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What with so much itinerant wandering between Boston, Philly, and (occasionally New York), I’ve been bothered by the fact that my webcam has been showing a mostly empty chair at [My employer]. It’s the principle of the thing, really — if your website purports to show a porthole into the poster’s world, it should jolly…

On my dad’s recommendation, I stayed at Habitat NY last night, a European-style hotel on 57th and Lexington with the bathrooms and showers down the hall. If all you want is a place to crash, it’s fine — and the price is right. It’s a quirky place — the first room I was given didn’t…

I drove my rental car back to NYC this morning, and realized that after taking public transportation for eight years, I’m a junior-varsity driver in a varsity-league commute. I got cut off again and again in my beat-up Hyundai, and kept getting mad for no reason, really. I wonder if there’s any other daily activities…

Kate and I closed on our house on Thursday morning; there were eight people around the table — two real estate agents (ours and theirs), two buyers, two sellers, a mortgage broker, and a title clerk, all very friendly and nice. We signed form after form, initialed page after page, and there was some good-natured…

Planes, Trains, Automobiles, Boats, Subways, Buses. [Last night: slept on the couch at my friend Michelle’s apartment on Grand street] 4:45 AM: Wake up, catch car service to LaGuardia Marine Terminal. 6:00 AM: Delta Shuttle to Boston 7:00 AM: Shuttle bus to Water Taxi 7:20 AM: Water Taxi boat ride across Boston’s Inner Harbor 7:35…

Apaches at the stockade fence; post-apocalyptic renegades in the engine room? I was sitting in a borrowed conference room at the Bridgespan Group in Boston last Thursday, and was just getting ready for 90 minutes of frantic pre-meeting HTML tweaking, when a forest of IMs popped up on my screen: all my office-mates were let…

Remember, Jesus is with you always. And his merchandising sucks. Essay question for the day: Why is Christian graphic design so crappy and derivative? I mean, come on! When I was a full-time Christian in college, I remember getting badgered to listen to Christian bands, which meant buying Petra CDs and not pulling my hair…

This is a picture that I took the other day on the Amtrak train, because the guy in the suspenders was so frowny. A couple of people have told me it looks like it’s from an Amtrak brochure. Look! Rust-brown decor! Frowny guys in suspenders! Gleeful geeks with wireless connections taking surreptitious pictures and posting…

Sorry to join the B&T set? Not hardly. On Sunday, I rolled up my tent, packed my sleeping bag, and walked out of my apartment, leaving the keys in the mailbox before I closed the vestibule door. Yep, I moved out of the city — and for the next ten days, until Kate and I…

Useful things on the Internet: The list of *really* useful things on the Internet is pretty short: Yodlee, Project Gutenberg, Moviefone, and now this, from James Lileks: how to tell the year your house was built by looking under the lid of the toilet.