About a year ago, I rented Martian Child from Netflix. In it, a middle-aged single writer reaches a certain age and, not having found someone to start a family with, adopts a kid on his own. My interest in the movie stemmed from the thought of someday doing the same sort of thing. I was […]
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My friend, Brooke, is a … biostatistician? epidemiologist? I don’t know, something with AIDS. In an effort to convince her to use Twitter, I came up with a few sample usernames she could adopt. twitter.com/ifitaintbrookedontfixit twitter.com/dontjudgeabrookebyitscover twitter.com/brookierthanthou twitter.com/effyeahbrooke twitter.com/broooooooooke (that’s nine o’s) twitter.com/justnytposts twitter.com/withafewfrommcsweenys twitter.com/ilovezombies twitter.com/biostatsreferece twitter.com/somesciencecrap twitter.com/imrunningoutofideas and finally: twitter.com/ifinallyseethevalueintwitterallthankstoclint
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Once when I was a kid, I had a nightmare about being chased by Jason from the Friday the 13th movies. The dream was completely inacurate, because I had never seen Friday the 13th, or even knew what Jason looked like. My entire experience with the film had been the VHS movie case at my […]
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The St. Regis Hotel in downtown San Francisco was probably the poshest hotel I’ve ever been in. The phone had a touchscreen LCD, which was kind of lame, until I discovered I could touch a button to have housekeeping sent up, turn on the “Do Not Disturb” light, raise and lower the blinds, and a […]