Inquiring minds want to know: Why can’t we have the worst days of the heat waves during the work week, when I’m not sitting at home staring at looming heaps of incomplete housekeeping chores?
On the plus side, I’ve finally figured out how to tag-team an air conditioner and floor fan to bring my bedroom down [...]
Last night, I kicked back with a couple of my friends for a little “Girls’ Night Out” fun — dinner at the consistently delicious Thai-French restaurant Nan, followed by an opening-night viewing of the big-screen estrovaganza that is “Mamma Mia!”
After the movie, we were in a confectionary mood, so we stopped by a grocery store [...]
My friend Joshua, a documentary filmmaker, recently drove cross-country from California to Hoboken, NJ in four days. He took photos along the way, aiming for one good shot in each state. With the exception of Illinois, which he skipped “because it was the middle of the night and it went by so fast,” he succeeded.
I [...]
After the College Humor website featured a YouTube clip posted by a geeky adolescent who had made numerous replicas of video game weaponry out of cardboard and duct tape, the “Halo Kid” has been taking the Internet by storm.
It should come as no surprise that I think the kid is terrific. Those who wholeheartedly throw [...]
I got through my presentation today, but I wasn’t pleased with how it went.
I kicked off with technical difficulties: it took over 15 minutes, along with assistance from in-house AV technicians, for me to get my laptop to project properly onscreen — not a great way to begin a low-key talk on an already unsexy [...]