I’ve been a copywriter for almost six years now, and I just had my first chance to write a TV commercial. If the client likes it, I might be rewarded with some baseball tickets, maybe a trip down some red carpet somewhere, and perhaps the opportunity to take some time off next winter.
Keep your [...]
March 26, 2006 – 08:00 am
Energy is made up of mass that is moving at the speed of light squared. This is a definite speed. Any rate of decrease means that the energy has dissipated into matter and waves, where matter is self-contained energy and waves are the wake of that matter in time. The only way for the energy [...]
March 17, 2006 – 12:00 am
“Icthanatos ichor hemophile.â€
Those were the first words spoken to Ramona Schwartz by her neuron. They sounded just as ridiculous the first time as they do now, but because they came from inside her head, Ramona found them less humorous than others might.
Ramona does not have a psychological pathology. The voice that comes from inside her [...]
Greg Linden has posted some interesting notes and thoughts on the future of Google, which originated from an analyst’s presentation that Google gave on Friday. While there’s a lot of stuff in it, the thing that caught my eye was the following note to slide number 12, which spoke of different ways that Google could [...]
February 26, 2006 – 11:13 pm
You don’t know me. This is my first year here. We might have a friend in common though. Do you remember Carl? He was the man around here for a quite a while. A public safety officer. He died a couple of years back. Just a really interesting guy. I met him last summer while [...]
February 24, 2006 – 02:09 am
I have a question for you. How much better does your life need to get? I ask this not expecting you to rate your life on a 1 - 10 scale of desires and satisfactions, but rather, for you to explain some sort of rationale behind whatever number you would choose.
The reason I ask is [...]
February 8, 2006 – 01:38 am
“Life does not consist in seeking and consuming the fuel furnished by breathing and nourishment, but, if we may so speak, in consummating terrestrial and celestial nourishments.” — Emmanuel Levinas
I was hovering over a flower-filled field. A craving grew in my stinger. I felt myself pulled toward them, a wagon pulled by a team of [...]
February 5, 2006 – 03:49 pm
What a sad week, not only for the participants in all the different forms of the civil rights movement, but for everyone who has ever realized that the world isn’t quite right yet, and hoped to do something about it.
On January 31, Wendy Wasserstein died from complications of lymphoma at the age of 55. Wasserstein [...]
January 31, 2006 – 12:36 am
Naked and crying, somewhere on the other side of the river, Anthony Mcgwin sat on his knees in the muddy, leaf-stained snow, his shoulders hunching with every intake of wet breath. His curly gray hair contrasted starkly with his pale young skin. Small twigs stuck to his back. Snow and mud covered his elbows. The [...]
January 29, 2006 – 12:56 am
I just came across this photo in Flickr and wanted to share it with all of you. It was taken by someone who goes by the name Walkabout Wolf. Apparently, it was taken on Mt. Baker, in the Snoqualmie National Forest near Greenwater, Washington on November 14, 2005. It’s now my desktop background. And I [...]
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