My friend Amy Boyd has, over the time that she has worked at Texas State University, acquired a fairly impressive collection of stuffed animals. This was not because she bought them herself, or even because she’s particularly fond of them, but because someone gave her the first one as a joke. Other people got it [...]
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Posted 29 August 2008
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Pranks
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One of the best things about being me is that I’m blessed with some amazing, creative, interesting friends. Here are a few things that they’ve been up to lately: David Barnard has started an iPhone software company called AppCubby, and has just released their first product, TripCubby, the sine qua non of mileage tracking for [...]
Back when dinosaurs roamed the Internet and you could get a cup of coffee and a shoeshine for a nickel, before the kids all had their newfangled “Mybook” and “Facespaces” and the blink tag still seemed a pretty nifty idea, there was Brain Sausage. Brain Sausage was an early proto-weblog, created before such things actually [...]
My friend and occasional boss Seth Dillingham is gearing up again for the Pan-Massachusetts Challenge, an annual bicycle ride fund raiser that benefits the Dana-Farber Institute, a research organization that battles cancer. Part of Seth’s fund raising each year includes a big Macintosh software auction, for which he’s now collecting donations. If you make Mac [...]
I’m just back from the sixth Stupid Guy Trip, an annualish gathering of my brother, me, and a few of our oldest and dearest. This year Chris McMains, Daniel Priest, Mike Brack, Ben Mengden, Ross Richie, Jason Young, and Jonathan Hunter made up the roster. More than ever this year, it was an experience I [...]
A highlight of this past weekend was a tamale-making party at my friend James Buratti‘s house that he and his wife Jen hosted. Tamale-making is a ritual that holds a certain mystique in Mexican culture, with recipes and techniques handed down from generation to generation and horror stories of young people’s apprenticeships in the kitchen [...]
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Posted 03 December 2007
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Food
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I’m late on this, because I was too busy enjoying the things for which I’m thankful! Here’s a list of them: Food, shelter, and the fact that all my physical needs are met. A country where the rule of law is generally respected and where individual rights are usually protected. The beauty of creation, and [...]
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Posted 24 November 2007
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Family
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A few months ago, David Barnard tipped me off to the existence of the Canyon Lake Gorge, a feature formed in 2002 by the torrential overflow from Canyon Lake during that year’s floods. We were both able to secure one of the scarce reservations for a hike through the gorge, and embarked on our little [...]
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Posted 14 November 2007
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Travel
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The inimitable Jason Young and I took this past Sunday to build a hardware store hovercraft out of wood, plastic sheeting, a leaf blower, and peanut butter. (Note: one of those things is a lie.) We then set my children (read: “lab rats”) floating down the street on it like passengers on a giant air [...]
My friend Joshua Kriegshauser, with whom I worked at Electronic Arts, has posted a magnificent video of his assembly of the 5,200-piece Millennium Falcon lego kit over the span of 11 days. Be sure to watch for the outfit changes! Tremendous work, Josh!
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