Commute.
My new morning routine includes a 20-minute walk through San Francisco to work. I’ve started to recognize a few regulars. For example, as I emerge out of the subway I often see a homeless man who...
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Capped.
Can you believe that the son of J.D. Salinger is Matt Salinger, who played Captain America in a really terrible direct-to-video movie in the early ‘90s? Wouldn’t it have been nice if Matt Salinger was...
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I knew it would be a change to go from a large company, where I oversaw a team of six, to a startup with an annual operating budget that’s only slightly higher than the average budget for a junior high...
View ArticleA handful of Facebook manifestos.
My Games Manifesto. Although I am tolerant of people’s Mafia and Farmville addictions, if you add me although we never talked in high school for the sole purpose of trying to recruit me to your Farm,...
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I recently found a pea-sized bump under my right armpit. Since I keep informed on matter related to medicine--by that I mean, I regularly watch Nip/Tuck--I was aware that this could potentially be a...
View ArticleThicke and thin.
My boss had a spare ticket to an Alicia Keys concert and asked if I wanted to go. It’s not really my kind of music, but hearing artists perform live really changes the game for me. I’d go hear RNC...
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I wrote this post in early 2008, but did not publish it here until now. My mother wore a shirt this weekend with cartoon depictions of stool from a variety of local forest animals. The headline was...
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I am now the proud owner of a big pile of guns. As expected, my late father bequeathed his gun collection to me and my brother. And he owned a lot of guns. Colts, magnums, shotguns. Also knives and...
View ArticlePlantation.
Not wanting to take on the additional expense of a gardener right now, I’m handling my front and back yards by myself. But I have no idea what I’m doing. Usually I grasp the garden shears and hurl...
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One thing I find strange is that in most occasions, it’s not considered polite to talk about one’s sex life with acquaintances. Except for one exception--when people talk about attempting to have a...
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