Just about everybody has stayed up all night at least once. But about twelve years ago, I pulled exactly 74 waking hours in a row: from 6:30 Tuesday morning to 8:30 Friday morning. Someone who was leaving the company had grossly understated the amount of work remaining on a large software manual. She had been … Read more
Skating’s supposed to be like riding a bike. Everyone always told me so. But every time I went skating, I always had to find a quiet corner and take 15 or 20 minutes to learn the mechanics of it all over again. For me, roller skating was always only in RAM; I could never save … Read more
The ’70s were just…wow. I don’t know. They were the ’70s. Perhaps because of the gravity of what the country was experiencing as a whole (Vietnam, Watergate, the energy crisis, etc.), American pop culture was yanked that much more toward the goofy. You can pick on my beloved ’80s all you want, but in the … Read more