The Little Things
I’m always kind of torn when I sit down to write here. Sometimes I’ve got something important to say (e.g., if I happen to have left my job), and sometimes I […]
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Puttering – Oh, and the Middle East Peace Process
It’s just been a little over a month since I walked away from Google, but only in this last week have I been staying put enough to start, as I […]
Salt
The best brief description was that it was a shanty town. A shanty town floating along the Sacramento River Delta. Manned by young hot pirates. With power tools. Oh, and […]
Well, that was fun.
Apparently, the understated Edmund Hillary’s first words upon reaching camp after he and Tenzing Norgay summited Everest were “Well, George, we knocked that bastard off.” Made it sound casual, making […]
A Word About T-Mobile Customer Service: Ahahahahahaha!
Remember that great joke T-Mobile told me last week about sending me a signal booster, so I could actually make calls from my home? Yeah. Another 45 minutes on the […]
A Chat with T-Mobile
The conversation is predictable: first you wade through the cloying chatty voice response system and wait on hold for 10-15 minutes. Every 20 or so seconds, the Muzak rendition of […]
Working Backward
After my previous-minus-one post, the wise Miss Em delicately asked that I not try too hard to put out little storycrafted works of literature. That I should just tell y’all […]
In summer, everything is possible
“When the Muse comes, she doesn’t tell you to write; she says, get up for a minute, I’ve got something to show you, stand here.” – Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at […]
David Pablo Cohn 