Sometimes, I just look at an ancient piece of TV I did with 25-year-old technology, and I say to myself, wow, if I could redo all of that in crisp, clean high-res vectors now… Brap-brap-brap! Kurabati! Islamabad! Nashville! Decatur! The earth! The universe! The news channel. Oh by the way, the original kinda survives on this [...]...

Growing up in a sixties Ohio white bread environment doesn't do a lot to provide you with an understanding of what food is good for you (after all, they test-marketed Pringles where I lived) and, well, besides, good information on nutrition seems to have evolved at about the same rate as the commercial food industry [...]...

From time to time I get asked to beta-test new versions of software, and of course there's just the common experience of taking a new online service out for a spin. That's when I'll discover something, not necessarily something you'd label a "bug," not really a "feature," but a way the thing works that just [...]...

Okay, so, yeah, we've been busy, what with dealing with insurance people and contractors and so on, but on a muggy Atlanta July Sunday morning, I find myself tilting toward optimism. We have a roofline again. We have a ceiling (well, we have a subfloor) over our dining room again. We have had entertaining framers [...]...

So I went to high school in Ohio with this nice Polish-Italian gal, Michele, who married this guy Dave Daubenmire, who has, in the name of radically fundamental "christian family values", dragged his family through one embarrassing abomination after another. There was Coach Dave's (he was once allowed to coach football at a small Ohio high [...]...