I’ve been (gradually) listening to The Comedies of Fair Use, the free downloadable audio version of an NYU symposium on copyfighting and whatnot that took place back in April. It’s incredibly interesting, and I’m not generally the type of person who listens […]
Some time in 2005, I was riding CalTrain to work and listening to my iPod. Again. Hearing music that I liked — stuff that I had rated 5 stars. But I wasn’t really listening. I was flipping through tracks rapidly because I […]
I just got this message from my friend at Bravo: From: <removed> To: klep Subject: Re: What’s up? Dude, you think you’re kidding, but they’ve got this reality show thing down to a science. There’s a form that you fill out to […]
Contrary to any potentially logical explanation, my fear of holding babies had nothing to do with dropping them. I was more afraid of a perfectly calm child being handed to me and deciding to go into his or her freak out state. […]
Working with two separate compact flash cards was a little more complexity than I could handle in India. Due to a mixup with filenames, I ended up overwriting 78 pictures that Marni and I took between Agra and Jaipur. Luckily, I discovered […]
I don’t travel much because I don’t like to go more than a day or two without checking the mail. I also don’t like being in places where I don’t know the language and have to do math to figure out how […]
It’s nice to know that should anything happen with my current Marni, another is just a click away. Is there anything that can’t be bought on the Internet?
Last week, I received this coupon for matzo at the Safeway checkout. All I had purchased that day was a container of Safeway brand Butternut Squash soup — hardly the epitome of Jewish food. What possible reason could Safeway have for giving […]
Several people have asked me what it was like to write a tech book so I thought I’d describe the overall process for the benefit of others who are considering it. Getting the Gig The deal came about in a roundabout way. […]
When I was in High School, I did pretty well in AP English, but it wasn’t entirely deserved. Much of the class involved reading something and writing an interpretation. Every time our teacher (the extraordinary Doc Taylor) would tell us the correct […]