Month: October 2007

Here’s a question: If you could figure out the definite, true answer to any one mystery of anything, what would you choose? Here are some sample mysteries: Did Bigfoot eat the Lindbergh baby? Did aliens illegally immigrate to the United States via Roswell, N.M. in 1947? What made the Mona Lisa smile? Did the Mothman…

In doing research for this post, I realized that both browsers mentioned are trying to include something similar to this (albeit far less functional) in their next major release.  This makes me happy as I wasn’t expecting people to be telepathically wired to my brain, but so it goes. I’ve just switched to Flock from…

Do you think grad schools would think it was deep if I just sent a letter that said ‘tweet, tweet, tweet?’ or do I have to write a longer essay? # Related posts: Age of Domestic Consent Ahh… finally, some news you can use… New Mexico: must not be 4 or more years older than…

The following is an e-mail from the past, composed on Tuesday, May 15, 2007, and sent via FutureMe.org Dear Pixel, circa October 2007: Sometime I don’t get you. You left your job to travel the world and you ran out of money the first week. A ‘check logic’ light should have probably gone off in…

I like the environment. It’s been good to me. It warms the cockles of my heart. So when it asked me to write a post in my own style for Blog Action Day, I was more than happy to oblige. Insofar as it is convenient for me to do so, I always do what I…

I realized some time ago that most arguments (esp. bad ones) can be deflated with a few well-placed words. If they’re really good words, they can also deflate the person’s ego and get a laugh from nearby bystanders. I found a way to do this all with one word. The titular “Really?” However, you can’t…