One fall day many years ago, I had gone out to lunch with my manager. On the drive back, we had this exchange: Manager: Don’t you love watching the leaves change color.Me: No. When the leaves change, I just see death.Manager: Why do you have to be so morbid?Me: Hey, I’m not the one who […]
I was sad to hear about Richard Simmons’ passing last Saturday. Growing up in the 80s, I remember seeing him everywhere on TV for a time. In college I had a roommate named Carmen. One day Carmen came into our dorm room excited and said that Richard Simmons was doing a book signing at the […]
Twenty years ago today I rescued an abandoned newborn kitten. At the time I was living with a girlfriend in an apartment complex in the Philly suburbs, and there were quite a few stray cats living around the complex. I was walking home from work one day and some kids pointed out a hollow tree […]
I created my first personal website in college back in 1996 or so. For most of its existence it was static HTML, except for the some of the photo gallery, which was using an ancient PHP-based gallery that stopped being maintained ages ago and was probably a security risk. I hadn’t updated the site much […]