Since moving into my new apartment a couple weeks ago, I’ve woken up smiling. Happy. This is a new experience for me, this thing, this feeling of happiness. Now I better understand what people mean when they say that, sometimes,…

It took me a minute yesterday to realize that I was standing in slush. Slush! In Vancouver to boot. This week has been cold. Actually cold. What was early morning dew last week has been frost this week. My roommates…

Yesterday, Lifehacker posted a discussion question: Have you ever returned to live with your parents? It poses a few questions at the end: What about you? Have you ever returned to live with more financially stable parents after college, a…

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…

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…

It's been a very bad injury season for me. First playoff game for softball, on the worst possible field (which is deserving of more than a letter to the Slo-Pitch softball league). A deep divet between first and second that…

Came across this article in The New York Times on airports at the border making room for Canadian fliers. Not surprising, actually. A few of my friends make the trip to Bellingham to fly around the States, especially to Hawaii.…