Slavomir Rawicz’s The Long Walk has replaced James Frey’s books as the best book of the year. Several people recommended it to me and it was simply awesome. Rawicz tells t

I have used a two monitor setup for several years (I’m about to try three just for the hell of it.) I discovered Ultramon the other day, downloaded it, and

Live8 is just awesome. I’ve been tethered to my computer for a while watching it live on AOL. Pink Floyd is on stage right now in London (the first time

I started my summer school program today. Yeah – I know it’s Saturday – but so what. I turned off my email (eek) and settled into an hour of Brian

Ah – today was delightful. I love the first day of a month, especially if it’s the day after the end of a quarter. Amy and I have a standing

Scott Moody sent this article about The Martun restaurant in Kaohsiung as an add-on to my post about the best toilets in this world. Even I found this a little hard

My summer “book a day diet” began with a chewy one. Fortunately it was short (a “bookette” – only 62 pages). John Kenneth Galbraith is 95 years old. So

We have a bunch of cool companies. One of my new favorites is Sling Media who makes the ultraspiffy Slingbox. My collegue Ryan McIntyre sits on their board and has a

Amy and I arrived in Homer today. Yippee. Everything in the house works except the hot water. Oops. Guess we’ll have to figure that out tomorrow. Following is the v

I was recently asked the following question by email by a reader of my blog. Rather than respond with a one-off email, I figured I’d post my answer here since