That’s pronounced stag-ette, by the way. Not stage-tte, or a poor pronunciation of “staged.” In the States, we know them as a Bachelor or Bachelorette party. We might know them more by the corresponding reality TV shows, The Bachelor and…
Month: September 2013
I was back home in Chicago earlier this week for the inaugural company conference. I heard two things: Chicago is amazing! Why did you move?! Moving was ballsy. You can guess the first is from my coworkers, most of whom…
In May I blogged about being in auditory hell. After hearing Maroon 5’s “Love Somebody,” off its appropriately named album Overexposed, it occurred to me that the Internet makes avoiding overexposed…overplayed songs, possible. There are two services I’ve used: Pandora…
As my birthday present to myself this year, I enrolled in a creative writing online course through the continuing studies program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The first assignment was to answer the question: Why Do I Write? I write.…
A year later, and my love of baseball has deepened. In Chicago, unless you're a purest, you root for the team your family has rooted for, which is often dictated by the side of Chicago where you grew up: North…
The eBook is free to download. It’s no secret I’ve been a bit obsessed with this “big data” thing for a little bit. It stemmed from a personal project of mine, collecting life data points, as it were, in an…