The Age of Adz

You may have noticed that I finally broke down and started including some ads on my site. I figured after over 10 years of sounding my barbaric YAWP to the World Wide Web, and now with hundreds (or sometimes thousands) of visitors each month, maybe I could finally ask this website to at least pay for...

WALK | DON’T WALK (Observations from Walking to Work)

For the past 2+ years, I have been walking to work pretty much every weekday, rain or shine. And I’m so glad that my new job and our new apartment also allow me to walk to work, because that journey-by-foot has become a favorite part of my day. Really! Not only do I enjoy the lift of getting a little...

My New GF

Recently I finally came to the realization that I have celiac disease/gluten intolerance. I am not alone; up to 0.75% of Americans may also have it, although it frequently goes undiagnosed for years. And this way my case too… This comes at (what I hope is) the end to a long history of constant...

Office Work

Recently I took a fresh-looking notepad off the top of the stack in the office supplies cabinet near my desk. Today as I was using it, I noticed there seemed to be a page out of alignment, sticking out a little bit from one side. I flipped to that page to try to straighten it and found that it was actually a...

Hyrbrid cars will be the death of me

I have nothing against gas/electric hybrid cars, really (in fact, I’d love to have one myself). But still, I’m afraid one of these days I will be killed by one. You see, I am a primarily auditory person, which means I do some things rather differently than the predominantly visual majority. One...

Irony

This is irony: There’s a huge Nor’easter storm outside right now with over a foot of snow and high winds… Three hours ago I walked a mile through through the storm to get to my office, where the A/C unit in the data center has failed… and I’m sitting here toasting (along with...