• Feels Like Home


    Leaving your family to fend for themselves during a major illness sucks. Waiting in line 45 minutes just to get through airport security sucks. A two-hour layover at Washington Dulles sucks. An hour-long flight delay sucks. Waiting 30 minutes for your baggage only to find that it’d arrived on an earlier flight and had been…

  • To the Moon!


    Not only is the honeymoon over, but I think a trial separation is in order. The fan on my MacBook Pro is making grinding and clicking noises that get gradually louder, culminating in an ear-splitting crescendo about 20 minutes after boot-up. The thing has run ungodly hot ever since I got it, but what with…

  • A Funny Thing Happened in my Pants


    I finally started to dig through all the shaky video I took at Disney World, finally taking advantage of all the iMovie and iDVD and iWhateverElse I’ve been paying for with every OS X update. It’s reasonably fun, but it sure takes a hell of a lot of time. And I’ve learned it’s crucial to…

  • The Honeymoon’s Over


    I remember when a new announcement from Apple would have me visibly excited and reaching for my wallet. I even waited around today for Pacific Time to catch up so I could see what all the hoopla was about. And the experience was like when you have to go see that distant cousin who’s a…

  • Hoist up the John B sails


    I finally got back to Georgia from Orlando on Friday night. Even after a month and a half in Orlando and being very ready to leave, it still ended kind of abruptly. It would’ve even been nice to have one more day there as a non-working guest, instead of just one minute being at Epcot…

  • Our President Has Stones


    Say what you will about George W Bush, the guy’s got balls. After invoking the memory of the brave dead, he described our enemies: We have learned that they are evil and kill without mercy, but not without purpose. We have learned that they form a global network of extremists who are driven by a…

  • Wet


    I got this weekend off, so I’m cramming into two days all the stuff I imagined I’d be doing when I first heard I was going to be spending a month at Disney World. Even though I’ve been to Disney World more times than a normal person would admit to, I still see something new…

  • You Still Know What I Did Last Summer


    The Orlando Sentinel put up a video covering the Team Possible game at Epcot, and it came out pretty good. You can watch it here (assuming you’re running Windows; I can’t figure out how to get it to play in Safari). The video has a lot of interviews with the VP of Imagineering R&D talking…