2012: Products I can’t live without
Back in 2010, inspired by lists created by tech geeks like Michael Arrington and Kevin Rose, I created a list of products I could not live without. Today I present…
I can totally picture that in my head.
The following descriptions can be found in Oliver Sacks’ THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT AND OTHER CLINICAL TALES. They describe a man who awoke one morning…
Parenting is supposed to make you sad, frightened and neurotic. Don’t make your kids suffer by mitigating the pain.
When I was a boy, I spent much of my summer at a Camp Yawgoog, a Boy Scout camp in Rockville, Rhode Island. My troop would spend a week at…
The right way to make a commercial
I rarely watch any television that has not been pre-recorded. As a result, I almost never see commercials anymore. I simply fast-forward past them, thus denying the advertisers of their…
Can I re-write a book from my back list the same way Def Leppard re-recorded songs and now owns their rights?
Def Leppard, a band that provided much of the soundtrack of my youth, has re-recorded its backlist in an effort to regain financial control of their music.With newly recorded "forgeries" of "Pour…
Does Wikipedia have a a woman problem or do women have a Wikipedia problem?
Torie Bosch of Slate wrote a piece about a recent debate on Wikipedia over the validity of an entry on Kate Middleton’s bridal gown as a means of illustrating the…
Zapped!
While I was home alone for four days recently, I was reminded about how much easier it is to die when you live alone. Carrying the dog downstairs one evening,…
Signage for the stupid
Honestly, people… who the hell continues to do this? It must be the same moron, traveling from public restroom to public restroom, dropping paper towel after paper towel into the…
More from The Baby Whisperer
My wife and kids spent the last three days in the Berkshires with the in-laws while I remained stuck in Connecticut for work. As always, my in-laws took remarkable care…
Church of the Holy Penis
Our longtime friends, Charles and Justine, moved to Arizona last week, and I am deeply saddened by their departure. Charles was a professor of physics at the University of Connecticut…
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