'm still trying to envision the looks on everyone's faces. Last night, I met my wife and our two-year-old daughter for dinner after work. I met them in the parking lot, and when they got out of the car and I was greeting them, my wife told our daughter Grace to tell me the…
Grace: Mommy, me want my cheese! Jul: I have some cheese for you, just let me get you strapped in.
May 2, 2018 · x
So excited and proud. My team just published our Conversation Design guidelines at
Learn the fundamentals of conversation design and make your own agent. SUPER fun stuff!
Mar 11, 2018 · x
If, when I was younger, you would have told me that one of the great embarrassments in life would one day be when AI mistakenly corrected something I had typed into my pocket super computer, I would have been able to get to work email address and email address email and email add
Mar 7, 2018 · x
Humans: So, your AI is laughing, unprompted, at users. Should we be concerned?
Amazon: We're working on a fix.
Humans: Great but why did this happen?
Amazon: [creepy laughing]
Humans: Um WTF?
Amazon: WORKING... [grunting] ON... [gasping] A FIX... [releasing final breath]
My Twitter homepage is so algorithmed, I literally can no longer use it to see the things people I follow recently posted. My Tumblr dashboard is dead except for the "Rich Dads Pittsburgh Edition" video ad that loads every time I scroll to the bottom of the page and invoke the…
Because we are having a baby, Julie and I are taking birth classes. Last night's class was covering how to handle it if you give birth in, for instance, a car or the woods as opposed to a hospital. One of the bullet points in our book said to "wrap the umbilical cord and placenta…
A couple of years ago, I embarked on an experiment. I created some rules for my three boys, allowing them to curse in certain contexts and with a few conditions. A very few conditions. You can read the complete story if you'd like to, but the long and short of it is that as long…
Oct 18, 2015 · tumblr
Because nothing enhances your timeline-based UI like dismembering the timeline. ↗
“I normally wake up at 5:00 AM.” My son Jack, who is 15 and a sophomore in high school, said this to me last night between dinner and bedtime and you know I ought to be forgiven for it having barely registered because, last I checked, this one woke up no earlier than 7:00 and…
I got to the gym at 7:30 this morning, put my things in a locker, stretched, and at 7:45, I got a treadmill. As I climb on and start pushing buttons, the woman on the next treadmill pulls out one earbud, looks over, and asks, “Is it hot in here?” “What’s that,” I ask. “Is it hot…
Jan 29, 2015 · tumblr
I guess users were really clamoring for Tumblr to switch the locations of the Close and the Post buttons. Number one feature-request, I bet. “I don’t care what other features have to be cut to make it happen, we’re swapping those buttons’ placement in Q1. Top fucking priority.” ↗
Jan 26, 2015 · tumblr
Good news, if you’ve always wondered what it would feel like to stuff ten bottles’ worth of champagne into a tiny capsule and then explode it in your mouth: Effervescent fucking cough drops. ↗
When my sister and I were really little, my parents had a brown corduroy sleeper sofa in the TV room where we spent as much of our free time as we were allowed. This is the room wherein I watched Soul Train and Saturday Night Live, that movie Chariots of Fire, Happy Days, Laverne…
Because of inflamed retinal vasculature in my right eye, my vision has been deteriorating for several months. The answer to the first question is, “Yes, I’m getting appropriate medical treatment.” The answers to the next n questions are, “We’re still trying to pinpoint the…
A few years back, when I was still in the Acquisition phase of my life, I created one of them niche tumblrs for a series of photographs I was taking that I thought might be able to find its audience through the magic of social media. The photographs were of the shoes, and…
1. It's a blender so don't put your hands in it. 1. It's red like lipstick or firetrucks. 1. It is powerful and efficient beyond your wildest dreams. Sorry, you can't even imagine. 1. It is ridiculously easy to clean. I mean you blend hot water and soap in it and BAM it's clean.…
My car needs an oil change. It has 6500 miles on it. For weeks, I’ve been wondering when it would need its first oil change. The manual doesn’t say anything, I logged onto a website that doesn’t say anything, nothing says anything. This weekend, an orange icon depicting a wrench…
