Random Update Round-Up
1) Spindle: It’s where the majority of my free (and not-so-free) time has gone the past week as I’ve been tweaking things in the background since the site “soft launched” last Wednesday. I pulled some different featured content to the front for those not inclined to wandering the City aimlessly — something I plan to do on
Spindle Soft Launch
Spindle, Orange Logo http://www.spindlezine.com is now live! The soft launch, actually, but with a good amount of content to give a sense of which part of left field I’m coming from with this thing while still leaving plenty more surprises to come. Please take a look, poke around the site a bit, see if you
QotD: The Fall TV Season
What shows are you looking forward to in the new fall TV season? K-ville and, of course, Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice. K-Ville – FOX Trailer I caught the preview for K-ville on Jet Blue a couple of times last month and it looks really good; a gritty spin on the Miami Vice formula, set in post-Katrina
Take me back to Cancun!
Back-to-School 2007 Even though I’ve not been to work since Friday, August 24th, my vacation pretty much ended the minute we landed at JFK last Wednesday evening. Within minutes, no matter how often I supressed them, thoughts of back-to-work and back-to-school things-to-do steadily flooded my brain, and not even my new Nintendo DS and Pokemon Diamond could completely defeat
Cancun & the New School Year
Cancun 2008 We had a GREAT time in Cancun, as memorable a vacation as I’ve ever had, and took a ton of pictures, the best of which are up on Flickr at the link. There’s some more from the Underground River in Xcaret — my new favorite vacation destination — that I need to get developed the
Top 10 Must-Reads
Let’s make a meme-ory! If I had to choose 10 books to recommend to someone as representatives of my personal favorite reads, it’d look a little something like this (today, at least): Fool on the Hill by Matt RuffGates of Fire by Steven PressfieldLa Perdida by Jessica AbelLadies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning by Jonathan
QotD: Life-Changing Decision
What decision changed the course of your life? Submitted by Ally. December 9, 1996: After much internal debate, getting off the line to exit the parking lot at Jersey City State College, parking my car, and unexpectedly jumping into a classmate’s car to clumsily explain to her that, despite having a very good reason to
Killer App: Scrabulous @ Facebook
Scrabble Tournament Ad from France Because the last thing I need is another Web 2.0 distraction, I avoided Facebook when it first opened up to everybody. I’m on MySpace and [used to] barely ever log in except to delete friends requests from newly relocated single girls who think I’m cute and want to share their nude
Mr. Mom, Day One
Picnic Spread Salomé’s away for the next few days so it’s just me and the kids which, unfortunately means the kids and a babysitter since I’m at work every day this week. Originally, they were going to be down at my mother’s place in Virginia, but schedules got twisted around and they’re not going down until
38 Years Old?!?!
Leos Rule Well, damn! There was a time in my early 20s when I was convinced I was going to kill myself on my 30th birthday because I knew life pretty much hit the downslope at that point. Dumbass. I got married one month before my 29th birhday, after a decade of attempting to make “30