Monthly Archives: June 2008

The Song of the Bourgeois

So I’ve taken up golf lately. Maybe I’m shaking off my inborn liberal guilt, but I’ve really been enjoying myself, despite all the injuries and searing torso pain.

The Failwhale

From Wil Wheaton: Twitter is riding the failwhale to failtown. I love Twitter, and watching it die a slow death is breaking my heart. Now that replies and tracking are down, what’s the point?

5. The Worst-Case Scenario

(Written in early 2005; this was the only column I ever wrote for my college newspaper.) We, as a species, have a habit of expecting that the worst thing possible is exactly what will happen, if for no other reason than it so seldom does. This preparation in the mind – to expect abject terror,

Sunset Soon Forgotten

The other day, Diana turned to me while we were both working in the office – hers, an early draft of a term paper; mine, some risk analyst thing or another about bridges and tunnels – and she said “Did you know that we don’t really remember things as they happened?”

4. Letters From The Front

(The proverbial oldie but goodie for starters.)