More to the point, choose food that takes a long time to chew. Chew it and chew it. Chew it with your mouth open if you have to. If an “adult” gives you any guff, give ‘em the finger in return, and keep on chewing. Sure, eating foods that take forever to chew means you’re getting…
Ben asked me if it was quieter than usual after the kids did the switch from our house to their mom’s this weekend. I told him it wasn’t - at least not to the ear - and, to the best of my knowledge, that’s true. But in all honesty, it’s not like I had taken any readings. For the…
Maybe my favorite concert I’ve ever attended was when my friend Bill dropped in to my Chicago studio around dinnertime one night in the early 90’s and asked if I wanted to go try to get tickets to David Byrne’s symphonic performance across the street. I had no idea David Byrne…
The guard on the first floor of our building stopped me this morning in the lobby, as I was humming, about to board the elevator. "You just reminded me of someone I used to work with years ago," he said. "An old, black man from the South who used to say whistling and humming was…
One weekend afternoon when I was a teenager, a friend named Alan was riding his moped and wiped out in the intersection at Lovers and Hillcrest. He was in the street – down but still alive – when an older lady who apparently hadn’t seen the accident struck him with her vehicle…
What you probably think of as Pittsburgh is actually a patchwork of 90-something mostly tiny municipalities, each with its own police force, fire department, and local government. Whereas “The City of Pittsburgh” has a population of only about 300,000, the greater Pittsburgh area…
Let me tell you a little about being a ward of the state: You wake up whenever you want to. Maybe the dog farted, maybe you need to brush your teeth. Who can tell? The coffee’s cold by the time you get to it, but you figure that’s why God created microwaves, so you remove the…
There was a time in my life when I had a fairly constant awareness of lots of things for which I was grateful. It was one of the happiest times of my life, yet, at least superficially and by comparison to life today, it looked worse: I was figuring out how to be a single-parent…
US Airways website: Welcome to US Airways! How can I help you today? Me: Yes hello I have 70,000 miles and would like to book 2 tickets from Pittsburgh to San Francisco.
American English varies from British English in so many ways, sometimes you can’t understand what those crazy Brits are even saying LOL. Here are five common differences you should know: The expression, “let’s table that,” means exactly the opposite in America than it does in…
We were nearing the end of a long day. Up at 6:00, servile 'til the late summer sundown. Only two hours to go. We were driving home from Alex's trumpet lesson, listening to They Might Be Giants. Like you do. "Particle Man" came on. Is he a dot, or is he a speck, When he's…
Sep 1, 2013 · tumblr
Pigeon in the airport. I repeat PIGEON IN THE AIRPORT! ↗
So, it’s been about two weeks since Julie and I started running. Our regularity isn’t perfect, but it isn’t bad. We’re on track to have averaged four times per week for three weeks before going on vacation next week. It’s mostly been drudgery – although I have loved the way my…
Listen, I bought this gun because there's a squirrel eating the apples in my apple tree, and even though I'm trying all the non-lethal alternatives I can to dissuade him from encroaching on my food supply, I still maintain a backup plan that, should those fail, I will kill him,…
These pencils are the best pencils ever. It's simply phenomenal how much like the Old Masters I have come to draw in the week since I bought these pencils. Highly recommended!!!
There really are a lot of pages in this book. That's a great feature for a sketchbook, because the number of pages is directly related to how many drawings you can make inside of it. You will have this sketchbook for a long time.
My house is old. Most of the floorboards creak. And I love this. It fits my “perpetually scratching an itch" personality to a tee. I can stop in virtually any spot in my house and rock my weight slowly, back and forth, and create something damn near musical and absolutely unique,…
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, gather 'round and witness as I reveal one of the heretofore most closely guarded secrets in my platinum-plated creative toolbox. That's right, folks, what I'm about to show you can't be learned in any schools, and you won't find it in stores.…
Jul 17, 2013 · x
Perpetuating awful stereotypes under the guise of research. Or as we in the UX profession like to call it, "crafting personas."
