Three years ago, when I decided if I was going to get an undergraduate degree in anything, it might as well be journalism, I had no idea the profession was about to undergo major changes. Everything changed within days of my setting foot at the J-school: September 11th. Then Jayson Blair, Stephen Glass, the war [...]

No post today. Those two things are not necessarily related.

Saturday my girlfriend looked out the front window to see a police officer inspecting the hood of her car, like a biology student on a fieldtrip. But he was writing on a notepad that, regardless of his off-duty interests, looked an awful lot like it was full of blank parking tickets.
“But that’s impossible,” we said [...]

If I make a movie by the time I’m 29, or for that matter, ever, God help me. Because the things I’m about to say about Garden State, written and directed by 29-year-old Zach Braff, are not the kinds of things I would like anyone to say to me.
But he is rich now, and famous, [...]

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I’m preparing a presentation on blogs and RSS for our next staff meeting at work, and I thought I’d talk a little about what I’ve found and what I think.
Most of the people I work with are familiar with blogs to varying degrees. A few people regularly read at least one (Kos, Drudge, The [...]

I am not, nor have I ever been, a gun owner. Nonetheless I can see why some people might feel the need to have one; renting them at the shooting range isn’t cheap. And also there are times – let us all hope we never experience them – when a gun is not necessarily a [...]

New taillights! Yes! I am the best, with my new, un-cracked rear indicators. Take that, Tercel! I will eventually fix all your broken parts, and there’s nothing you can do to stop me (beyond, of course, breaking at a faster rate than I can fix).
The rear lights (brake and signal) have been broken even [...]

Labor Day; to point out the irony of its title is no great accomplishment. If it’s a day of labor, why doesn’t anybody work? This is the stuff of hospital-lounge stand-up acts. And even (or especially) there it would be ill received.
Still, Labor Day is no slouch. Aptly named it is not, but in [...]

I’m deep in the soup of competing high speed internet plans. There about seventeen different ways to do this, which is funny since there’s only one company to do it through: Comcast.
What ever happened to the free market? My options for HSI are simple; Comcast or Comcast. DSL isn’t available, so that leaves cable, [...]