The folks over at Non-Prophet Status are indulging in this secular Lent thing, where they all give up something for 40 days because, well, I don’t know why. They’re weird, what can I say? Maybe they think it’ll make them better people to go without something for so long. Oh, except Chris Stedman, who’s just …
Monthly Archive: February 2013
Feb 11 2013
Dear Roman Catholics: Pick Me!
His creepiness Pope Benedict XVI is going to resign at the end of the month, and before anybody gets any ideas, I want to throw my hat into the ring to be the new guy wearing the giant, ridiculous hat. Why Paul for Pope? I’ll lend an unprecedented breath of fresh air to a decaying …
Feb 09 2013
Is Not the Truth the Truth? – Galileo as Falstaff
Go ahead and let this passage from a wonderful piece on Galileo by Adam Gropnik in The New Yorker blow your mind. What would Shakespeare’s Galileo have been, one wonders, had he ever written him? Well, in a sense, he had written him, as Falstaff, the man of appetite and wit who sees through the …
Feb 08 2013
Words, Once Said, Can Never Be Unsaid
I can’t help but think that Justin Timberlake, perhaps many years from now, will find himself unable to sleep some nights, haunted by these words: Bud Light Platinum brings a refined discerning aesthetic to beer that plays well with what I’m doing. Does it, Justin? Does it really?
Feb 07 2013
The Game Should Leave an Imprint
With a few exceptions, I haven’t been into video games in a very long time. Part of that is, of course, being a grownup with a job and a family, which leaves little time for, well, anything. (And I genuinely have no idea how folks with jobs and families can devote the hours they do …
Feb 06 2013
The Stream of Invective, a Price Well Paid
Wikipedian Brandon Harris takes to Quora to talk about how he felt being the subject of a lot of Internet derision during his famous banner appearances throughout Wikipedia’s fundraising drive. His words were, to say the least, helpful. None of it is real. There is a stream of invective from people saying that I look …
Feb 04 2013
Shame
What’s not news is that high school is, for many, hell. But the effects of one’s experiences during adolescence (and for this purpose I’ll use “high school” as shorthand for the general puberty-through-adolescence time period, which can include middle school and junior high) are often minimized, at least in my anecdotal experience. For most of …
Feb 03 2013
Apple and Wanting to Belong
Fast Company has a rich examination of what might be contributing to the (perceived) degradation of good feelings about Apple by Bruce Nussbaum. This passage I feel boils down the argument for the most part (though I recommend the entire piece), and I want to break it apart a little. The gist is that the …
Feb 03 2013
Too Cute By Half
You know, I actually kind of dig Seth Godin. He really does drop some useful wisdom about work and creativity here and there, things I do try to remember and take to heart. But then, you know, he’s also Seth Godin, the “look at the mischievous upper-half-of-my-bald-skull” guy who is, let’s face it, sometimes pushing …
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