Have you ever lost someone close to you? I’m not talking about a pet or someone you went to high school with but never actually talked to, I mean someone really close. One of those friends where, as the cliché goes, if your entire life was represented as a series of footprints on a beach [...]

I was sitting there writing the editor’s letter when I felt my stomach rumbling. In my haste to get to the kitchen, I didn’t notice my laptop’s power cable messily strewn across the laminate floor. I briefly stumbled but my cat-like balance kept me from falling to my cheap yet durable floor. The laptop wasn’t [...]

During the Second Punic War (218-202 BC), Archimedes allegedly took down a whole navy fleet with a big mirror. With the 2.0 Web Revolution (2004-present), we have an army of girls lifting up their shirts in front of their bathroom mirrors. Remember that “Right Now” video by Van Halen—minus David Lee Roth? You know, the [...]

I hope your holidays were swell. Mine were. For a New Year’s resolution I decided my life needed more definition. So like many over the holidays, I succumbed to the peer pressure of purchasing an HD television. I’ve learned that standard definition television is a euphemism. It’s actually low definition. Drunk in the gutter while [...]

I don’t mean to alarm you but there are people watching pornography on their video iPods. I can handle the idea of people watching porn. Whatever you want to do in your place of dwelling is cool. But the prospect of someone sitting next to me on the bus, white headphones and all, watching a [...]

Technology has been blowing my mind lately. It doesn’t take much to blow my mind but nonetheless my mind has been blown. Also, my mind gets blown significantly later than others, so stuff that might have blown your mind a year ago is only now blowing my mind. Yeah I’ve got an iPod and yeah [...]