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The Ultimate Water Gun is off on another mission I finally got off my ass today and sent the Ultimate Water Gun off on its latest mission — to Virginia, where mister Jeremy Justice will be recording his exploits to post for all to see. Well, actually, I convinced my friend and cubicle-partner Kieran Downes…

What rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards stairway four, track four? If you live or work in New York for more than a couple of months, you start thinking of it as the center of the universe. It’s understandable — crack open the New Yorker and you get smart, witty writing…

Kate and I put our wedding invitations in the mail on Saturday, pushing them five at a time through the narrow brass slot at the West Chester Post Office (19382.) We received news that the first invitation had been received on Monday. Cry “Havoc!” and let slip the dogs of… uh… Cry “Havoc!” and let…

Here’s a picture of me discovering a secret ammo box full of goodies in the Delaware woods this weekend. Kate and I visited our first Geocache on Saturday; more pictures and the full story will follow, including the story about how I came to be in possession of an entire, unopened tube of 1960s Mustache…

Okay, no sooner had I made the resolution below than I saw a couple of BMW Yuppies on a new 1200R. Pillion is in shorts, wearing flats, with a dachsund on her lap: it’s a large-as-life rolling remake of the 1963 “You meet the nicest people on a Honda” advertising campaign (that’s a thumbnail of…

After learning about the latest-and-greatest in cheap and tiny digital cameras from Genevieve, I bought a $40.00 Stylecam, which arrived a couple of days ago. It’s perfect for Blogging, I tell myself, because it’s cheap and fast (faster than the PalmPix cam was; you don’t have to assemble the camera first.) So I tuck the…

The 2002 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Winners have been announced, recognizing the most wretched writing on the Web (or anywhere else, for that matter.) A sample: “The bone-chilling scream split the warm summer night in two, the first half being before the scream when it was fairly balmy and calm and pleasant for those who hadn’t…

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My Most Embarassing Moments, Part Two When I was six, my family moved from Austin, Texas (where my dad had been working with the Association for the Understanding of Man, chasing UFOs and working on his book), to Exton, Pennsylvania, where my great-grandfather had moved to work with the Pennsylvania Railroad. We moved into the…

Kiki, My Beach Role Model Kate and I bought a package tour to the Bahamas with Apple vacations; we took a charter flight to Nassau on Southeast Airlines, a carrier we’d never heard of, with a plane ten years older than normal, tiny aquamarine Sixties seats, and flight attendants that hadn’t been hammered into the…