I finally downloaded Fireant, started messing around, and have gotten videoblog religion. Now, I’m just waiting for an open-source app that will bring videoblogs, text blogs, audioblogs, email, and my browser into one easy to use package. I’m not talking about a proprietary Microsoft tool that will use the technology to leverage their […]

Sitting in my backyard, thinking about Hurricane Katrina, the neighborhood just went suddenly quiet and the sun came out.
While you make pretty speeches,
I’m being cut to shreds.
You feed me to the lions,
a delicate balance
When this just feels like spinning plates.
I’m living in cloud cuckoo land.
And this just feels like spinning plates
Our bodies floating down the […]

Maybe instead of smoking, I can become obsessed with collecting smoking ephemera. Internet, you are most certainly not helping. Bad internet!
La Saga Cigarette - Royal Tigara
(via We Make Money Not Art, visa vie Boing Boing)

For years, I’ve been trying to tell disgruntled co-workers that my smoke breaks helped me concentrate. Of course, this is a load of bullshit, I smoke for many reasons, but concentration is not one of them. This article is interesting anyway. I’m going to give up the tobacco next month (honest, my […]

Do older gamers (we’re talking over 30 here people, sheesh!) need their own servers and communities to stave off the rude, anti-social antics of the younger set? While I have experienced the frustration of trying to play online with pre-pubescent trash-talkers, I would hope that designers of multiplayer games would take up the problem, […]

According to this report, Yahoo may have collaborated with the Chinese government as they tracked down and jailed a dissident reporter. If true, I’ll be canceling all my accounts with Yahoo, including Flickr, IM, and group subscriptions. However, I’m reserving judgement until the mainstream media picks up the story and Yahoo has a […]

Greetings. I may be away from the keyboard for a day or so while I gear up for a work project.
I’m getting the chance to be much more creative in my day job which is like a cool drink of water. However, I’d forgotten how much time and energy it takes […]

grumble, grumble…
Okay, so Bumbershoot is usually an unpleasant experience and we decided not to go this year to protect our sanity. However, I do harbor a few regrets, like missing the 826 Seattle fundraiser and Death Cab for Cutie’s cover of "Hungry Like The Wolf". Yes that’s Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler) himself singing […]

I’ve been tinkering with Pop Astronaut’s WordPress install this afternoon and have added a few new features. Whenever you comment on a post, you can now elect to receive an email update when replies are posted. Also, I’ve made available an RSS feed for comments. You can find a link on the […]

I’ve been having a great time playing Urban Dead, a free, browser-based MMORPG that allows you to reinact your favorite George Romero zombie smorgasbord. The game is pretty low-fi, but the scope of the environment and fun concept make it instantly addictive.
You’re given a limited number of "action points" each session to keep […]

Emotional strain always makes me regress and turn to childhood favorites for comfort. Feeling like a kid is mostly an internal condition for me; I still look like in-control, adult guy on the outside…unless I’m having a fight with my mom, in which case I start acting like my messy, petulant, annoying 14 year […]

In line for coffee this morning, I stood behind three gorgeous, nicely dressed, very high-maintenance women. They wanted their coffee in a french press and needed to know the exact genealogy of the bean from which it was brewed. One sported a Strand Bookstore canvas bag, the second a Brooklyn Cyclones tshirt. […]

It’s pretty impossible at this point to think, or blog, about anything other than the devastation in New Orleans. The horror of the situation is so big, words just fail me and now I hear that Fats Domino is missing and Bush may have cut funding for levee improvement projects in Louisiana to fund […]