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Mistakes Were Made

When I was 18 I went to college and went about $50,000 in debt. Why would an 18 year old do that to themselves? I majored in computer science. 8 years later…

When I was 18 I went to college and went about $50,000 in debt. Why would an 18 year old do that to themselves? I majored in computer science. 8 years later when I got a real job they made me take remedial programming classes after I crashed everyone’s email and trashed the network. When […]

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LESS

I’m throwing out all my clothes and books and most of my projects and thoughts. I’m sick of most of the things I own. What do I really need them for anyway.…

I’m throwing out all my clothes and books and most of my projects and thoughts. I’m sick of most of the things I own. What do I really need them for anyway. Are they really that important? Most of my books were swept away in Hurricane Sandy. And all my pants have holes in them. […]

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Today I Lost Two Million Dollars

Last week I had a two million dollar deal fall through. Meaning, two million dollars would go to me if the deal had happened. This seems like a “first world problem” and…

Last week I had a two million dollar deal fall through. Meaning, two million dollars would go to me if the deal had happened. This seems like a “first world problem” and of course it is. But it sucks to not get two million dollars. I was disappointed for about five minutes. Not because two […]

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The Only Good Idea is an Unoriginal Idea

Imagine you and your friends are sitting around a table when suddenly one of your friends looks up and says, “one of you will betray me!”  This has never happened to me.…

Imagine you and your friends are sitting around a table when suddenly one of your friends looks up and says, “one of you will betray me!”  This has never happened to me. But it did supposedly happen according to three separate accounts to a bunch of Jews sitting around a table in the first century […]

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Unschool Yourself!

I want to put on Google Glasses, stare at the sun until I go blind, and have a Google Hangout with all my friends at the same time while the sun burns…

I want to put on Google Glasses, stare at the sun until I go blind, and have a Google Hangout with all my friends at the same time while the sun burns my vision away. Everyone will see what I will be seeing (or not seeing. Because of going blind) because of the Google Glasses. […]

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Dear James in 2050

Dear James in 2050, I kind of hope you are not alive in 2050 but I’m going to write to you anyway. If you read this I hope you have already done…

Dear James in 2050, I kind of hope you are not alive in 2050 but I’m going to write to you anyway. If you read this I hope you have already done what I am going to suggest here. I hope you forgive yourself for not always being there when your kids were growing up. […]

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Nobody Told Him He Couldn't Do It

I haven’t left the house in three days and now I smell. And I have coffee stains on my shirt. And I’m working on my splotchy beard. Claudia and I have been…

I haven’t left the house in three days and now I smell. And I have coffee stains on my shirt. And I’m working on my splotchy beard. Claudia and I have been watching back episodes of “Girls” on TV because she decided for the heck of it to work on a spec script for the […]

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