Another Valentine's Day come and gone. Today was Katie's birthday too. I went to the mailroom for a few hours to cover for Katie so she could spend the day with her mom, enjoyed some free time being lazy at home, then off to work. We have a different trainer for our last week... she's awesome. A little quirky, but entertaining and keeps our ( Read more... )

Why Race Isn't as 'Black' and 'White' as We Think
By BRENT STAPLES
The New York Times
Editorial Observer
October 31, 2005People have occasionally asked me how a black person came by a "white" name like Brent Staples. One letter writer ridiculed it as "an anchorman's name" and accused me of making it up. For the record, it's a British name - and the ( Read more... )

Do You MySpace?
By ALEX WILLIAMS
The New York Times
August 28, 2005

LOS ANGELES - IT seems a hazy memory, but Keith Wilson, a spiky-haired club promoter, can recall what it was like before MySpace - about two years ago. Back then people had normal names like "Joe" or "Keith ( Read more... )

Worse Than Death
By John Tierney
New York Times Op-Ed Columnist
Published: July 12, 2005Last year a German teenager named Sven Jaschan released the Sasser worm, one of the costliest acts of sabotage in the history of the Internet. It crippled computers around the world, closing businesses, halting trains and grounding airplanes ( Read more... )

One Nation, With Niches for All
By STACY SCHIFF
June 11, 2005
The New York TimesE. B. White claimed he knew his wife was the girl for him when she referred to dental floss as "tooth twine." I take his point. I also tried to buy "tooth twine" recently. By any name, that is an exercise in frustration, or affluence-induced A.D.D., or option overload ( Read more... )

wow, haven't updated in two days! lol. Sunday I slept in til 2:30, visited Katie in the mailroom for a while, went grocery shopping, then sat around the apt the rest of the day. This morning was bowling, I bowled 125, 116 and 123. That should definitely help my average. After I got out of my second class I checked my mail and had a nice big package ( Read more... )

A Family Tree in Every Gene
By ARMAND MARIE LEROI
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
The New York Times
Published: March 14, 2005London - Shortly after last year's tsunami devastated the lands on the Indian Ocean, The Times of India ran an article with this headline: "Tsunami May Have Rendered Threatened Tribes Extinct." The tribes in question were the Onge, ( Read more... )

Internet Fame Is Cruel Mistress for a Dancer of the Numa Numa
By ALAN FEUER and JASON GEORGE
The New York TimesPublished: February 26, 2005 ( Read more... )

A Not So Wonderful Life
By Maureen Dowd
New York Times Op-Ed Columnist
December 19, 2004EXTERIOR BRIDGE OVER POTOMAC RIVER - NIGHT ( Read more... )

Buzzing the Web on a Meme Machine
By Sarah Boxer
October 26, 2004
The New York TimesThe Web is obsessed with anything that spreads, whether it's a virus, a blog or a rumor. And so the Internet loves memes ( Read more... )