There are suckers born every minute, and the newly announced Guitar Sidekick is a device divined for a sucker purchase. For only $30.00USD, you too, can have this wildly unnecessary and ridiculous accessory for your guitar:
Continue reading → The Most Ridiculous Guitar Accessory Ever
A while ago, I did a Google search for “ass burger” — and while I can’t remember the why or wherefore, I do remember grabbing this screenshot of the event so we could discuss this later — meaning now. I wonder how “Asperger” feels being included in a Google search return for “ass burger?” Is this search return an example of “searching by sound” and not by rational context? I can’t imagine “ass burger” is a common misspelling for “Asperger.”
Continue reading → Reverse Contextual Aural Discrimination: Did You Mean Ass Burger or Asperger?
One of the most annoying things in an allegedly literate human world is when a person invents a word for a word that already has meaning and context and then tries to press that definition into others in everyday use. I’m not talking about words like “Memeingful” or “RelationShaping” or even the colossal “Panopticonic” — all of which have base value in an original colloquial expression — no, I’m talking about “words” like “Blubeekuss” that are made up to be a synonym for “bra.”
My wife Elizabeth and I were at Whole Foods on the Upper West Side for some good wholesome food shopping. On our way out, a collection of books near the exit caught my eye. There was a sign inviting people to take and leave books. Every so often someone would come by and take the books to a charitable organization whose name I have already forgotten because I was so focused on the fact that there were a lot of books being given away.
Continue reading → Underlining and Highlighting August Strindberg
How easy is it to waste your life? We work. We ponder. We rarely live. We prefer complaining over action. We want tears of understanding stead of a hand up out of a pit.
I am currently beta testing Docs.com — the new online writing and collaboration website using your Facebook login and contacts and Microsoft’s stripped down version of Office.
Continue reading → Failing the Facebook Microsoft Office Docs Beta
News broke this week that shattered our world of understanding about the sun above us. Often a golden totem of warmth and richness, NASA now shows us our sun is really a fiery swirl of burnt azure and glistening turquoise: More blue natural gas flame than crackling orange ember.
The Cushing Academy near Boston removed all the books from their library last year in an intentional purge against intellectualism designed to streamline campus thinking. Cushing replace paper with electronic books and online resources and we cannot but help but wonder what was lost in the pulp dust.
SuperGenius guitarist Slash — of Guns N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver fame — released a new album this week called, genuinely enough, “Slash” and it is the number one selling album on iTunes right now.
Okay, so there’s this little thing called the iPad that’s dropping tomorrow and, as the owner of Boles Books Writing and Publishing, I would like to — as an independent publisher — get in on the iBooks action by selling some titles on the iPad.
Continue reading → Does "Reviewed by Apple" Mean iBook Censorship on the iPad?
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