Half asleep, I click on the little search window in my web browser and wait for my fingers to type something interesting.

They don't.

Instead, a voice rises in my throat.

"Truth or dare."

It is a challenge to the universe.

"Truth or dare, Google."

Okay... Not the universe ( Read more... )

I just spent the past hour trying to draw a realistic self-portrait for an online drawing class. It looks nothing like me. I don't think I'll be showing that to you anytime soon ( Read more... )

"You know, if I wore a tap-shoe on my left foot, I wouldn't need this drumline to follow me around."

"I need new shoelaces," I thought. And two weeks later, y'know what? I had 'em. Just like that!

Life is wild.

There are days when it's good to be me.

I can't remember any, but I'm still sure that's true. Yay for delusion, huh?

Anyway... If y'all elected to be me this morning, I sincerely apologize. They should have warned you. Come back tomorrow and we'll try to do better?

Left the office at 7:30 last night. Got home at a quarter to midnight. On a good day, my commute's less than two hours. Clearly, this wasn't one of those.

All I can figure is that in a past life, I must have killed a bus driver.

Sorry about that.

It's never what you expect to go missing ( Read more... )

...no, I suppose I haven't.

I'm sitting in a bar, editing web pages with my phone.

...and then blogging about it.

"World Wide Web" has three syllables.

"WWW" has nine.

That's like the worst acronym ever.

Think about it the next time you hear someone spell out a URL on a TV or radio ad. We could have used any prefix imaginable to identify webservers in a domain, and the standard we settled on is "www" (as opposed to, say, "web")This offends my sensibilities ( Read more... )