I have a ton of stuff to say on so many different topics, there is absolutely no point in trying to name this post after any of them. So I’m going for the “mash-up” theme. This entry will be about anything and everything that’s come to mind over the last week or so, [...]

A big thunderstorm hit just after Apple got home from work. A few minutes later our power went out, and it’s still out. Sustained outages are actually pretty unusual around here, but we broke out the candles, took cold showers and are headed to bed. I’m able to post this thanks to my iPhone, and [...]

Another weekend come and gone. Felt like one day instead of two. That’s what can happen when you sleep till noon on your days off.
I’m rather pissed off at Comcast. I played a three-player game of Forza with Pooch and Reaper today over Xbox Live and kept getting disconnected. Then this evening, Apple was trying [...]

This year, the Major League Baseball season opened in Tokyo, as it has several times now over the last decade. But Furman Bisher of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution doesn’t like it. Why? Maybe because — to him — it flies in the face of baseball tradition. Or maybe it’s because the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in [...]

It was an interesting weekend.
I worked half a day on Saturday, doing “post-launch” tasks in the wake of getting the new websites online. On Saturday night, Apple and I watched a bunch of HDTV, including movies like Panic Room and Men In Black, just because. It was fun being lazy.
On Sunday we were [...]

Today was Apple’s birthday. For some time now, we’ve been planning a “shopping outing” to celebrate the occasion, and I even took the day off (with plans to work tomorrow instead) so we could enjoy it undisturbed. So as soon as we rolled out of bed this morning (at a leisurely time, I [...]

At 10:00 this morning, Google launched its Street View of Metro Detroit. For those who aren’t familiar, Street View is a special feature of Google Maps that lets you essentially “walk the streets” of a city. It features 360 degrees of still photographs taken every few yards along thousands of city streets, and [...]

In the last few days, my crushing burden of side work has largely fallen away. In fact, this whole week has wound up being less hectic, more manageable, yet productive at the same time. And, I’ve had the time — and peace of mind — necessary to accomplish a few personal things on [...]

I figure, at some point, life in America is going to reach critical mass.
What I mean is, eventually we’re all going to simply stop actually accomplishing anything, because all of our time will be spent chasing around and catching up. As technologies emerge that allow us to contact people instantly from anywhere, keep tabs [...]

Hey man — in a momentary fog of stupidity yesterday morning, I reset your email password and then attempted to notify you by email that I had changed it. Pretty smart, huh? So I set the password back to what I thought it was originally, but in retrospect, I’m not sure I got [...]