Miscellaneous

75 posts

Unclassifiable, anything goes, whatever.

Thu 14 Feb
2008

A Brief Valentine’s Day Message

8:22 PM
Remarks (7)

Two bits for the holiday, one sweet, one sour.

Tue 18 Sep
2007

Think Like a Dog

10:59 PM
Remarks (57)

Canine logic answers the question, “Can I eat it?”

Fri 31 Aug
2007

End of Summer Remainders

11:07 PM
Remarks (3)

Some links I had lying around.

Wed 29 Aug
2007

The August Work Ethic

11:26 PM
Remarks (20)

Why are you’re reading this post this week?

Tue 28 Nov
2006

Round-up Time!

11:47 PM
Remarks (22)

As I recover from a 24-hour bug, get ready for random.

Fri 03 Nov
2006

Return of the Friday Free-for-All

7:42 PM
Remarks (8)

Possibly the first of a long line of dumping grounds for links I can’t turn into full posts.

Mon 25 Sep
2006

Selling Out and Selling More

11:17 PM
Remarks (34)

An update on tee-shirt-fueled support for Subtraction.com.

Tue 06 Jun
2006

Card Sorting Exercises

6:31 PM
Remarks (12)

I’d just be so happy if I could lighten my wallet a bit.

Tue 07 Mar
2006

Odds and Ends

5:55 PM

Come see me at SXSW, read my friend’s blog, and/or come work with me at my job.

Tue 24 Jan
2006

Four for Today

6:57 PM
Remarks (2)

Lists of things that you may not have known about me.

Tue 08 Feb
2005

The Mini-Binder Sketchbook System

11:08 AM
Remarks (24)

How to create the perfect sketchbook with less than ten dollars’ worth of office supplies.

Thu 28 Oct
2004

When Losers Win

9:35 PM
Remarks (5)

To my surprise, I rooted for Boston, but that’s all done and over with.

Thu 14 Oct
2004

Ceci N’est Pas Un Opinion

9:59 PM
Remarks (2)

There’s my opinion, and then there’s everyone else’s opinion.

Wed 13 Oct
2004

Stress Testing

11:05 PM
Remarks (3)

It’s hard to watch television tonight, but I can’t look away.

Wed 08 Sep
2004

Putting the Dubya in AWOL

11:20 PM
Remarks (11)

Two reactions after watching questions about Bush’s military record resurface on 60 Minutes II.

Mon 06 Sep
2004

Little Bit of Little Saigon

10:09 PM
Remarks (3)

The exception to New York’s rule for lackluster Vietnamese restaurants.

Wed 01 Sep
2004

Grant Me the Serenity

12:45 AM
Remarks (9)

Two things beyond my control have me in a foul mood.

Fri 06 Aug
2004

Don’t Go Back to Dulles

11:14 PM
Remarks (3)

Close is not good enough in the quest to bring baseball back to Washington, D.C.

Sun 20 Jun
2004

A New Vast Wasteland

2:21 PM
Remarks (1)

Fri 14 May
2004

A Little Bit of Nice

7:35 PM

I watched a kid get a cheap egg sandwich this morning.

Thu 06 May
2004

The Design of Everyday Briefings

3:55 PM
Remarks (2)

Some thoughts on Airbag.ca’s thoughts on improving the Presidential Daily Briefings.

Mon 03 May
2004

What I Did on My Vacation from Blogging

11:56 PM
Remarks (3)

Wow, what a bust the last week turned out to be, at least for blogging.

Thu 01 Apr
2004

Manual Dexterity

6:17 PM

I found a little bit of old New York when I tried to get a typewriter repaired.

Thu 29 Jan
2004

Friend of a Friend of a Dog

9:51 PM
Remarks (1)

Social networking, doggie style.

Mon 26 Jan
2004

How the West Is Flown

9:53 PM

What you get when you get a plane ticket.

Mon 05 Jan
2004

Tap Tap Tap

5:51 PM
Remarks (1)

A way-back machine for writers.

Thu 01 Jan
2004

A Night on the Tiles

10:32 PM

“Shampoo” plus Scrabble equals New Year’s Eve.

Thu 11 Dec
2003

December Days

11:57 PM

December goes by like that.

Sat 06 Dec
2003

Twelve Inches of Fun

8:12 PM
Remarks (1)

Seven inches of snow and a foot of PowerBook.

Wed 22 Oct
2003

October Backlog

10:27 AM
Remarks (2)

A mostly-Macintosh list of stuff I’m preoccupied with.

Thu 16 Oct
2003

Pain in Vain

10:17 PM
Remarks (4)

I love watching baseball. I can’t stand watching baseball.

Mon 06 Oct
2003

World Won’t Listen…

11:51 PM
Remarks (1)

Wah, wah, wah.

Tue 23 Sep
2003

Tickets to Nowhere

9:50 AM
Remarks (3)

Here’s a quick complaint about online ticket purchasing for highly popular events: it has a long way to go.

