Day and Night

by | Feb 19, 2008 | photo

I wonder if cameraphones are the new polaroids. The pictures they make are quick, easy, sharable, used to document events or evidence, engagingly low-quality but sometimes oddly beautiful, and often a form of social lubrication. Sure, most of this goes for any digital...

No parrots were harmed in the making of this post

by | Feb 18, 2008 | culture, working

I used to work with a guy who was an excellent public speaker, as sales guys often are. Although I cannot remember any part of any presentation he ever gave, I remember very the time when he started off a talk with a joke that began, “A brunette, a redhead and a...

Spambot Poetry

by | Feb 17, 2008 | reading & writing, technology

Usually, I flush the spam out of the comment moderation queue without much thought, but this bit caught my eye. Your compositions should be exorbitantly practical exclusively to villagers in Leary. It’s like a cross between a fortune cookie and a badly...

Put the lime in the cucumber and muddle

by | Feb 16, 2008 | eating, travel

Poolside in Miami, hanging out with friends, it seemed totally natural to have a cocktail at 11:30am while discussing what a non-alcoholic mojito should be called.  Nojito?  Mojino?  Fauxjito? None of that for me.  Perhaps distantly inspired by the people who brought...