Forgive me. I was going to say that I’ve been busy, but the fact is that I’ve been busier and still found time to post something up in this website. So what have I been up to, anyway? A lot of things, I guess. Allow me to enumerate. 1. Work. It’s a fact. I’ve been [...]
Category Archives: Entertain Me
Work, School, and the Movies
17-Mar-08Television Update
09-Jul-06I wrote in my last post about how our hulking new HDTV has changed my life, how I now find myself watching whatever is being broadcast in high definition, simply for the sake of watching things in high definition. Since writing that entry, things have really gotten out of hand. I’ve spent a disgraceful amount [...]
Highly Defined
22-Jun-06After nearly two weeks away from home, I returned to find a monster in the living room. It’s a hulking creature, sleek and shapely, poised and ready for action. As I cautiously circled the room, the beast sat still, silent, waiting for my command. Then, with a simple motion of my hand, the creature came [...]
A Perfect… Five.
18-May-06As legend has it, it was while stepping into a bathtub that the mathematician Archimedes discovered his law of buoyancy. Just as submerging himself into the bathtub raised the level of water around him, he determined that could other objects could be submerged in water to calculate their volume. So elated was Archimedes by his [...]
Of Counties and Cars
12-Apr-06I’m beginning to think that the people at the New Yorker purposely deliver their magazine to Brooklyn subscribers one day after they have landed in Manhattan mailboxes. Every Tuesday, I enviously watch commuters flip through the latest issue, shamed to know that the only “Talk of the Town” that I’m hip to is now last [...]