A dream, sort of.

May 8th, 2008 | Posted in Notebook

They finally finished Wikipedia. It was all set, done. I wondered if we would still need each other.



Seriously what the hell

February 9th, 2008 | Posted in News

I know, me too.

I’m working on just a couple of things that are taking some time, but hopefully they’ll be ready soon. I’m trying.

In the meantime, I am keeping my Goodreads very much up to date, and occasionally I do things over at the tumblr.

Stay with me.



Learn To Live With What You Can’t Rise Above

December 29th, 2007 | Posted in Elsewhere

A couple of super cool things about the internet lately:

  • If you missed the last Layer Tennis (like me!) you missed one of my favorite things that happened on the internet this year: commentator Josh Allen completely hijacked the entire competition. I won’t say the artwork the designers created was lacking, I’ll just say that Josh took charge of a very difficult situation. The art became the backdrop for his writing, and it was awesome to see that the writer win for once. Still the best in the biz, that guy.
  • If you’ve been around the internet for a certain length of time, then you know Joanna Vaught. Her new cookbook is out and it is awesome. It’s vegan, and I’m not vegan, and actually I don’t even like to cook, but it’s the most gorgeously designed cookbook I’ve ever seen, and the recipes are all super easy to make and don’t include weird ingredients you have never heard of. Everyone I’ve shown it to says it’s the best cookbook they’ve ever seen. Not even joking. I get to say I know the person who wrote it.


The Last Person On The Internet

December 28th, 2007 | Posted in Notebook

5:01 pm on the internet and once again I’m the last one here. Thanks guys. Thanks, blogosphere. So I turn off the printer, and I shut off the coffee maker (which no one else ever remembers to do), and I lock up and basically just do everything.

Seriously, every day you show up maybe by 10, then spend a couple of hours checking email and Facebook. Then you have a two hour lunch, and you insist that you need all the time because you have to take pictures of everything for Flickr, but come on guys, it’s just pizza and hamburgers. And then maybe, if your tummy feels OK and you’re not too distracted by YouTube, you bang out a couple of posts before ducking out right at 5. How is that fair. How is that helping.

Do you know how many lists of the Best Albums, Videos, Songs, and Logos So Far This Year we still have to write? Do you see, over by the fax machine, how big that pile of celebrity upskirts is getting? There are right now literally thousands of lifehacks going undocumented. Is that what you want?

Fine, whatever. I will make sure there are enough guesses about upcoming Apple products to get the internet started in the morning, but someone else is going to have to go through the Microsoft vs Google pile. I can’t be in charge of everything.

Oh but shoot did I remember to empty out the coffee maker? I can’t remember if I emptied it out or not. I think maybe I did? Or did I get distracted organizing the shelves where we keep the posts about funny t-shirts? Screw it, the internet can clean out its own coffee maker for once. I did plenty today. If half the bloggers get fired and replaced by robots tomorrow, that is not going to be my fault.



A dream where

December 27th, 2007 | Posted in Notebook

everything in the world is exactly the same, except that I wrote the song “Where Is My Mind.” The Pixies are still the ones who performed it and made it famous, I simply have the satisfaction of a job well done. I blog a lot less, enjoy time with my family.



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