weapons of massdistraction

Tomorrow will mark one month since my son’s birthday, yet he continues to sing the birthday song…to himself. He started a few weeks prior to his birthday. Over these many weeks I’ve noticed how his rendition has evolved. Initially it was barely intelligible. Slowly his enunciation improved, and he even added in key parts [...]

Why is it that I can’t fall asleep when I’m wide awake at 4am…but am downright drowsy, daily, between 1 and 2 pm? Usually I blame it on lunchtime logeyness. But I ate earlier today. The sleepiness didn’t start until much later. Yawn.

Wacky. Many months ago I made a submission to a collaborative site. And didn’t hear back from them. And nearly forgot about it. Until today. I received an apologetic email from a fellow who, apparently, has been on holiday for a while. Or maybe just on holiday from the site he was running. Whatever [...]

Super-yuck. I was, and still am, really looking forward to tomorrow night’s Sleater-Kinney show. But while making my usual web rounds I came across something super disturbing. At least they caught the creep, I guess. But at a Sleater-Kinney show? That’s one of the last places, one would hope, this sort of thing would [...]

The phrase that caught my attention, and my imagination, so many years ago has popped up again. This time in a disturbing article at Salon, about a multiplayer combat video game the army cooked up…where “you can never be the enemy, in America’s Army”. A game which the Army claims 470,000 people have [...]