The street where I work
This is my building, the Spokesman-Review Tower in Spokane, Wa. where I’m working as a reporter for the Spokesman-Review. It’s the Hogwart-ish looking tower (it has a clock and a weather vane on top) with the sweeping, curved, modernist addition. Pretty classy eh?
How am I not myself?
Apparently, Maureen Dowd’s mother, unbeknownst to me also a writer, had a fondness for the Talmud. Dowd writes: “Mom – a woman who always carried a small bottle of Tabasco in her purse – wrote out hundreds of recipes, adding notations of her own, including Mamie Eisenhower’s Million Dollar Fudge (1955), which she deemed “Rich […]
Someone learned how to make pretty icons!
Microsoft just announced the “demarcation” of Windows Vista (nee Longorn). Incidentally, the media release video the kids over in Redmond, Wash. whipped up is unintentionally the funniest thing I’ve ever seen. There are also a lot of shots of the new “improved” interface which features glossy aqua icons circa OS X 10.1. Basically, some scotch […]
Flash is for the FUTURE
I’ve been learning mad crazy flash actionscript skills here at the Spokesman-Review where I’m working as a Web reporter intern. That basically means I’m somewhere between a news reporter and a web designer although the two halves of this position don’t exactly overlap. My new-found actionscript skills don’t guarantee that Hyperbole is going to get […]
Muggles rejoice!
I got my copy of HP and the Half-Blood Prince today. I’m at work so it’s sitting on my desk, burning me with its tempting, green cover. I heard the first paragraph on NPR and it was surprising hear about a prime minister instead of Mr. Potter – possibly my favorite literary celebrity except maybe […]