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 […]
There’s a strange segment of the population so disaffected with their lives and the state of the world that they imagine themselves fitting in better at another point in history. They seem to forget that the world for much of human history has pretty much sucked.
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