What if you could TiVo your life?
In a primitive way, it’s feasible right now. You could get a small video camera with a long-lasting battery. You could find a similar way of recording sound (or just use the camera’s microphone). Then you’d have a cell phone or something to transmit all that data to [...]

In terms of household imagery, I don\’t there is anything more telling than a bathroom door with holes smashed in it.
Principally, I think this a problem families with only one bathroom have to face. If you have enough bathrooms and water pressure for everybody to relieve themselves and flush at the same time, you\’re living [...]

It seems nobody likes journalism as much as the journalists (from the Boston Globe):

At a time when public distrust of the news media appears to be at a dangerously high level, there is evidence of a deep and fundamental disagreement between those who produce news and those who consume it.
Although most journalists believe quality [...]

I went to a high school bowling league last night to take pictures for a class. I was expecting a pretty big group – come on, it\’s bowling! – but there were about seven people there. Undaunted, I made the best of it, and it turned out to be a pretty fun photo shoot.
I [...]

A bug is dying in my ceiling lamp.
He buzzes with the determination only a dying bug can have. He\’s determined because he knows he\’s dying.
For my part, I am thrilled.
This is my house, fool. Tell your friends it is inhospitable. If you survive, that is.
And I hope you don\’t.
These bugs come into my house uninvited. [...]

I find it very difficult to believe the federal government of the United States passed a law stating that all passengers on a bus must be behind the white line before the bus can move.
And yet, that\’s what the driver on the bus yesterday morning told us, as we waited at a particularly popular stop [...]

A huge archive of editorial cartoons by Dr. Seuss, organized by category. This one\’s from November 3, 1941, and is filed in the category \”Inactivity\”.

Dr. Menlo is a writer who says he\’ll commit suicide, live on the internet, if he doesn\’t get a writing job by April, 2005. I don\’t know if that\’s the best way to get a job, but it\’s a good way to attract attention.

Photo credit: Squirrel.com
This afternoon I walked down the street to the mailbox. It was sunny a warm enough that my skin didn\’t shudder when I leaned my arm against the metal pole of the streetlight.
When I got to the box, I went through my customary moment of paralyzing fear right before I dropped the mail [...]

That\’s what it would be called if we celebrated Passover on a bridge above a highway.
Luckily, my family long ago abandoned that ritual. We now eat indoors, at the table, in a clean and pleasant environment.
Or, we did, until this year. That\’s because my mom\’s house – where we normally celebrate – is under heavy [...]