Blog posts

1. Outlook Zen Koans

   Outlook error messages must be Zen Kōans . There simply isn’t a rational explanation for a mature product to be so full of useless, annoying alerts. The Evidence Meet the Cannot Family The function…

2. Ambiguously Hyperbolic

   Language shift is unavoidable, and passing fads of cultural catch phrases and idioms are to be enjoyed. Word’s meanings shift, begin to lose force, take on secondary contrary meanings, and eventually…

3. Dark Side of the Town Hall

   For the second Presidential Debate of the 2008 Obama / McCain presidential race, I tried an old psychedelic expirament: synchronization with Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon . It worked better than…

4. A failed analogy to stock market shorting practices

   For Halloween I borrowed some candy from a neighbor. See, I was counting on nobody liking the candy by the end of the night, so by borrowing it instead of wearing a great costume and earning it up…

5. On C.S. Lewis

   Quotation collections are history’s microblogs. C.S. Lewis’s microblog of apologetic missives is very popular amongst Christians, but we’ve substituted every proper noun with Folgers Crystals, lets…