My well-travelled shoes: Fort Lauderdale, Florida Some people go on vacation to recharge themselves and let them continue with the work from which they took a break. Other people go on vacation to see what more the world has to offer beyond the narrow tunnel around them that their work has become. I think the… Continue reading this entry
A stranger on the bus sits, reading the paper. I’ve learned over the four years I’ve live in Maryland that everyone chats up everyone. Even the surliest faces open up to conversation, if but to break the palpable silence sometimes experienced in public transportation. I’ve also learned that usually I don’t have to initiate anything,… Continue reading this entry
The screenshot of a post with images turned off. This particular problem with firefox has bugged me from the very beginning: somehow the websites I make don’t play too nice with the images turned off, because the dimentions that I include are not honored by FF. If you go to Mark Jaquith‘s site and and… Continue reading this entry
My moleskine, and the ex libris I wrote when I got it. When I first read of the Moleskine from Stephan (from this post), I thought to myself, Such indulgence for a notebook! Granted, ever since I graduated high school (and not having owned a computer of any sort until I graduated college) I have… Continue reading this entry
Freedom board, up close, at UMCP Without giving too much detail about my work, I do data entry from 8:00p through 4:30a with overtime as required to get the work done, which in my case usually amounts to an hour, to an hour and a half each day. Each night is an endless parade of… Continue reading this entry