Category: Journal

In which I choose to not let an entire calendar year pass without a single post.

The story written, but never used, for the Big Fat Geek Podcast about my experience with participating in a 35th anniversary viewing of Star Trek II, transformed into this blog post.

In which I tell the tale of moving to a new job after 25 years.

Before I get into the meat of this blog post, I wish to firmly establish something. I do not believe it makes any difference whether someone pronounces “GIF” with a hard or soft G....

Many of you who read this post will look at the title and not realize its significance. You probably eat olives all the time and are thinking, “So you ate an olive—big deal.” And...

It didn’t happen when I turned 18. It didn’t happen when I turned 21. It wasn’t when I reached age 30, or even 40. Nope. It happened this week. This very week, leading up...

This past weekend, I attended the 60th anniversary reunion for staff who have worked at Camp Kulaqua in High Springs (I worked one summer in 1989). With the help of my wife, I was...

One can hardly go more than a few days without seeing someone post about doing this or that to protect your privacy online, or about some supposedly gross abuse of privacy. From my point...

If you’re one to glance at cutesy sayings that float around social media, you’ve probably seen this one: All generalizations are false, including this one. It’s actually a very insightful statement. Each of us—myself...

I don’t commonly have dreams that are vivid enough for me to remember when I wake up, so I’m thinking from now on, when I do remember them, I want to describe them for...

I have a theory and wonder if anyone knows anything about this. I’m sensing that gift card vendors are doing an end-run around the rules, and unfortunately what I think they’re doing is probably...

You’ve heard the phrase, “buy one, get one free.” Or maybe you’ve heard the shorter version, “buy one, get one,” or just BOGO. The full version makes sense, but the short version? If I...

While at Subway for lunch yesterday, I noticed that there was a new flavor of Sun Chips: Monterey Jack and Sundried Tomato. I can’t help but to find this newcomer to be a bag...

an article by Lori Glase One of our intimate times together while dating provoked me to ask Lee one evening, “Can you imagine being monotonous—after all, this is ME we’re talking about?” What I...

This blog thing is quite the intriguing beast. I look at the prolificacy of posts on my two prior blogs (D.T.P. by Lee and Second Initial) and, in some ways, kind of miss doing...

Earlier this year, the Nikon D90 owned by my office took a tumble off a shelf and traversed nearly three feet of air before greeting the floor. The only significant casualty appears to have...

Originally I was going to let it slip quietly by, and I’m certainly not going to make this notation every year—perhaps every five. But this past Sunday marked two years of the existence of...

On 9/11/01, I was in Washington State visiting my brother, his wife, and nephew who had been born just five days earlier. My cell phone rang about 7:00am Pacific Time (more than an hour...

Vowels by Christian Bök loveless vessels we vow solo love we see love solve loss else we see love sow woe selves we woo we lose losses we levee we owe we sell loose...

WordPress’ auto-upgrade didn’t even require me to think. Once click and I’m now up to version 2.8. Sweet. Not entirely sure what all is new, though. Guess I ought to head over to the...

The other day, I sent the following e-mail to support about Twitterrific 2.0 for iPhone: I seem to recall this bug in Twitterrific 1.x for iPhone, and then it was fixed, and now it’s back...

This is something to think about when negative people are doing their best to rain on your parade. So remember this story the next time someone who knows nothing, and cares less, tries to...

http://www.zuca.com/zuca_pro/ Before I start talking about the case itself, I’ll share a brief tale. I ordered a ZÜCA Pro bag via Amazon.com in mid-December. Ace Photo Digital was to fulfill the order and the...

As I type this entry, I’m sitting in the official media room for Macworld, located in Moscone South. Yes, that means that I was approved for a media registration and will be admitted to...

ATPM friends Chris and Eric and I were discussing which is worse, the fact that someone wrote the app, or the fact that someone wrote a full-blown press release. Believe me, this is hilarious!...

I have old (and I mean OLD) software on Mac floppy that’s destined for the trash unless someone can recommend a good home. Seven disks that comprise Aldus (yes Aldus, not Adobe) Pagemaker 5.0 with a...

I welcome input on this. I have a photo caption (edited slightly to remove people’s names from this public post) that currently reads: John Doe participates in the latest health screening which includes measuring...

One of my friends sent this to me. Even though I am truly not in the habit of throwing around stories through e-mail and blog posts, I liked the message in this. Even if...

Just what is it, anyway, with the times when you have to get a logic board in a computer replaced? Is it only an Apple Macintosh thing? Every single encounter I’ve had with the...

Back in late May, I wrote to Delicious Monster the following: Good job with DL2. Two comments: *Please* consider putting the information pane back on the right side, or give the option to do so....

The horror! Somehow, as I realized yesterday, neither my iTunes library nor my CD collection contains a single track of Chicago. Admittedly, I was never a huge follower, but there are many songs they...