Julie's birthday was on Sunday. Months prior, she'd been asking for an iPhone 4 for her birthday. "I'm ready to become an Internet addict like you!" she'd say, and I'd look up from liking a "Yo dawg, I herd you liked liking posts" post and nod affirmatively but quickly and return…
There are three things in this life you should never look directly at: a solar eclipse, a Gorgon, and the barrel of a loaded gun. One Friday night in 1992 in Chicago, my friend Brett and I had been out drinking and were about to call it a night. Even though I was an art student,…
"See that motorcycle in front of us?" Jack had made scarce with his words for most of the car ride. Mornings were like molasses for him. Rougher on him than on either of his brothers, and definitely rougher than for his rise-and-shine pops. It wasn't unusual for Jack to keep monk…
My house was built at the end of the Great Depression. It is charming but small, and is missing a few things considered essential in most modern homes. Topping that list of things is a shower, of which my house has zero unless you count the thing someone rigged up in the basement…
If I were a creature from another planet, and I wanted to learn about human men, I wouldn’t read our literature or study our television programs. I would hang out in public restrooms, because that’s where shit is the most real. Men are more vulnerable than they let on. Human…
You'll always remember the first time you hear your kid say the f-word. Like the Space Shuttle Challenger exploding or the falling of the Berlin Wall or the morning of 9/11, it leaves something permanent pressed into the soft tissue between the two ears that apprehend it. The…
Hello and I would like you to meet my sister. Her name is Megan, and we grew up together and she turned out just fine. She is a therapist in Austin, Texas, which is as good a place as any to do therapy, I guess. Last month, she called me with some questions about how to vet…
It helps to understand that Alex normally bounces out of bed like a Tigger. On school days, I wake him up at 6:15 and it’s like there are springs under his pillow, ejecting him into me with an, “Okay Dad, good morning,” and a ready smile. On weekends, these days, I get to sleep…
It’s not like I thought Alex would believe in the tooth fairy forever, nor would I want him to. What bugged me about his passage to disillusionment was how clumsily it was unfolding. Not just earlier yesterday morning, but four months ago too. I grew up watching the A-Team, and I…
Last night, a few of us good friends and our wives and kids got together to watch a sporting event and drink beer and eat chicken wings. And, as we good friends are wont to do, we got to talking about things where our opinions were far clearer and better-developed than our…
My youngest son, Alex lost a tooth yesterday. Maybe it will have been his last. Maybe he’ll lose more. How am I supposed to know? I’m not the dentist. Exactly two weeks earlier, he had lost another tooth. The upper canine from the other side. He forgot to put it under his pillow,…
I started getting heartburn as a kid. My mom, also a chronic heartburn-sufferer, had me take Tums. It was what she did. Her bathroom cabinet was like Costco for Tums. We had an inexhaustible supply. Her father had also suffered from unshakable heartburn. I remember we’d visit him…
[A minor] When my son first became interested in guitar lessons, I told him he could forget it. No son of mine was going to become a hippie crooner complaining about every injustice the world had to offer. No way. But, being the sensitive father I am, I relented, and soon he…
I GAVE THIS COFFEE MAKER 4 OUT OF 5 STARS NOT 5 OUT OF 5 STARS BECAUSE STAINLESS STEEL CARAFES HAVE TO BE CLEANED OUT WAY TOO OFTEN AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED BUT SERIOUSLY I READ ALL THE REVIEWS OF THIS COFFEE MAKER BEFORE I ORDERED THIS COFFEE MAKER ON AMAZON AND I ORDERED IT…
Yes! Instantly, whenever I turn on that particular type of sprinkler, I’m flooded with memories of the Texas Summer heat, huge wasps and huger dragonflies, two-a-day football practices, swimming pools, sunburns, and constant lawn-mowing. Every single time. I can still make the…
Yesterday, I decided I want to be finished having to choose between waking up to crappy coffee already made and spending 20 minutes every morning making good coffee. This is America, damnit, and this is exactly the type of tough problem Americans solve. Since the best coffee I…
Lord of the Flies is alright I guess. I mean, I know it's a classic, but the plot is distinctly lacking in so many ways, you feel like it should be updated for today's readers. For instance, there are no touchscreen interfaces OF ANY KIND in this book. Nobody has a camelback or…
If you’ve ever sat down with your spouse and sorted through a bazillion wedding photo proofs to select finals to be printed, you know the activity can be the first real test on the strength of your marital union. Amen, I say. But there’s levity, or at least rumors of levity, in…
If you are hard of hearing, I SAID IF YOU CAN'T HEAR TOO GOOD, this phone will meet you halfway. Here's the deal: First of all, this phone's ringer is ungodly loud. I'm not sure how else to say it. If I were running a retirement home, though, I would install this phone's ringer…
My wife thought she would hate any kind of reading experience that didn't involve holding a pulpy mass of words literally in her hands. She thought she would hate a Kindle like she hates iPhones and the Internet. She thought she would look with scorn upon this monstrous…
Seriously, this book is way too scary! I gave it to my 10-year-old to read and he was scared because of all the totalitarianism LOL! DO NOT READ! UPDATE: My 10-year-old was not, in fact, scared by this book. He was provoked by its critique of totalitarianism, however, as…
Everyone needs outlets, right? One of the secret benefits of my line of work is that it can be surprisingly entertaining. To myself. Cheekier wireframes don’t generally make their way into clients’ hands. I kind of think that’s a shame. Wireframes also don’t really show all that…
I just moved my bar from a lovely display position in the dining room to a cabinet high above the microwave. I had two reasons. Firstly, my two oldest boys are 11 and 12, going on 16 and 13, respectively. Because of their family history, they should probably never drink. Julie…
Before the Ambien, with its promise to round away all the rough edges of my jetlag experience, kicks completely in, I’m gonna make a pronouncement. I might make a number of pronouncements in the wake of Julie’s and my wedding and subsequent two weeks in Bali, Indonesia, and those…
Sep 1, 2011 · x
Want to gain followers?
