Last night, the Lakers lost big to the Blazers. The Blazers are a fun team to watch–a talented, young group of guys coached into a really watchable brand of ball–and got up big in the first half. They continued their dominance in the third quarter against a positively Van Gundian defensi...

When I was very young, I wanted to be an architect. And then in college, for a while I wanted to pursue materials science. And then I found International Relations, and I wanted to become a diplomat. Unfortunately none of these things irritated me much.* And I’m realizing that the things I do, the...

Or: why the internet can be sweet for watching sports. Also: how easy it is to screw it up. I’ve recently become rather addicted to web video, but not in the viral/YouTube sense. In fact, I hardly ever look at youtube without a recommendation from a friend. But with Hulu, Netflix, and iTunes o...

Writing makes a difference. Show some love to the writers in your life this week, and pray that they give you work like this: Instead of work like this: I’m sorry to whoever was involved in this… but I’m just not feeling it. And to top it all off, I was watching an episode of The O...

The above image is from the Feltron 2007 Annual Report. It’s cool, check it out. You’re asking for a punch in the face with all that salesy crap. I’ve been chatting a lot about social media and its implications with my HY homies of late, as many of them have hopped on to Twitter an...

I wrote this while in the bath yesterday after reading a passage in Colonialism/Postcolonialism (Loomba, 1998). I think there is more to the following thoughts, but this is what I’ve come up with so far. These are some of the things I thought about that got me to start writing: Why social medi...

A while back, a couple of friends in Atlanta called to ask if my buddies and I could help them with a site they were launching called Riding Resource. Word has it, it’s hard as hell to find a quality place to ride horses today despite the omnipotence of Google. After a load of hard work, inclu...

The other night I made risotto for a friend. Risotto, if you’re unaware, is a rice dish with all kinds’a good stuff in it. Sorry for the short description; I’m no Alton Brown. No descriptions of emulsification and lipid profiles here, thank-you-very-much. Also, if you’ve neve...

This morning on the train to Milwaukee, I read an article on Slate about Jeff Jarvis. Like the author of the piece, Ron Rosenbaum, I used to read Jarvis on a frequent basis while I was getting this blog started; I think my dad still reads him frequently, and they exchanged a couple emails once about...

Launching my own site makes me smile. So a few weeks ago, my buddies and I launched our “real” site for our semi-real side project, Hustlewood. A couple years ago, we were sitting around, two of us boozing (one is allergic) and all talking about how to build a web community around cyclin...