Update on Dad's Condition
My father was admitted into the hospital on Sunday, June 17th with a life-threatening infection.
Color Me Surprised
It was a happy (and successful) conspiracy; I had no clue.
The Colors of Consciousness... A Poem
A Joy of Life is to Behold...
Merry Christmas from The Smith Family
Tyler, Tina & Isaac Smith
Most Popular Post, Ever.
I was delighted to find that I had been beaten up by people I've never met...
Reflection: 10/16/2001
Frantic groups meet, discuss, explain, socialize and disband
Google Ranking
I couldn't be more proud. I'd like to thank the academy. And Google.
Degrees of Separation: Six Apart
Six Apart is a company with savvy people, great ideas, and well-designed applications.
Saturday by Ian McEwan
And so it is that questions are forgotten.
Catastrophe Follows
I may never leave my house again.
Poll: Design Preferences
What do you think?
Silently, silently
Nevermind the bugs.
Themed Design
Are you excited? I am.
Minimal
When, you ask? Soon.
The Word Pile
My yet-to-get-to reading list has surpassed the 1 foot mark...
doodlemonger.com Logo Concept
Armed with this new knowledge, I set about practicing the effect.
Emotional Design
I am emotionally attached to my Believer subscription...
Restless
Another design concept...
Found: Two
But reading was uncomfortable.
Found: One
Sometimes all you can do is burn it.
doodlemonger.com 3.0?
Another redesign sketch...
Dream
Silent chaos everywhere. Muted catastrophe.
Danger: Redesign Imminent
The seeds of discontent are brewing...
Sixth Nicest
Eric Idle is the sixth nicest member of the old Monty Python group...
Housekeeping: doodlemonger.com Design Mods & Additions
The current design is beginning to wear on me...
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iMac G5
If this doesn’t make you drool, I don’t know what will.
Josh Winiberg
Josh is a 17 year old pianist/composer/performer...
Fiction 59: Missed
I discovered I had missed it completely. The realization stung.
Go: Clarity in Defeat
With each loss I would like to consider the gulf narrowing...
Publishing Anyone?
And with any luck it may even smell good.
Navel Gazing
How would you rate my work ethic?
Annals of Oral Hygiene
Again and again I am instructed to take better care of my mouth...
For Whom The Bell Tolls
I thought this an ominous sign.
Existence Reaffirmed
Thoughts cut between pages smelling of ink and blades and textured wood.
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern: Issue 8
Beautiful, hardbound, and smelling of freshly pressed literature.
Admonishing Adverbs
Perhaps it is for the best.
Shameless Stylistic Aesthetics
I've experienced a hunger of late to read, and am indulging.
Cry, the Beloved Country
"For fear will rob him of all if his gives too much."
Windsong
The tones have no source; they are in my mind, audibly glowing.
Migration
I realized that I needn't continue to pay for the privilege to curse daily.
Go: The Lesson Continues
I continue to be entranced by the elegance of this game...
Internetlessness
I am not unreasonable. I work in technology.
Notes: Aged One Year
The fraying, curling edges give it character, and in a way I'm sad that it's filling up.
Nuke 'em. Just nuke 'em.
Why don't we try to destroy tropical cyclones by nuking them?
The Wedding of Tina and Tyler
The wedding was this last weekend and everything went very, very well.
Chabon's Lost Epic
I imagine Chabon in front of his computer, writing the bit about the only copy of Grady Tripp's monstrosity of a novel blowing away in the wind with a huge smile on his face...
#11 Arrives
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue #11 is here!
doodlemonger.com 2.0
The redesign will move to a more sexy, sleek and svelt style of markup that strives to separate content from formatting.
doodlemonger.com woes
It all started with the novel idea that I ought to change the way individual entries are named on doodlemonger.com.
Tastes like... burning
I learned a very valuable fact this week: hot grease burns skin.
Fiction 59: Redux
I'm of course tortured by the insipid thought that my entries never actually even got where they needed to go.
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern: Issue 11
The excitement is tangible; textured even.
Fiction 59
There is a fiction contest in the Chico News & Review with a specification of exactly 59 words.
Ebbs and Flows
There are stories to be told.
