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 [...]

No, the title of the post signifies absolutely nothing, except the fact that I feel capricious. (Of course, it also seriously reduces the quality of the archive search feature going forward, but who gives a turkey.) I’ve got about half an hour before a couple of friends get here (bearing an Xbox 360 [...]

While we were in Miami Beach last week, some random tune jumped into my head, and I started whistling it without realizing what I was doing. It just so happened that it was the opening bars of “Through a Truck/Airport Chase” from Stu Phillips’ Knight Rider score. My dad looks at me and [...]

Here we are in Orlando, and it’s beautiful — sunny and warm, with a brisk breeze blowing to keep the temperatures mild. The drive here was uneventful, except to say that it was like driving through bug soup. The Florida “love bugs” are in season this week, and it was a veritable hailstorm [...]

It’s one of those infernal in-jokes that no one but my friends and I will get. A long time ago, just as Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was getting popular, I doodled up a fake advertisement for a product sure to take America by storm: A Rene Auberjonois autographed toothbrush. Mr. Auberjonois, for [...]

“Yes we all need someone we can bleed on…”
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of driving out to BFE to get my first glimpse at the new house of my (and Chief Oddball’s) best buddy, Reaper. Of course, since the house is a bit of a work-in-progress, this was no open house; I was expecting to [...]

Random bloggage is imminent. All hands abandon ship.
So here it is, Friday evening, and I’m about to sit down to a meal of home-cooked chicken fricassee. It’s the (welcome) end of another work week, during which I got a lot done and learned a good deal in the process. This weekend I’m [...]

Another work week come and gone (although it looks like I’ll still be working tomorrow), and with that, Apple and I are now approaching the last few days of our excursion to Thailand.
It’s been a good few days. At work, we’re close to completion on our big new product version, the new user interface [...]