Odd jumbles of random events in one’s life often result in the painful culmination of something called self-realization.
We all do it, you know. We are bred into this culture of self-focused emotions where rather than express things to each other we bundle them up and “teach people lessons” by subtle and secret means [...]

December 31
I started 2006 with a list from 2005: summing up the year, and such. Maybe it should be something of a year-end-blogging tradition: a cap to the “blog every day for a month” exercise. However it shapes up, I’ll keep (or massage) the original questions and add one of my own [...]

December 21
Five Twenty One. The dense autumn air stretches the moments between the cracks in the sidewalk, calling out to find a whisper that dampens the impending second of solstice dawn. The season fades, leaking one last oozing chill across the city, the fading light of that now distant sun spanning towards the waft [...]

December 13
Do you even have one of those days when, despite things moving along at a healthy pace, you just feel like your brain is a sponge that can’t quite soak up any more orange juice?
I was thinking about writing something, but I couldn’t quite find a space to put it in my head. [...]

The lack of cohesion is a direct result of flavorless gray liquid that has lately been dribbling out of my left nostril.
After a particularly depressing round with the television turned up to ninety-four decibels and the Playstation rampant in nothing less than marathon bursts of simulated snowboarding snow-festivals, a plague of midnight modulations in [...]

The difficulty of abstract thought is the feed of it. It becomes an addiction, I suppose, and grounding oneself while in the free fall of work and manic self-improvement is more akin to hitting the ground after the chute doesn’t open, than a gleeful slide down a snowcapped mountain. You’ve been there, right? Caffeinated [...]

Perhaps it’s a little abstract… but then that’s the point.
Everyone with whom I have had more than five minutes worth of conversation these days wants to know: “What did you enjoy most about Europe?” — and I stumble through the fragmented and chaotic answer that, simply, there was just so much to see and so [...]

It looks like a nice day already. I think I might like to go somewhere interesting today. [insert contented sigh here] I think I hear the world calling.
*Ring.*
*Ring.*
“Hello?”
“Yeah… uh… sorry to… uh… call so early, man, but I’ve… uh… been waiting here for a while… uh… now… and… uh…”
“Who is this?”
“Dude! It’s [...]

“Oh, Brad!” You say, your upper lip quivering in a pitiful, graceless display of mental anguish. “Why aren’t you writing more? You said you’d be writing more in 2006.”
“Ah!” I reply, shrugging. “But I have been writing more. I’ve been writing lots and lots more.”
“But, but…” You stutter back.
“You just can’t see [...]

What did you do in 2005 that you’d never done before?
Business Taxes. Yup. Filed a good ol’ T2 for Starkware.
Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Resolution: Avoiding the Walmart — and I didn’t even go in their parking lot in ‘05!
This year, of course. I’ll [...]

A quick note to say that I think congrats are in order. If my information sources are correct (and I’m pretty darn sure they are) my cousin, Herr Stephen Salomons is now officially a married man. A little bird told me there was something of a civil ceremony in a small German politik [...]

I was thinking about coffee this morning as, of course, I sipped a hot cup of my once-daily brew. It seems so odd that there is this stigma around certain beverages in most societies. And even more odd that those stigmas seem to get stronger around the consumption of beverages that take more [...]