Tue 02 Sep
2003

Wake Up, It’s September

11:41 PM

The cruel way summer left us all of a sudden.

Tue 12 Aug
2003

The Puns of August

10:51 AM
Remarks (2)

Random postings to catch me up.

Fri 27 Jun
2003

Week in Review

11:17 AM
Remarks (1)

On my way to Montréal, a few random items.

Tue 01 Apr
2003

Fool’s Cold

11:14 AM

April Fool’s Day odds’n’ends

Mon 24 Feb
2003

Wounded Walking

11:25 AM

After slipping and twisting my ankle, this is how I spent the weekend.

Fri 04 Oct
2002

Don’t Go Back to Rockville

5:24 PM

Five random killings in Montgomery County, MD hit close to my hometown.

Sat 21 Sep
2002

Street Feast

10:56 PM

A moment from the Feast of San Gennaro, in its 75th year in New York?s Little Italy.

Wed 18 Sep
2002

Vocabulary Builder

2:10 PM

One hundred words every high school student should know.

Wed 07 Aug
2002

Out Box

9:25 AM

A grab bag of links.

Mon 05 Aug
2002

Road Rage

11:41 PM

A weekend without my cable modem.

Fri 26 Jul
2002

Reported in the New Yorker

10:57 AM

Two notable entertainments from The New Yorker.

Mon 22 Apr
2002

Lee Way

9:46 PM

Play deejay with Bruce Lee.

Sat 16 Mar
2002

Game Face

9:23 AM

Put your best Flash Face on.

Wed 13 Mar
2002

Grab Bag of Links

9:20 PM

Boxes and Arrows is a new Web magazine for information architects.

Thu 07 Mar
2002

Penney Wise, Pound Stylish

9:14 PM

Look at this old J.C. Penney catalog from 1980.

Mon 25 Feb
2002

Swamped

12:24 AM

Getting used to running a company.

Thu 14 Feb
2002

Heart Shaped GIFs

5:42 PM

Make your very own heart.

Tue 12 Feb
2002

What’s New

6:20 PM

Happy lunar new year.

Thu 24 Jan
2002

Choose Your Own Eva Herzigova Adventure

5:16 PM

You can play with Eva Herzigova.

Sat 05 Jan
2002

That Is, Lorem Ipsum

10:36 PM

The story of lorem ipsum.

Sat 01 Dec
2001

Pssst

11:55 PM

Secret Santa is a cute idea.

Wed 22 Aug
2001

Hands-Free

5:48 PM

How to get a cheap wireless headset for your mobile phone.

Fri 17 Aug
2001

Like, an Awesome Factory

7:49 PM

Aaron Bergeron’s Awesome Factory is hilarious.

Sat 11 Aug
2001

Cultutalism Subtext is of Very Funny

11:10 AM

isn’t it hilarious when foreigners mess up English?

Sat 04 Aug
2001

Fun and Games

6:39 PM

Will Lee is making board games in Brooklyn.

Mon 25 Jun
2001

Assorted

10:29 AM

A few random links and notes.

Fri 22 Jun
2001

Get Foucault

12:28 AM

Foucault as action figure. Discuss.

Wed 30 May
2001

So Easy to Use

11:13 PM

An hilarious sendup of America Online’s inane marketing.

Fri 11 May
2001

A Day in the Life, Marked Up

6:12 PM

A clever entry to the 5k competition.

Sun 06 May
2001

Post-Winter Payoff

10:00 PM

At long, long last.

Wed 02 May
2001

Karate Chimp

10:39 AM

The new iBook is a home run.

Sun 15 Apr
2001

Easter Eggs

11:43 PM

Happy Easter, software lovers.

Sat 14 Apr
2001

Quotability

12:31 AM

Design is a method employed by artists to impose tyranny on the world.

Thu 08 Mar
2001

From the HVAC World

7:42 PM

Don’t look back at air conditioning.

Wed 07 Mar
2001

Let’s Blow This Clam Bake

9:08 PM

Your place or mine?

Tue 06 Mar
2001

Currently in Development

8:37 PM

Fooling around with a digital camera.

Sun 04 Mar
2001

Drive, He Said

1:18 PM

Succumbing to the driving life in Los Angeles, just a little bit.

Tue 13 Feb
2001

How to Get Around in Los Angeles

11:11 PM

Lots of driving to be done in Los Angeles, lots of it.

Wed 10 Jan
2001

Cute

10:01 AM

Pandas at the National Zoo.

Fri 05 Jan
2001

Don’t Look Back

12:57 AM

A Graham Greene quote from the novella “The Third Man.”

Sat 16 Dec
2000

What Do Directors Know?

11:46 AM

Steven Soderbergh on sexual chemistry.

Mon 11 Dec
2000

The Color Orange

1:52 AM

Blogger is cool and so is its logo.