imagine you work in a cubicle, one with low walls and backed by a large multi-paned window. imagine that this cubible is on the top floor of a suburban office park which is itself atop a goodly sized hill. imagine that the ceiling is a good twenty-five feet above you, rather dark and cavernous and…

this is where i express myself. this is where i write about the things that matter to me, the things that concern me, the things that amuse me. i have never been one to use this as a platform for local gossip or for the execution of a personal vendetta. rarely do i ever mention…

okay, so i don’t know about buddha, but according to today’s bbc article, miss spears is taking issue with online file sharing in a series of public service announcements. seeing that the day is foggy and my mind is a bit restless, i tried to imagine just how this commercial shoot might’ve went down: Brittney:…

1. saviors of rock and roll every week brings a new one. the white stripes. the strokes. the vines. the hives. whatever. we all know that rock is in a sorry state right about now. the landscape is now strewn with slinky girl-divas, choreographed boy bands, carbon copy rap stars and screaming nu-metal bands, so…

remember when i mentioned this little guy? well, the beta testing powers-that-be have decided to let us keep them and play with them and take them to dinner for an extra week. this is quite cool in and of itself, but it also looks like the testers might be on the inside track to get…

however, it does email, web browsing, voice mail, instant messaging and note taking. it is only slightly larger than a cell phone. and speaking of cell phones, it is a cell phone. and all of the things i mentioned can be done from practically anywhere. it has a nickname, the “hiptop” — and you can…

So here is the thing. Why is it that we receive so much inspiration from dissatisfaction? Why does contentment breed complacency and a settling? Or maybe we are never content, but fear of motion keeps us still and comfortable, ignoring the mud at our feet that we wish were tile. When I started this job,…

[I wrote this sometime back in 1999, I believe. Unlike many of my older writings, this one didn’t have a date. I seem to recall a lot of sunshine around the time I put this together, so let’s just call it June. June … 6th. Sure.] I always find that when I have much about…