I'm sometimes asked how I can remember so much in these tales from my early life, but the truth is I only recall a few specific events, and I fill in the rest with generalized memories or things that I learned long after the fact. So for example, this post is based on two specific … Continue reading The One Where I Get a Baby Sister
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Fresh Air
I appreciate fresh air as much as the next guy, I think, but I fail to understand its current fetishization. By that I mean restaurants that offer outdoor seating on narrow sidewalks on busy streets with buses and trucks adding their own unmufflered obbligatos. View fullsize An example of an outdoor seating restaurant where I … Continue reading Fresh Air
My IQ Test
The one and only IQ test I've ever taken was in 9th grade when I was 14.I don't specifically remember taking the test itself, but I'm pretty sure it was a multiple choice test, and if there is one thing that I've always been good at doing, it's taking multiple choice tests.Now I don't put … Continue reading My IQ Test
Travelin’ Backwards
This post contains some minor spoilers for the first episode of the Netflix series Travelers. Eric McCormack I tried watching the Netflix series Travelers. It's about a group of people from a bleak far future who travel to our present to take over people's bodies at the time of death, magically cure them of whatever … Continue reading Travelin’ Backwards
The iPhone X’s Face ID
Within just a few minutes of use I could tell that the new iPhone X's Face ID was far and away superior to the old unreliable (for me anyway) Touch ID.Touch ID was extremely fussy in its initial incarnation and a bit slow. Even in its second generation which everyone seemed to rave about, it … Continue reading The iPhone X’s Face ID
Messin’ With the Deaf
If you ever want to mess with a deaf person who reads lips (and who among us hasn’t wanted to mess with a deaf person at one time or another?), go up to him or her and say “Vacuum!”A lip reader can’t tell the difference between that and “Fuck you!”Actually, you probably only want to … Continue reading Messin’ With the Deaf
Wissahickon Wildlife
My latest video is a short collection of photos from my 12 years living in the Wissahickon section of Philadelphia.
The Case of the Errant AirPod
View fullsize The end table where the charging case was found As I stripped the bed in preparation for laundry day, I reflected that I had slept pretty well last night, considering. Considering that the one big drawback (well, the bigger one of two) with my new apartment is that the radiators throw off so … Continue reading The Case of the Errant AirPod
Which Way To 13th Street?
As I was walking over to Trader Joe's a little while ago, I saw a man and a woman standing on the sidewalk about half a block ahead of me. The woman was furiously futzing with her phone, and the man was just standing there. The way they were standing, they were effectively blocking … Continue reading Which Way To 13th Street?
Mad World
Some of the major players in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World Sometime after It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World was released, presumably well after the road show version was finished and it had gone into general release, so it must have been sometime in 1964, Randy Klopp, who I guess had … Continue reading Mad World