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Where was my self-confidence in junior high school, when I needed it? All day today, and I do mean alllllll day today, I’ve been normalizing data on the Soaps In Depth websites. Trouble is, the tables I’m working on are already populated with data, and it’s really really really tedious. But I’m learning to normalize…

Mini cooper! Mini COOPER!! MINI COOPER!!! Must… resist… power… of… incredibly cool… small… car… resistance weakening… http://www.miniusa.com If you log in as username “tikaro”, password “tikaro”, you can see the Mini Cooper S that I’m running towards across a sunny, sun-flooded field of poppies: “John!” “Mini Cooper!” “John!” “Mini Cooper!” Just go to “Build Your…

I’ve been traveling up and down from Philly to New York to Boston a whole lot in the past couple of months. On Monday, of this week, for example, I woke up in Philly, traveled to Boston for the day, and went back to New York for the night. Today, Wednesday, another day trip to…

like Sebastian Flyte said: if you look like you need it, people won’t want to give it to you.Also, baleful stares don�t help. Due to our fond memories of the Exton mall, Kate and I thought we’d try to get our wedding rings there. Hey, it’s a metal band, how ghetto can it get? Pretty…

If you told me at seventeen that I�d be sentimental for a mall, I�d have biffed you in the nose. Kate and I both grew up in the same part of the country — Whitford, Pennsylvania, about thirty miles west of Philadelphia in the Great Valley. We both remember trips to the Exton Mall as…

I was getting jiggy with my wireless connection on the Amtrak train last night, connecting to my Bauer bulkmail server over a telnet connection, broadcasting the latest news about ABC’s plot lines (“Heavens! Death comes to Port Charles!“) Meanwhile, the train was crawling along at a snail’s pace — someone had been hit and killed…

More fun with an empty apartment: (animated GIF, ~300K):

I was torn, this morning, between writing about: The bad ten dollar bill a bagel-and-coffee vendor gave me this morning, The fact that the cafe attendant on the Acela Express train was watching a bootleg copy of “Showtime” on the big video screens, or The hard-core introspection I did in my empty apartment last night.…

My friend Alejandro Rubio has decided to extend his stay in Antarctica, spending the winter (until late August) surrounded by galvanized aluminum, Polartec fleece, and cool-looking Star Wars vehicles. And shut off from postal mail, UPS, and Amazon.com deliveries. I think it’s super-cool; Alejandro’s at the age when young men should be gathering cool stories…

I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds. Well, no, but I did move several notches up the spammer ladder today, as I learned how to broadcast the lastest news about Nick Carter and the “cute boy collectible MEGA posters of Aaron, Fred Durst, Sub 41, O-Town, Eminem, and ‘N Sync”, available in this month’s…