I was an English major, and have acquired an entire bookcase worth of novels, plays, literary anthologies, criticism, classics, and poetry collections that I know I will never--ever--read again. And sprinkled in with that are a healthy dosage of books ...Read More
One winter, a farmer found a snake, stiff and frozen with cold. He had compassion on it and, taking it up, placed it in his bosom. The Snake was quickly revived by the warmth and, resuming its natural instincts, bit ...Read More
I just signed up for Evernote. What a fantastic site. I've been waiting 10 years for something like this. After a decade of emailing little notes and such back and forth between home and the office, I now have it ...Read More
A couple updates to my experiment in Windows without the bullshit:
E-Mail Client: The Interwebs After playing around with every email client I could think of, and consulting with a knowledgeable friend about it, I realized that none of them do ...Read More
The Windows installation on my home computer started getting sluggish, so I decided to reinstall it. And I got this idea that I wanted to build a computer that used open source software wherever possible.
I realized pretty quickly that what ...Read More
The Barack Obama font is Gotham, which is available here. It's really quite expensive; the complete package, with various weights, bolds, italics, and so forth, will run you almost US$400. If you look hard enough for it, you can probably ...Read More
[caption id="attachment_335" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Gyromite"][/caption]If I ever had a job where I had to take the commuter rail into the office, you'd better believe that I'd be making one of these for myself. Read More
[caption id="attachment_303" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Honda Accord"][/caption]I think that it would be nice to restore an old Japanese car to showroom condition. I wonder how much time, money, and expertise you need to pull off something like this. Read More
Quite funny. But everyone knows that if there was ever a font to save the day, it would be Helvetica. Or, at the very least, Garamond. Read More
Good news. After poking around on the web for a while, it looks like I can not only replace the hard drive in my iPod, but I can also upgrade it to a 100GB model. The Toshiba MK1011GAH drive provides ...Read More