Do what you love, have fun talking about it.
Want to lose followers?
Do what you love, have fun talking about it.
I’m part of that class of people that has to work evenings often enough, because that’s what salaried professionals do. We send our kids to bed, tuck them in, come back downstairs to our tools and props, and we get back to work on that thing that we’re supposed to be presenting…
Jul 27, 2011 · x
I forget. At a formal dinner, on which side of your plate does your phone go?
Peter Falk is perhaps best known for his star role in The Player, in which he played a private investigator who’s always saying, “Oh, and one more thing…” like my dad used to always do when he thought he was about to bust me for smoking weed or whatever. But Falk was more than a…
Listen, this stuff smells AMAZING. And when you get onto an elevator while wearing it, everyone will agree. No one will doubt your refined, gentlemanly masculinity when you smell like such a sublime mixture of your grandfather, vetiver, and saddle soap. THAT'S SOCIAL MEDIA.
Mar 15, 2011 · x
Does anyone remember the URL for that site "Let Me Google That For You" or know how I could find it?
This afternoon, though, I was standing at my front door, looking across the street as Alex (left) and Jack (not pictured) walked up the hill from the bus stop toward home. In the fastest, most helpless instant I could have imagined, Alex ran out into the street without looking -…
Wholesome Family Breakfast at Ritters Give 50¢ apiece to the kids. Maintain tight smile through entirety of The Doors’ “The End” and pretend the neighboring diners’ facial expressions are in no way related to the kids’ musical selection. Through three plays.
Conner, who’s supposed to be sick, comes running through the kitchen from the basement, Jack hot on his tail. “Start humping!” yells Jack. Alex is right behind him. Conner stops, plants his feet, and begins moving his hips in a way that looks like he’s trying to churn invisible…
3 oz gin (something dry, okay?) 1 oz vodka (something clean, alright?) ½ oz Kina Lillet Shake it with ice to make it really cold, and strain into a martini glass with a well twisted twist of lemon. It’s not as clean as you’ll see it looking in the James Bond movies, but there’s a…
This morning, I found this in one of those folders that should be renamed “rabbit hole” and given a date every so often, when I was looking for something I need at work. It’s a four-year-old picture of Alex hugging me, his arms tight enough around my neck to make the lights dim.…
Okay, I upheld my end of the bargain. I grew this creepstache all the way through the end of the month. When I started, 30 days ago, I thought growing a moustache was a ridiculously easy way to raise money for prostate cancer research. I mean, seriously. No running. But, back…
“Who wants to tell ghost stories!” shouted Conner, as the six of us started out on our evening walk into the wilderness. I elbowed Julie, who got my drift and volunteered. “Exactly ten years ago today, on a cold Thanksgiving night just like tonight, the Allegheny Massacre shocked…
I barely slept a wink last night because I was struck with a horrible fear of dying, and once I got it in my head and started obsessing over desperate-final-moments scenarios, I couldn’t get it out. So even when I fell asleep for 10 minutes here, 5 minutes there, I dreamt about…
If “art” didn’t serve double duty as a superlative term of praise (i.e.: “See that ass? That’s art, brah.” “Brain surgery is an art.” “The Art of Loving”), I wonder if we wouldn’t have a far easier time defining and identifying it. My favorite explanation of art was delivered to…
Oct 18, 2010 · x
Social Media (n.): The exchange of your life's potential for the belief that everything you do or say is meaningful to a crowd of strangers.
