May 2008
“If your teenager has had “basic” sex without somebody’s mouth...”
– William Saletan on Oral Sex
On mushrooms and climbing out of the box →
I love mushrooms. And it looks like Dan Cederholm is a big fan of them as well.
This might not seem like earth-shattering news, but there was one sentence in Dan’s post that really struck a chord:
It’s funny how we box ourselves in.
I’ll admit it: I am often extremely rash in making decisions that pertain to my tastes and interests. Unlike Dan, I’ve always known that I love mushrooms, but...
“The problem with being a tyrannical dictator is that there is no career path and...”
– Scott Adams
What do you wish for your children?
My mother always gets mad at me when I tell her that I don’t plan on getting married. She complains that she won’t have grandchildren.
Of course, this makes no sense, because I’m not saying I won’t have kids; I just don’t need a piece of paper to prove that the person I’m raising my children with is my wife.
Because to be honest, I really want to have children. I think kids are filled with so...
swissmiss
Sometimes I wish Tina Roth Eisenberg used Tumblr rather than Typepad, only because I think I’d want to reblog every single thing she posts. (Not that I don’t do that already, but it would just be so much easier if it were a one-click process.)
So I guess what I’m saying is that if you don’t read swissmiss yet, go and subscribe. Now.
Thank you for being my friend (and referral) →
This short note is my small way of saying thank you to all my friends. Or more specifically, to all my friends that have helped me stay employed over the past three years.
See, when you’re working as a freelance consultant, your next paycheck is never guaranteed. Most freelancers I know spend almost as much time looking for new gigs as they do working for their current clients. The benefits of...
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish...”
– Anais Nin
“Cars have taken us off the streets, where we used to greet each other and stop...”
– Leo Babauta
Mondays bring heart attacks →
I think if you’ve made it through most of the day so far, you should be okay for today. But next week…watch out.
Blogging -- It's Good for You →
Science proves what we’ve known for years: blogging is good for you. From the article:
Some hospitals have started hosting patient-authored blogs on their Web sites as clinicians begin to recognize the therapeutic value. Unlike a bedside journal, blogging offers the added benefit of receptive readers in similar situations.
Interesting. I’d love to hear more from these hospitals...
“I keep hearing that she’s not leaving the race because she doesn’t...”
– Danah Boyd
If you started a magazine, what would it be about?
I grew up idolizing The New Yorker. Heck, while everyone was dreaming of being a firefighter or astronaut, one of my childhood dreams was to be a staff writer for the magazine.
I know The New Yorker is far from perfect. In fact, in the past few years, I have been coming up with ideas for the perfect magazine. And then one day, I picked up Monocle and realized that it had hit on most of those...
Questions for a Friday evening →
Because I’m too tired to throw together a long essay on either of these issues, and because sunny Friday afternoons were meant to be spent eating ice cream outside instead of writing, here are a few question running through my head as I sit and watch the sun set this evening.
Who stays for the credits?
How does Apple hire booth staff?
When did hockey become so exciting?
Why don’t I get a day off...
25 Ways to Tell You're Grown Up →
Okay, before I comment on this article, can we change the title to “25 Ways to Tell You’re A Grown-up” or “25 Ways to Tell You’ve Grown Up” just to make it work better in my mind? Thanks.
That being said, all 25 of the items on that list apply to me. Too well. And the scary part is that they’ve all applied to my life for a few years now. So I must be...
Underrated Movies (from last year)
Jessica started a new meme where we all list three movies we think are underrated. Awesome.
Well, seeing as how I watch between 100-150 movies a year, it is a bit tough to narrow a list down to simply three films, so I’m modifying the game a little. I’m restricting my list to the three most underrated movies of last year (2007) to make it easier for me to make up my mind.
So...
“If you’re a knowledge worker, your boss shouldn’t make you come to...”
– Seth Godin
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you...”
– Ferris Bueller
A fantastic quote over on WWTDD (via):
Cameron Diaz was spotted in Santa Monica on the set of “My Sister’s Keeper” yesterday, in which she plays the sister of a girl with leukemia. In the movie, Cameron’s character shaves her head as a show of support. In reality, Cameron took the easy way out and used a cap and makeup. A real actor would have shaved their head. Daniel Day...
“Oh Mr Freetard, you work as a programmer, do you? How interesting. So do you...”
– Steven Poole
This Beautiful City Showcases Toronto →
Ed Gass-Donnelly, in his recent film This Beautiful City, features Toronto at its grittiest. And for that, I’m proud.
We’re all used to Toronto playing the stand-in for New York or Boston in big-budget films. Seeing our city play herself on screen is a rare enough treat, but in Gass-Donnelly’s movie, she not only stars, but shines. For those of you that didn’t get the...
She’s getting married. For real this time. And I just found out.
That’s all I have to say for now. And I don’t think I’ll have the patience for Tumblr (or anything else for that matter) today, so good day, good night, and good luck.
Food Poisoning
My submission for the Twitter Writing Contest, based on a true story:
Something about him made me sick. Tough-skinned, bony, tasteless, full of bile, raw & hard to digest. Last time I have my lawyer for dinner.
Definitely not easy to write a whole story in 140 characters.
“You know what no one tells you? What the fuck do you do with the remnants of an...”
– Graveyard of relationships past
Head of Magic is an awesome job title →
My current gig as a policy analyst with the government aside, my job title in my freelance consulting career is ‘storyteller’ or some variant of the storytelling theme.
So when I read this quote on Put Things Off today (yes, I know it is an old post), I was, well, extremely put off:
Your job title isn’t the place to be creative. If you craft beautiful logos, kern type all day and your best...
Was life simpler back then? I answer today’s...
“As a New Yorker, I am loath to admit this, but I think Toronto has a better...”
– Matt Gross in the NYT
Can Chuck Swirsky Be Replaced? →
About two weeks ago, Chuck Swirsky, the voice of the Toronto Raptors, decided to leave Toronto after ten years and return to his former home in Chicago. The split between Swirsky and our beloved basketball team was amicable, with Swirsky claiming family reasons and personal commitments for his departure.
It’s no question that Swirsky will be missed. Whether you liked his style or not, he...
