The Trick Is That There Is No Trick.
Now I'm not all I thought I'd be I always stayed around I've been as far as Mercy and Grand Frozen to the ground I can't stay here, and I'm…
A response to Zoë Keating’s post about YouTube
[I don't post comments on other people's blog posts much these days, because as we all know the comments section is usually the equivalent of the pit underneath the blog's…
Roasted Mango And Cheese Stuffed Bacon Wrapped Mini-Bell Peppers
As far as I know, this is my own invention, a sort of king-hell mashup of stuffed peppers and Sonoran hot dogs, which are perhaps the finest thing ever invented by…
Downbound Project
[Update: an official statement from the DTP says that 30 employees, or 10% of its staff, are being laid off, not 30%. However, it also gives the impression that many…
Help Me Get To Ferguson
[thermometer raised=2005 target=2000] I want to go to Ferguson, MO to cover the unfolding story there. But I can't do it without money -- I need expense money and, quite…
Everyone I know is brokenhearted.
All the genuinely smart, talented, funny people I know seem to be miserable these days. You feel it on Twitter more than Facebook, because Facebook is where you go to…
Untitled Notes Towards An Understanding.
Here's one thing we know, and know for sure: dumb matter and energy can become self-aware. How do we know? Because we know; because we are dumb matter and energy, and…
Insert Cliched Sheryl Crow Song Title Here.
I’ve spent the past week and a half in Yakima, Washington. It’s a town in Central Washington with a population of around 93,000 in the city itself and almost a…
If This Is Paradise, I Wish I Had A Lawnmower
I'm going to maybe expand this into an actual piece of journalism soon, but I just wanted to write down some thoughts here. Why do techies -- or, really, any…