My kids have discovered that they can watch YouTube videos on our big-screen TV using the Wii U. Okay, they discovered that option because I showed it to them. It's a double-edged sword, my excitement about technology. I figure something out, get all stoked about it, and show it … [Read more...]
Time to Blog
There are a lot of resources for bloggers of every stripe that promise to give one inspiration for blogging ideas. Topics, tricks, what to do when you run out of things to blog about. But that's never been my problem. I have so many ideas, so many things I can write about, but … [Read more...]
iGenius
A few months ago I took My Precious to the Apple Store to get a tune-up. The dude who served me at the Genius Bar looked just like that guy from How I Met Your Mother and a hundred silly man-boy films. Jason...something? Anyway, he was awesome, and the Genius Bar was really like … [Read more...]
The Great Period Debate
Over the last several months I have discovered that there are two things that I have always taken for granted about grammar and writing that are actually questioned by smart people. I'm talking about people like you and me, who read a lot, and even who write a lot. The first was … [Read more...]
The Music in Your Colon
In 2004 I was a story editor on a reality show called "From Flab To Fab." My colleagues and I like to describe it now as a precursor to "The Biggest Loser" because it was, like many of the shows I worked on, ahead of its time. Each episode documented a group of people who … [Read more...]
