What I want to talk about is communities, and how we build them, and how the United States became the melting pot it is claimed to be ( Read more... )

I dread the Home Depot experience ( Read more... )

I respect a person who is able to understand that their life experience adds up to something different than my own. At the very least, I know that this person has contemplated our mutual differences to an extent that they would realize that life experience, in general, matters tremendously in shaping who we are, though I expect many would tend to ( Read more... )

Lately, I've been working a project where I'm setting up a few web services for a vendor to access. Basically, I'm just directing traffic by receiving the request and pointing it to another application, packaging up the response and returning the data set. Simple stuff ( Read more... )

It was Open Mike night at the local comedy club. The crowd was thick and rowdy and dozens of green comedians lined the wings waiting for their big chance to rock the room ( Read more... )

I should have done this two-years ago, but I'm putting myself back on the market. I'm no longer interested in being an employee ( Read more... )

There was this tape recording my parents made of me when I was a toddler, slightly less than two, and I listened to it a lot when I was young. In it, I think I recited "Humpty-Dumpty" about 10-times. Now I think I understand ( Read more... )

Back in 1989, I went to a job interview at the Kaiser building in Oakland, and parked my car in the downstairs garage. A few hours later as I was exiting the garage, I discovered that I had no money to pay for the parking, which was less than $3, literally. Those were the good old days before ATM cards were debit cards and the various networks ( Read more... )

It turns out I'll be airborne while the Breaking Bad FeLiNa airs. (Yes, I caught the cute name and made the connection easily and wasn't surprised to see that others saw it too). I'm considering wearing a bag over my head as I walk through the terminal at MSY, just in case ( Read more... )

Do I feel somewhat vindicated that Gray Matter appears to be playing a role in the ending of Breaking Bad ( Read more... )