I get a lot of email, but my favorites (aside from Urgent Assistance Required! spam) are wayward messages sent by people who don’t know their friends’ real email addresses. This is especially a problem at cn***@***oo.com — my spam magnet account that I only use to sign up for newsletters/message boards/autoresponders/etc. and rarely check except…

I’m starting to realize that the shower is where I get all my good ideas. I remember long-forgotten to-do-list items in the shower. Answers to nagging problems finally come to me in the shower. Maybe there’s something to be said for the mental effect of water. Hydrotherapy, Chinese Water Torture… maybe it’s all legit.

We’re having a deck built off of the second story of our house, and any big project like this always sends me into a panic. Yesterday was the really big day, in which they were knocking a hole in the wall where the sliding glass door would go. Sure enough, I returned home near dusk…

Since when did cucumbers come back into vogue as a sandwich condiment? Is this how Jared lost all that weight? Eating cucumber sammies? If you want to open up your own Subway franchise, Alaska is the place to do it. Alaska needs sandwiches!

I love Mike Lyons’ Amazon.com review of Half Mast: “This book does for education what Psycho did for showers.”

Hey San Francisco – my awesome TV stand is up for bid on eBay. The fun begins at $1.99 — this was $300 new! (Note no shipping option!) Bask in the glory of the monster black TV stand!

So I went back to the periodontist and am told I need a “deep cleaning” due to crud building up under the gumline, and that maybe that would address the pain behind tooth #23 (see 8/13/02). But regardless, I need the deep cleaning anyway. The deep cleaning consists of poking around and scraping deep under…

There’s a billboard in SF that I just don’t understand. I don’t know what company it’s advertising but it’s related to a probably long-passed trade show nearby. The billboard has the proverbial hare and tortoise sitting at a starting line. The tortoise’s lane is straight and short. The hare’s goes out on a long bend…

Today’s Pontiac Grand Ams apparently have a new feature in their radios: As you speed up, the radio gets louder to compensate for increased road and wind noise. As you slow down, the volume goes back down. Is this common? My rental car kind of freaked me out when it did this unexpectedly, though I…

Airline bullet points: – I understand when an airplane needs to be taken out of service for mechanical difficulty, but how about this: If I hear you talking about the problem when I get on the plane, don’t wait until everyone is seated and the door is closed to take everyone off the aircraft and…

Catching up on stuff I missed on my Jersey trip (man, loved that Jersey!) What’s up with this new Real World season? I mean, the fact that it’s just begging to get the cast members knockin’ the boots right from the first episode is fine… but it would really be a lot more fun if…

Joyce Slaton wrote a nice little piece taking personal blame for the dot-com bust (okay, not quite, but it’s a fun read anyway). I have a small mention. Joyce said I was very quotable. Nice to see that I’m ahead of Wired founder John Battelle!

After a grueling day getting from SF to the middle of New Jersey, the first good thing of this trip occured: I got upgraded to a huge suite because there were no other non-smoking rooms available by the time I got here at 12:30am. And of course the TV doesn’t work except for the “movie…

Per Slashdot, Red Hat’s upcoming desktop app has an interesting code name.

On Elevator Etiquette. I am a firm believer in not holding the elevator door for stragglers. I am especially annoyed by people who hold the door when the car is full of people waiting to go. Think about it: You’re act of kindness for one person is actually slowing down a dozen other people waiting…

You Are Where You Live is a pretty interesting, though not terribly detailed, look at what your ZIP code says about you to telemarketers, et al. My PRIZM code seems to be “Young Literati,” though all my neighbors are definitely “American Dreams.” Link courtesy Forbes FYI.

I don’t know how I got by without the Google Toolbar (IE only). It’s awesome on its own, but it’s the Experimental Features that make it really invaluable.

Friday the 13th, people… So I’m driving home from work. I’m stopped at a three-way stop, one of these funky triangular intersections where there’s no real way to go straight. Visibility is poor, so there are regular squabbles over who has the right of way. So anyway, in typical fashion, the car in front of…

I hate it when I think of something really cool to post, then forget, then remember that I had something cool to post… only to forget what it was. Instead I’ll relate another dream from last night. This time I realized I had left something in my highschool locker, you know, 12 years ago. So…

I’m pretty sure I’m allergic to multi-vitamins. Or something in multi-vitamins. For months I’ve been having this strange choking sensation after I eat dinner. My doctor thought it was cat hair allergies, but I have been skeptical. I’ve experimented with everything… only after cutting out my multi-vitamin has the choking sensation stopped. Damn you, Fred…