Thursday, November 20, 2008
One of the great joys of Modern Digital Blogging is the ability to see exactly how many people are reading each blog entry, and, if they followed a link or a search result to get there, what that link or search result was.
Every day people are driven to my blog by the single post in [...]
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Per the helpful suggestion, I’ve attached the keyboard from my old, half-dead iMac DV — I knew there was a reason I was keeping it around.
Because the resulting configuration takes up so much vertical desk space, I’m considering a Rube Goldbergian setup where I will trigger the “h” on the (remotely located) iMac keyboard via [...]
Monday, November 10, 2008
Te letter between “g” and “i” in te alpabet as died on te keyboard of my iBook. I’ve been reduced to copying and pasting it from oter sources every time I want to use common words like “te” or “tis” or to write my last name (Pillips).
I’ve ad tis laptop for tree years now, and [...]
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Now is a time for post-partisanship and coming together. That being said… this video is a must-watch.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Over the course of the next week I have three improv shows, each of them completely different formats. Please come to all three shows and yell out “proctologist” when we ask for a suggestion.
1. Saturday, 10/18, 9pm @ The Creek in Long Island City, FREEEEEE!
My big improv army Caligula will perform with two other awesome [...]
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Last week somebody put up a little photocopied sign on my apartment building’s front door: BLOCK PARTY THIS SUNDAY.
At the bottom of the sign someone had scrawled a handwritten note: We get into trouble when we bbq.
I was away from the apartment all day on Sunday. When I returned at 11pm there were random, broken [...]
Banking with Chase was terrible. Every couple of months they’d screw up, and blame it on me. Eventually things would get straightened out, but not before several employees were given a chance to be rude and dismissive. The subtext was always, “Wow, we’re really scared that you’re going to be so dissatisfied that you’ll move [...]
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Do you know Sean Taylor? Do you know what he’s been doing every year since 2002? I’ll give you a hint: It involves eating at least one slice of pizza a day, every day in the month of October.
(In retrospect, that was an overly generous hint.)
I think Sean’s quest excites me for two main reasons:
1. [...]
Thursday, September 25, 2008
This afternoon at the corner bodega I saw a slightly frazzled Muslim woman who was looking after five or six energetic young children. She was wearing a tightly wrapped headscarf, and sticking out of the side of the headscarf was the lower half of a pink Motorola Razr. Though the phone was open, she did [...]