I’d love to know who the jackass was who started saying Orange County was “the OC.” Maybe I’m missing something, seeing how I haven’t lived there since I was eighteen, but I never heard anyone attach the definite article in front of those initials until that show with the same […]
Beer: The Universal Currency
One of the highlights of Christmas with my folks was my brother showing us the web site for Utenos beer, one of the many fine brews we had on our trip to Lithuania a few years ago (I dug vyturys Baltijos myself, but the UT was good). Well, not the […]
Click Early, Click Often!
Last summer, I worked on a search engine ad campaign. It was fun once I got the hang of the system, though it was also a bit scary: I was playing with real money, and in larger amounts than I’m used to seeing. While it was tempting to take the […]
Resolutions for 2005
1) Produce twelve short stories, three per quarter. 2) Get at least two of ’em published. 3) Make myself so invaluable at work that they shower me with coupons for sushi and scented handkerchiefs. 4) Be sexy. 5) Figure out how to inflict Irritable Bowel Syndrome on the jackholes who […]