fleshyorgans

All of a sudden my daughter just started using lots of signs and real words and everything. It’s bizarre. Like shit just got real. There’s a little human in there, making her will known. Man, I’ve gotta stop saying things like “shit just got real”; both because she might repeat it, and because people who [...]

My wife linked me to this article about Seattle. It’s all true. I like the idea that it’s sunset for 12 hours a day. Absolutely true, that. Basically it’s golden hour all day — which is probably why it looks gorgeous to me all the time. We do have some cloud-cover where we are right [...]

I really want to like Android, but the phone manufacturers make it so hard. I have a Samsung Captivate, which is a Galaxy S phone. Really solid feeling, good specs. But Samsung filled it with bloated software and dicked with the UI. Ugh. This post is kind of a first-world-problem post, yo.

My posts have been way heavy the past couple months. I think part of that is because when I sit down to write I have it in my mind that I am Sitting Down To Write. That’s fun for awhile, but also a little tiring to read. I need to shake it up a bit, [...]

Here’s to a fun year. If that guy who misinterpreted ethnographer’s misinterpretation of the Mayans is right, this is the penultimate day of the penultimate year. Seems auspicious.

but man this place is weird. I’m learning I have preconceptions, expectations, and prejudices about certain things that just don’t work out here. I’m having to come up with an entirely new model for people.

Getting older is weird. I’m unsure if things get more complicated or I just become more aware/exposed to complications. It’s hard to know for sure, because anyone you ask isn’t going to remember it right anyway, since the very things that might cause you to notice things more now are affecting the people you would [...]