"What do you believe in?"

"Honesty," he answers.

-He very keenly remembers that one day in sixth grade, and will remember it for the rest of his life. He was ten, and there was a playground to play on during lunch, and he remembers well the monkey bars and the swings and the sequence of events: the other kid playing on the monkey bars, the kid ( Read more... )

Looking back at the texts and messages, he sees hints and suggestions from months ago - but for him, it starts on a Monday afternoon ( Read more... )

You met the girl of my dreams, I want to tell him, and now you're getting married to her. You dated her for these last years, and now you're engaged, and soon enough...

It's not my place to judge, to question, to wonder, so I stop that, now. I will keep my peace, as I should: it stopped being my decision over three years ago ( Read more... )

We sit here, facing each other across this coffee table, mugs in hand. A moment passes, and then another, and one more - and nothing happens.

"Isn't it getting to be that time?" You'll eventually ask, and I will ponder the sentiment for a multitude of moments. And just when I know that you're about to tell me that, in fact, I'm definitely running ( Read more... )

2012 was a year. Not a bad year, by any means, it just doesn't seem like it will be a year that will last in my memory. My job/career/workplace/coworkers are awesome, my friends are super, and my family is wonderful; I could not ask for more ( Read more... )

Hey guys,

I'm doing this thing again for the holidays. I'm heading out to Austin, Texas, for a week, and I'd like to get some writing done. Last year, it was a mishmash of requests, and while I still owe some people a few (which you'll see in the next few days, I promise), I also think it was also some of my best writing - including a long form ( Read more... )

We reached a milestone today at work and have something to show for it. This:

https://www.dropbox.com/100m

I threw it up on twitter, prefacing it with three words: why we fight.

I feel like the new friend feed may be a bit icky because it doesn't respect personal themes, which presumably people pick for a reason... but on the other hand, it geekily allows you to navigate posts through the traditional vim J/K keys, which I find super useful (other places this can be used: Gmail, Google Reader, reddit with res[As an addendum ( Read more... )

Short thoughts on:

Movies:

• Cloud Atlas is really good, and I recommend you go see it. I'm actually speaking very personally here, where you is literally, you, reading this right now, as you are probably a writer, and Cloud Atlas is, at its core, a work of art for writers like us. There's an interesting framing device that the movie uses where it ( Read more... )

This last weekend, I went to the semi-annual gathering of about 70,000 people in Boston for a convention known as PAXEast - The Penny Arcade Expo, East Coast. It's a three day convention that attracts gamers of all types, showcases new and unreleased games, and has panels by some of the notable people in the industry on all sorts of topics in ( Read more... )