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January 2014

January 28, 2014
There's a new thingy in my life. Rather than some new dreamy-eyed dalliance with Android, this...
January 26, 2014
It’s been a busy week for me on the Internet. Let’s quickly review:I have new...
January 19, 2014
I am sour.Expanding on yesterday’s post on the pressure we feel to have careers that realize the...
January 17, 2014
Do what you love! Sacrifice all! Wait, no.First, Emily Hauser:The whole notion of following one’s...
January 16, 2014
Dave Pell, the day the original iPad was released in 2010:I looked over at my...
January 13, 2014
So the first thing that’s notable about the new iPad “Verse” ad is not just...
January 05, 2014
Is it cool if I try and work something out with you here? Okay, cool....
January 01, 2014
Oh, hey. Over the holiday, Hemant Mehta finally went on his honeymoon, and once again...

December 2013

December 24, 2013
So my wife's dad (who is a really good guy all-around -- just today he...
December 24, 2013
1. 2 2. 1 3. 3 4. 10 5. 6 6 5 & 8 (tie)...
December 21, 2013
In a previous post, I responded to the recent discussion going on in Internet-land about...
December 20, 2013
I have a longish piece up at Friendly Atheist today on the future prospects for...
December 17, 2013
Maybe, like me, you're not all that great with big family get-togethers during the holidays....
December 15, 2013
And the pendulum of gadget satisfaction has swung the other way. Previously, I dismissed the...
December 14, 2013
Because it’s not really a thing. Here’s Ferris Jabr at Scientific American:No one has ever managed...
December 12, 2013
I was kind of on the same page with Tom Scocca and his anti-smarm essay at Gawker for the...
December 09, 2013
No doubt you've seen some manifestation of a species of essay wherein the author goes...
December 08, 2013
I remain fascinated by the emergence of Google's Chromebooks, not because I'm in the market...
December 06, 2013
I ought to be typing this on a physical keyboard right now, but I’m not....
December 04, 2013
On an episode in May of this year of the podcast The Incomparable, which is...
December 03, 2013
A piece in The Economist argues that despite popular fatigue with our country’s countless foreign entanglements, Americans ought...

November 2013

November 30, 2013
I will not be getting an iPhone 5S, and unlike the time I thought there...
November 25, 2013
Here's two cover tunes I cooked up in my almost nonexistent spare time: my own...
November 23, 2013
Twenty days with the iPad Air, and a quick follow-up. I'm still in love, but...
November 21, 2013
Alan Jacobs, one of my favorite writers, declares that writing on the iPad, as opposed...
November 20, 2013
If you're deeply into Star Trek, as I am, you've wondered what the hell people...
November 18, 2013
Joe Wiesenthal creates out of thin air the first-worldiest of all first-world problems. (And I...
November 17, 2013
So there's that new Noam Scheiber piece in The New Republic that everyone's talking about,...
November 16, 2013
Psychotherapist Joseph Burgo writes in The Atlantic about research linking bullying to narcissism. (For some...
November 13, 2013
I recently wrote about how I had been compelled to introduce the concept of death...
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