I’m having huge issues with my mouse and keyboard set (Logitech MK700), a rather expensive combo I got after swearing I would never buy another Microsoft mouse or keyboard again (having had two sets die on me within weeks of purchase). Y’see, the mouse chooses when I let go of a selection, and the keyboard […]

What would happen if you stopped updating your blogs, stopped turning on Twitter, Skype and whatever else you’ve got on, if you didn’t upload any pictures or text to any social network? Nothing bad, that’s what. Nothing bad at all. Think about it for a second. Then forget I mentioned it. It’s okay. Bye now.
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When I was a kidyounger I had a policy for pain inflicted on me by other persons. (Not malicious pain, just the kind that happens, y’know.) I’d forgive the first offense (I don’t mean small stuff, I mean real pain!) and allow the person (friend, lover) to hurt me again should they so “choose”. The […]

Oh, not when they tell you about the horrible smell, the terrible consequences on pretty much every part of your body or anything like that, no. When they say that yeah yeah quitting smoking is hard, I know, but the withdrawal symptoms are only very bad fro a few days, a few weeks… a month […]

Quitting tobacco is not only hard, it’s obviously completely stupid. I used to be a smoker. A month later, I’m an ex-smoker. Oh, and also? I can’t concentrate, I’ve had to get a mouth guard to stop the insane constant headaches caused by teeth grinding (itself caused by the stress of quitting), I have all […]

So I had begun a small but precious collection of Richie-isms, and loved to compare specimens with Sol, who appreciated them as much as I did. That day, I recall, I had shared with him, “Don’t kill the goose that laid the deviled egg,” and “You can’t sell a fuckin’ book by looking undercover.” John […]

I can be pretty rigid. Inflexible. Things get organized in my head and when people try to fuck with that I feel like they’re fucking with me. (Ridiculous, I know, and after a few deep breaths I see it too.) It’s not that I refuse to change — oh boy do I not — it’s […]

Y’know, it’s funny. I had a personal site from very early on, I blogged before the word existed. I was online when all you could do was browse catalogs from public/university libraries (and even then only if you knew how), download Shakespeare’s plays in .txt and images that filled your screen would download in mere […]

This isn’t even to toot my own horn. Yes, I offer professional services for translation and proofreading, but this is a general note, if you’d please take heed. Every day I see texts (online, on labels, in print, etc.) that should not have been offered to the public due to their low quality (opening the […]

I do think it’s a fact that young(er) people see privacy differently than what used to be the norm. Never mind that they send nude pictures of each other through their cellphones and all that, the point is they don’t see privacy as something to be preciously guarded. Neither do I, I guess, compared to […]