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My team at [My employer] chipped in and bought me a Palm Pix digital camera for Christmas, and I am really surprised and touched. Thanks, guys! I feel like the sergeant in Monty Python’s Meaning of Life. Wait till they see what I got THEM for the holidays! The camera will come in handy.

Photos of ancestors I wish I had: Ancestor number 1 Ancestor number 2

There was a fight outside of the Christmas display windows at Saks Fifth Avenue when I was there on Saturday night. A fortyish white man with a leather bomber jacket with a round patch sown to the lapel was pointing accusingly at another guy in a baseball hat with a stroller. “You pushed me!” he…

I actually used algebra in a (sort-of) real world application today, to the astonishment of seventh-graders everywhere. I was writing a content management tool for the Twist Magazine homepage, and wanted to make a “preview” function that showed what a component would look like — *before* saving that component to the SQL server database. So…

I have a one-inch Fu Manchu button (a present) on my Dickies jacket now. Now I can be the bong-in-the-van rocker I never was in high school. The buttons are made by Kate’s brother Matt, who has a Philadelphia hardcore band called “Rain on the Parade“, a carefully restored Vespa scooter, and a carefully curled…

A Sign of Armageddon: I went to McDonald’s tonight, and was given BOTH a Golden Dollar and a Susan B. Anthony dollar in change. They are sitting in unholy union on top of my scanner glass right now, two bucks worth of Evil Omen. Boy, how right I was! Seven hours after I posted that…

I went with my friend Jennifer Lindner to see the Oscar De La Joya/Sean Coley fight last February. I e-mailed a few friends about the fight, and my mom asked me to post what I’d written, so here it is! PS. Hi mom!

According to the chart on my bathroom wall (that’s a sticky picture of it,) I’m actually starting to see some results from all the sessions I’ve been having with Jason Bravo, a personal trainer at New York Sports Club. I’m really glad of that, because it HURTS! Also, it’s kind of embarrassing — I’ll go…

According to my mom, my grandmother left her two pieces of advice: “Never carry a package by the string”, and “Never trust a man named Doc or Whitey.” My grandfather had his own sage words, too, like “Never lose altitude unneccessarily.” Now, after bitter experience, a splitting headache, and a day when I was three…

On Tuesday night, after I got done at my desk, I walked a couple of blocks down to the ABC building in Times Square to see David Blaine frozen in a block of ice. There was a long line, composed of Viacom workers from across the street, theatergoers who had just gotten out of their…