Pecha Kucha Night, a lifetime in six minutes

Some time last year, I first learned about Pecha Kucha from the estimable Presentation Zen blog, but it wasn’t until last night that I experienced it.  Pecha Kucha, in a nutshell, is when people get together and share 20-slide presentations in which the slides...

Geek note: brown is the new black

I’m a big believer in the primacy of content, but sometimes I have to share some technical details on what kind of typewriters the infinite monkeys in here are using, and I know there are a few techies out there who dig this stuff. Feeling the need for more...

A random waddle

Sometimes I get excited about small things.  Some would say that’s the point of this blog.  Others would say, “that’s what she said.”  Today’s little fixation is the Random Redirect WordPress Plugin by Matt Mullenweg. I have implemented...

Morning in the bathroom: nozzle reform

Back in February, I complained that Kiss My Face Moisture Shave was packaged with a lousy nozzle, and even got a nice comment from the company’s CEO, Bob MacLeod.  I didn’t think much more of it at the time, and I continued to buy KMF in tube form and...