My Office Coffee Setup
Tuesday, 29 June 2010Blogging about the everyday things of life is better than not blogging at all, right? My long descent into coffee snobbery is worth chronicling some time, but not tonight. This morning, though, my local coffee roaster posted about his office coffee setup. (Nova Roast is a sibling business to The Easy Chair Coffee Shop. The [...]
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Tick Tock…
Tuesday, 30 March 2010As it turns out, giving up Facebook and Twitter for Lent has been really hard. Getting over the initial itchy reload finger – the addiction thing that I was trying to combat with the whole exercise – wasn’t that hard. But after that was over, the pain set in. While I knew that I enjoyed using [...]
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Half Birthday
Thursday, 11 March 2010I realized this afternoon that it was my half birthday. A quarter of the way through my fourth decade, I am now 32.5 years old. Don’t tell Becky, but I think that I am in love with Alison Krauss. So, in honor of my half birthday, a few lyrics from my favorite song of the [...]
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Welcome to the Paperless Future
Friday, 26 February 2010I’m leaving on a week-long business trip on Sunday. So, at the office today I gathered together the papers that I’ll need in the next week. Here they are. And I wonder why my bag is so heavy. I need to get better at reviewing and editing documents without killing trees, apparently.
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Giving It Up…
Sunday, 21 February 2010As I did my internet ablutions, which lately have involved checking Twitter, Facebook, Google Reader, and Email, early last Wednesday morning (Ash Wednesday), I found that a friend on Facebook had announced on Tuesday night that she was giving up Facebook for Lent. It immediately struck me as a good idea. I gave myself a [...]
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Infinite Jest
Sunday, 24 January 2010Before David Foster Wallace committed suicide in 2008, I didn’t even know his name. After his death, though, wails of mourning went up amongst several people that I read and admire on the internets. So, I started poking around the edges, reading some of his essays, many from this great “in memoriam” page that Harper’s [...]
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