Nike Gator Free Trainer 5.0 August 25th, 2015 @ 12:09 pm PDT
Earlier this month I read about the release of a new Gator-themed Nike sneaker on the Alligator Army website. (Follow them on Twitter @AlligatorArmy.) I jokingly tweeted a link to the story and wrote something about wanting someone to buy me a pair. Last week a pair appeared on my doorstep, direct from Nike HQ […]
My @DirecTV Snapshot August 21st, 2015 @ 8:31 pm PDT
Every month I get a worthless email from DirecTV touted as my “snapshot”. It’s just a marketing email with links to pay my bill! It would be really awesome, though, if they actually sent me a summary of my viewing habits for the month instead. “You watched twelve hours of American Ninja Warrior,” for example. […]
On Genius August 5th, 2015 @ 7:38 am PDT
Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness. Guy de Maupassant, (b) Aug. 5, 1850
On Life June 26th, 2015 @ 8:04 am PDT
There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired. from The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1984 June 25th, 2015 @ 7:37 am PDT
Happy birthday to Eric Blair — better known as George Orwell — born on this date in 1903, seventy years and one day before yours truly. My dad told me to read Animal Farm when I was seven years old. I thought it was really wild, but that there had to be something that I […]
On Knowing June 25th, 2015 @ 6:18 am PDT
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird … So let’s look at the bird and see what it’s doing — that’s what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something […]
On Books June 7th, 2015 @ 8:45 am PDT
We have a lot of books in our house. They are our primary decorative motif — books in piles on the coffee table, framed book covers, books sorted into stacks on every available surface, and of course books on shelves along most walls. Besides the visible books, there are the boxes waiting in the wings, […]
On Goals … June 1st, 2015 @ 8:06 am PDT
I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful. Norma Jean Mortenson
Happy Birthday, Jenny! May 22nd, 2015 @ 12:01 am PDT
On my little sister turning forty
Love vs. Time May 3rd, 2015 @ 7:39 am PDT
If you look at a testimony of love from 2,000 years ago it can still exactly speak to you, whereas medical advice from only 100 years ago is ridiculous. Jennifer Michael Hecht
