A lifestyle blog of Silicon Valley nerd and part-time Travel Journalist
I grew up playing board games of all kinds, but my taste in games has changed over the years. When I was 4 or 5 I liked Chutes and Ladders and Candyland. Later on, my tastes turned to Risk, Clue, and Mousetrap. When I was in high school I played strategy games. As an adult, …
I am just wrapping up our family’s 2017 reading challenge. We agreed on 12 different categories that were intended to encourage us to broaden our choice of reading materials. I should say that when I say I “read†a book, it usually means I listened to a book on Audible. Skip to the end for …
They say that the first step in dealing with an addiction is admitting that you have a problem. I have a problem. The list of 71 podcasts below are shows that I listen to or watch. I do occasionally skip an episode but generally consume every episode of the following shows. I do actually subscribe …
I just stumbled upon this old poem that I wrote: The Shower I stumble from bed Like a zombie, half-dead Groping my way to the shower I stay there it seems Under life giving streams For the better part of an hour I rinse and I scrub In a shower not a tub But it’s …
Here is a game you can play with only a dictionary and a group of creative people (Aunt Nell can just watch). Fictionary – noun In this game each person takes a turn being the person who finds an obscure word in the dictionary. You know the kind of word I mean. It is the …
a poem that I wrote for MacWold in 2007 Twas the night before MacWorld And all through the hall Not a vendor was stirring No, not at all The attendees lay snuggled asleep in their beds While visions of iPhones danced in their heads The iPhone is here! It’s coming right quick We’d been told …
I love little jewels like this on the internet: During the summer of 1950, on the outskirts of Harrisburg Pennsylvania U.S.A., my sister’s boyfriend “Skip” was sitting on the glider on the front porch of our house. He said to me – “Hey Mike… bring me a sheet of paper.” I answered why? and he …
I have heard a couple of different versions of this joke. This version comes from Feld Thoughts. Donald Rumsfeld is giving the President his daily briefing on Iraq. He concludes by saying: “Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed.” “OH NO!” the President exclaims. “That’s terrible!” His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously …
It sounds like a guilty pleasure, but I have recently fallen for the TV show Veronica Mars on UPN (Tuesdays, 9PM). To hear the description of the show you would think it is a remake of either Nancy Drew or Twin Peaks, neither of which were a favorite of mine. The back story for the …