The Relentless March of Time
I guess I hate the feeling that I am unable to stop the relentless march of time. I work harder than the amount of work I produce warrants. I am easily distracted, which is a weird form of …
Atmospheric Memory
It’s been a pretty tough week at work. My boss has left my department for another, and she’s basically been replaced by two people—both of whom don’t really know anything about video …
Sundays Are For Taking It Easy
“Sundays are for taking it easy.” What a slogan. I just heard it on the radio. Wendy and I are home again. 2002 has turned out to be a tumultuous year, to be sure. The house is a mess, …
Lesson: Be a Better Documentarian of Your Life
Wendy and I are out in Medfield, Massachusetts, because her grandfather died and we came out for the funeral, which will be tomorrow in Plymouth. Last night Bill and Jane (Wendy’s parents) …
Wrestling With the Sofa Salesman
Some days you just gotta love the Internet. Today I ordered a digital camera (with some cool extras), fired off an e-mail to my insurance agent (didn’t have to wait on hold), added some DVDs to …
The Difference Between What We Do and What We Would Choose to Do
I’m spending too much extra energy on work stuff. I don’t know why. I’ve put in a lot of hours in the last couple of weeks and I devote too much time to thinking about things outside …
The Effects of a Very Wonderful Weekend
Wow, I’m still feeling the effects of a very wonderful weekend. I didn’t get too much work done around the house—there’s still a pile of uncut tree branches in my front yard from …
Why My Novel is Unfinished
I thought one of the main things I would have done with my life is write a novel. That has not yet happened. I started one about eight years ago, powered through the first hundred pages or so in about …
The Difficulty of Killing 150 Clones
I got up this morning and played some video games. State of Emergency is an interesting game about urban riots following a corporate take-over of the government. There are plenty of missions in the …
The Sounds of Foreign Tongues
Short film idea: several people (maybe kids?) of different languages doing impressions of what foreign languages sound like to their ears. Wendy was driving me to the ferry this morning and we were …