Not to get all Andy Rooney or anything, but I am getting damned tired of having a crappy user experience on simple web forms. I was just filling out a form to get a white paper for the day job, entered the requisite amount of bullshit, and then was thrown back to the entry page [...]
The only good thing about a talking urinal cake is that it grants me the opportunity to literally piss on marketing. Note to my friends in advertising: Don’t take this personally. Share/Bookmark
Judging from the way this week is going, reports of my survival may have been exaggerated. Nevertheless, here is a something I’ve been thinking about of late. When enjoying the arts — visual, literary, athletic, whatever — is your appreciation affected by the opinions or actions of the person who created it? Here’s the perspective [...]
While not exactly well, I am still among what passes for the living in South Florida, sufficiently so to go to the office and earn my cat food. I no longer have any physical symptoms other than an almost debilitating fatigue, though, so it isn’t like I’m spreading the plague. Besides, the century old air [...]
A West Palm Beach strip club has a fully-equipped male gargoyle sculpture as a mascot. I’m sure you will be shocked to learn this has caused a controversy. Of course, just how big a controversy is a matter of debate. “This statue has an impressive (!) genital area,” Sager e-mailed Assistant County Attorney Lenny Berger. [...]
Our difficulties continue, albeit on a biological rather than technical level. Regular publishing should resume shortly. We thank you for your patience. Share/Bookmark
It is silly and pointless, but if this was available in the US I would totally buy a USB hub disguised as a sci-fi nuclear firing button. There’s a long (i.e., more than two years) tradition of weirdly shaped and decorated USB devices and hubs, particularly in Asia. The button is one of the best [...]
We’re experiencing some technical difficulties, but will be back soon, I promise. In the interim, those of you with an interest in the fine art of mixology may want to peruse Jerry Thomas’ Bartenders Guide, originally published in 1862. Spend a few minutes perusing the fine libations offered inside, then head over to your favorite [...]
Google’s personalized home page has a “quote of the day” service. Today’s offering from Edward R. Murrow was undoubtedly chosen with blogging in mind. “Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.” Not that so-called professional journalists get [...]
Imagine that civilization came crashing down in 1929. Small bands of people are still picking through the rubble looking for useful items, while knowing in their hearts that it’s all over. New York City’s streets are littered with overturned automobiles and fluttering newspapers, while its growing skyline is collapsing, leaving brilliantly blue and cloud-strewn vistas [...]
When I first moved into my little DMZ of a neighborhood I was forced to listen to the sounds of open warfare every weekend, and some evenings, as well. You could hear the gangs coming in the distance if you were outside, or if the weather was cool enough to leave your windows open. Each [...]
“As if there was any need for further proof of my madness, I went to the Fairchild Mango Festival this morning.”
Many South Florida sites were visited by a new commenter last night: Michael Caputo. He went from site to site cutting and pasting the same Frank “Bully” Bolaños editorial, in which he puts forth the preposterous claim that it’s okay to remove a book for political purposes. Caputo, if you didn’t know (and there’s no [...]
As part of my not-formally-discussed day job, I help people write. When they have some manner of internal communication they need to send out via e-mail, particularly if there’s some kind of technical information they need the masses to comprehend, it ends up on my desk. This has nothing to do with my title or [...]
“I’d say the audio-video ratio of podcasts is 10-to-1. It’s still so much easier to create audio than video, and people have much more time in their day to listen than to watch. You can listen while driving. You lose viewers really fast when they watch while they’re driving.“ I have a quick question for [...]
I’ll admit to being a little bitter and cynical about the current state of this nation. So many of the values on which this nation was founded have been eroded or flatly discarded by our elected officials that it can be difficult to harbor hope for the future. Even if change comes, a hard road [...]
Arthur Flegenheimer was better known as Dutch Schultz, a notorious bootlegger and mobster of the 1920-30 era. While he was a vicious and ruthless gangster, his biggest mark on the world came from his last words — a mad stream-of-consciousness rant which lasted for hours. They have inspired speculation and scholarship, and been the subject [...]
It was a grey and listless Sunday following a largely sleepless Saturday night, so I was a touch out of sorts today. Here’s what I’ve been looking at (other than a whole lot of X-Files DVDs). So the first month of hurricane season has passed without incident. Feel a little more relaxed? This AP animation [...]
Well, I made it through the month of June without missing a day of updates. I won’t pretend they were all stellar quality (present company included), but I am gratified that some interesting discussions came about through them. I am truly gratified by the thoughtful, funny, informed, in-depth, and sincere comments left here. A community [...]