I knew a kid in high school that would pass the time by signing his name. Just writing autograph after autograph. He didn’t do it artistically or as vandalism. He just did it repeatedly…
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A Very Boston Conversation
One morning I walking to work from the subway in Boston’s Financial District. As I arrived at one particular intersection, I saw a lean business man who was wearing sunglasses and looked rather tense. He started crossing the street as a car made a slow creep through the traffic light (which I couldn’t tell the… Continue reading A Very Boston Conversation
The mother who’s never met a child before
I’m walking into the subway station near my apartment, a reasonably rural part of Brooklyn at an off-hour for traveling into Manhattan (which exists from time to time during the week). I see a women standing in the turnstile, moving at a curiously slow pace through it…
Nerdy Currency
An amazing number of people look at me and correctly guess that I, “do something with computers.” That seems like a broad concept—most people “do something” with computers—but I know that they mean. It’s that I either work in IT or that I’m a programmer. So, I can’t really pretend I don’t seem nerdy but… Continue reading Nerdy Currency
Mashups, for words!
Lately, I’ve been obsessed with the concept of a portmanteau—cramming two words into one word, like “breakfast” and “lunch” forming “brunch.” It’s one of those terms I’ve heard from time to time but always forgot the name of. Well, no more! I can’t stop thinking about them now. Since I’ve started noticing portmanteaus, I keep… Continue reading Mashups, for words!
I choose you, Pokémon!
I’ve played a lot of the new videogame, Super Smash Bros. 3DS, lately. Recently, someone on the subway took great interest in it.
The Highest of All Domains
I’m a web guy, so I get lots of emails asking me to register more domains. Over the past year or so, “they” have been adding more and more top-level domains (TLDs) like .com, .org, .info, et cetera.