Metathought
The reflection reminded me of some kind of liquid -- oil perhaps; something thick and angry.
Before the Calm
There charged the air from mountain's top-
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern: Issue Ten
Four hundred ninety seven pages of serif-fonted, two columned goodness.
A Wedding, In Bits and Bytes
Imagine the trumpets blaring something vaguely recognizable in the background as the banner drops and everyone gasps with delight: The Wedding of Tina & Tyler
Twinge
This, naturally, requires time and effort.
Oblivio
And yet, to hear the voice, and to see the human being, makes him more real, more accessible.
McSweeney's
I am that two-year-old with an impossible grin
Go
I do believe I will be playing much more of this game.
Things That Make Us Smart
"What is wrong is the design of the technology that requires people to behave in machine-centered ways, ways for which people are not well suited" - Don Norman
Wooden
The man I had been talking to wasn't a man at all.
Tina
I know it's odd, but I imagine us as grandparents, and fabulous grandparents at that.
The Lake of Love
Brugge, The Lake of Love, Belgium
Triumph
Two years ago today I stood and took this photograph.
Memories Instead
It is always at these times that an ache to travel back arises too, as if the gathering clouds of time between the memory and now with force compound the need.
The World, Forgotten
Perhaps somewhere in the shuffle between Zambiland and the Dutch East Indies, Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri failed to lodge themselves firmly in my brain.
Wesley? Is that you?
Whilst bouncing about from blog to blog in the wide-wide world of nonsensical prose, I came across WIL WHEATON DOT NET. I don't know why I'm surprised that it exists. I'm not even sure why I'm surprised that he writes...
Block
This is an altogether odd experience indeed; to reflect on one's own inability to develop or maintain coherent thoughts...
Pizza
I was digging through the "Archive" folder on my computer, looking for things I had forgotten about...
Hauling
I remember losing ten minutes and sensing no more than two seconds pass. I assume I slept. I can't be sure.
Shaving Mirror
I am what I understand, and even if that understanding is flawed, I act upon that which I know.
Einaudi
I listen, and smile, and am at peace.
Lapse
These gaps punctuate my life at odd intervals; periods where commas should have been.
Published
The scam operates on the collective vanity of a large population of amateur poets.
Blackbeard
I remember nothing of the entire affair aside from that single image.
Netscape 4.x
Upgrade, for goodness sake.
Referrer
I have been linked to.
Dream
There was a great sense of panic and discomfort and loss.
Weatherman
I have established a routine.
Ambiguous Droplets
The droplets look dangerously ambiguous and far too close to the zipper to be considered "accidental."
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Chabon's writing style inspires me to no end, and pushes me to pursue reading and writing more.
Notes
If nothing else, it looks neat.
About Tyler
I was once asked to write something about myself to provide material for an awards banquet.
-1 Year Anniversary
In a year I will marry the love of my life and my best friend, and I can't wait...
On Napping
Naps are too often missed.
Lagging Memory
After a few days the organization seems foreign to me.
Through my eyes
Ever wondered what it's like to have 20/200 vision? Wonder no more.
Jesus Is The Answer
Apparently, Jesus and having a well trained dog are the answers to life's problems. And it's done in your very own home. While-you-wait, I expect.
Pound for pound
More often than not I feel like I've stolen something.
Technological Geriatrics
For some reason the odds of a malfunctioning piece of technology righting itself unassisted are significantly less reassuring than those that it will randomly fail to function properly - I'm convinced.
Redesign
Oh, and welcome to the rather sparely (i.e. non) marketed launch of doodlemonger.com. I'm taking my cues from George Lucas.
sleeping-while-awake
I could feel my conciousness slip and everything lose solidity - my chair and legs bowing beneath me and my surroundings put on "mute."
Information and Communication
No one ever actually met or saw the computer operators; it was thought that they came out at night to collect the punch cards and feast on virgin blood...
Empezamos
Always hovering in the back of my mind is The Reader.
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Twinge
This, naturally, requires time and effort.
Poll: Design Preferences
What do you think?
Shaving Mirror
I am what I understand, and even if that understanding is flawed, I act upon that which I know.