The piano arrived yesterday while I was at work. By 7:00 PM, Julie had given all three boys introductory instruction on the proper treatment of such a gem. For close to two hours thereafter, she sat with Alex, teaching him the layout of the keyboard, fingering, 5-note scales,…
With so much recent ado about culinary self-improvement and cocktailian craftsmanship, it seems to this mixed up husband-to-be and father of three that a crucial field of knowledge has been left dangerously unaddressed, and it just wouldn’t be socially medially dutiful of me not…
One simply cannot overstate the comfort of the Keen Portsmouth. They're like mansions for your feet, and that's just the beginning of the hyperbole. The fact is, these shoes are salvation for your feet. Salvation from discomfort of any kind. From pinching, from corns and…
May 14, 2010 · x
Writing a half-baked analogy is like shaving a chicken. By the time you realize how dull the ice scraper is, there's no way to save this.
tiffehr: Google Maps caught Chester County, PA in its mid-winter color scheme. When colonists moved into the land, apparently nobody felt like using a carving out a field with fewer than 5 sides. Four sides must have been too English. Before living in Pittsburgh, I lived in…
Feb 23, 2010 · x
Bitter. Angry. Passive aggressive. Oh sure, pick four. You would.
Jan 27, 2010 · x
If there's a confusing double negative that can't not go unused, I've done nothing if not neglected to exclude it anywhere but here.
Hello, Saturday. My doorbell rang at 7:20 this morning. Five times, that I heard, but maybe more. See, because I was sleeping, I’m not sure how many times it rang before suddenness launched me from slumber to the door. It was Jack, standing on the porch like a hobo, sleeping bag…
Jan 5, 2010 · x
Capitualization: (n.) THE ACT OF SUCCUMBING TO THE PRESSURE TO TYPE THINGS IN ALL CAPS.
It’s not that I won’t miss Favrd. Discovering Favrd stimulated important synapses that needed to be stimulated, enriched my Twitter experience, and introduced me to new friends - from a pool of talented, thoughtful, intelligent people I previously had no idea existed. How could…
Rather, it’s been a long week. As a divorced father of three kids, I’m a full-time parent every other week. This, of course, is in addition to my other full-time job - the careery one that, you know, pays the bills and ensures my family’s continued survival. So on those weeks…
These things promised to replace human cashiers. We took this in any of numerous ways, depending on things like how we felt about such jobs, our level of mistrust for technology, our love or hatred for our local grocery store staff, etc. Regardless of where we came down in the…
Sep 30, 2009 · x
I honestly don't get why anyone's arguing about paying for software when you can have any app you want FOR FREE
by building it yourself.
When I was young, I had a friend named Wilson. He was one of three boys. When one of them hit the other, the punishment was that their dad held the offending child from behind while the victim was encouraged to punch his attacker in the gut. A while back, after an episode of…
About a decade ago, I had a thriving small business doing website design, Flash development, and QTVR tours. I’m not entirely proud of the mix, but it was 1999, and these things were the shit in 1999. I was living in historic Savannah, Georgia, and QTVR tour shoots were lucrative…
Jon: Why can't you get apples from vending machines? Why does it have to be all junk food? Me: Apples from vending machines? Why don't you just move to Russia?
Jul 11, 2009 · x
[Shake]
"There is nothing to undo."
Nothing to undo? Oh iPhone, you and I have lived entirely different lives.
Geoff Barnes: This county fair has it all though. Monster trucks, chicken judging, ponies, rides, champion chainsaw sculptors, cotton candy. Geoff Barnes: I'm onna do me some chicken judging.
Jun 22, 2009 · x
Waste Management just told me that, to protect the landfills from contamination, they don't pick up dirt.
Go ahead, reread that.
I'll wait.
Leave it to Tony’s inspiring writing to reach into a forgotten corner of my brain and pull out something I’d been meaning to jot down. You ever go outside in the early morning, as the sun’s coming up, and listen carefully to birdsong? I do it almost every morning. Sometimes I try…
rrrrred: What is the most difficult thing you’ve ever given up? What did that feel like? Was it worth it? I want you to understand that I don’t intend for my answer to be snarky, and I don’t feel cynical. The most difficult thing I’ve ever had to give up was blind hope in my…