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.

• 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.

• Also: Pitchaya Sudbanthad is posting a story in his Facebook status updates. Best use of Facebook that I’ve seen yet. OK except for Scrabulous.

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.