Flying home today from my ancestral homeland of Vermont to my adopted ancestral birthplace of Portland I am amazed at the amount of conveyor belts at Newark Int’l Airport.
The airport is the most conveyor belt-dense region of the world of today, and it will only get more impressive according to the experts. Eventually airports will [...]
Note: I returned from Puerto Rico a couple days ago. I am working on a travel guide series for miserable people, and here is a selection from the Puerto Rico edition:
The Miserable Traveler’s Guide to Puerto Rico
The first thing to know about Puerto Rico is that it is technically a part of the [...]
This is the start of an obsession, I think. My buddy Danny sent over this great ad from the “Writing Gigs” section of Portland’s Craigslist:
Mira, Mistress of Destiny
Reply to: the21writer@alumni.marymount.edu
Date: 2008-01-01, 3:05AM
I’ve written both a novel and a screenplay about a female Maya shaman who leads her people.
My search leads me to seek [...]
I am still in Puerto Rico, and I made a video about it. Click here.
I am going to Puerto Rico with the family for a week starting today. We like to have big, blowout fights in exotic locales where people don’t know the language so they can’t discern all of our embarrassing secrets. I don’t know anything about this country(?) besides [...]
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This is dumb:
How I will ask the woman I love to marry me (part 2) from Adrian Chen on Vimeo.
See Part 1
Perhaps you have heard that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney misled voters in his much-publicized speech addressing his Mormonism on Dec. 6th? To prove that Mormons are normal (i.e. not racist), Romney spoke about how he saw his father, former Michigan Governor George Romney, march with Martin Luther King Jr. in the sixties. Because [...]
I am home in Vermont and spent the last hour working on a mock-up of a new layout for WOT. HINT:
I am in the airport now, about to board Continental Flight 784 to Newark. (So if you terrorists are planning on blowing it up, don’t. Also, terrorists, why are you reading my blog? There is nothing for you here. Go read Slate!) I should be boarding right now, but instead I am finishing this blog [...]
Nordic skiing was more awesome in the past
This weekend I took a cross-country skiing trip up to Mt. Hood to celebrate the ends of finals week. I have not been cross-country skiing in a long time. Standing there in my bright orange jacket, wool hat, perched barely on two slender slats of wood [...]
