You know you’re in North Dakota when…

Posted September 16, 2006 at 12:51 PM | Tagged as: Just Sayin, North Dakota | Comments Off

You know you’re in North Dakota when the weather forecast for mid-September is calling for snow.

BTW, for the same day in Philly, the forecast is Sunny, high of 85 degrees. *sigh*

Sex DOES happen!

Posted July 10, 2006 at 11:27 PM | Tagged as: Current Events, Just Sayin, Pro-Choice, Women! | Comments Off

Rebekah E. Gee, M.D. and M.P.H., has written a piece for the New England Journal of Medicine, Plan B, Reproductive Rights, and Physician Activism. It’s well worth a read! Here’s my favorite bit:

Our government has been burying its head in the sand, pretending that sex does not happen. This agenda sets women back decades, threatening their right to achieve equally in society by robbing them of options for planning their childbearing.

Brand Loyalty and Old TV Shows

Posted July 10, 2006 at 8:31 AM | Tagged as: Just Sayin, Television, Things I Love | Comments Off

Yesterday, Kevin told me that I was the most brand-loyal person he’d ever met. Which was funny to me, because I’d been thinking about the very same thing recently.

Indeed, I am an incredible brand-loyal person. I blame (in a good way) my family for this. A few of my family members worked for Westinghouse, back in its heyday, and ever since I was a small child I was always attracted to Rand’s ‘W’ logo. Next was Coca-Cola, the only soda we drank, accompanied by Volkswagen — there was only one in the family, but there’s a story behind my love for the car and brand (part of which could be the shared ‘W’ with Westinghouse). Other brands I’m particularly loyal to include Panasonic, Microsoft, Dell (despite the exploding laptop incident), and Wonka Candy.

One brand that I’ve never been particularly loyal to is AOL. For those of you that don’t know me, and may not know that I worked at AOL for six years, you may not find anything strange about this. But for those that do know me and do know that I worked at AOL, you probably also won’t find this strange. My modus operandi was to subvert the norm and push the products I worked on to be the industry’s best, rather than the AOL average of lame and boring.

Well, I don’t know if anything I did at AOL ever worked (see today’s NY Times article, but I can say that they’re now doing something that I can get behind… they’re putting old TV shows online at In2TV! You can catch one of my all-time faves, Max Headroom online. (Max was sort of a brand, too, wasn’t he?) Other oldies-but-goodies include Wonder Woman and Welcome Back, Kotter. Now go watch some TV!

It’s Redesign Season

Posted February 27, 2006 at 10:39 AM | Tagged as: Just Sayin, Web Stuff | 2 Comments

I always try to redesign my site before SxSW — don’t know why, just call it my own, personal SxSW tradition. With the various projects I’ve had on my plate, time’s been tight, so I decided to bust out this funky design (à la Duran Duran’s Big Thing) that I’d played around with a while back. If you hate it, cheer up! My RSS feed will now supply you with the full text of my posts, so you can read that instead.

Anyway, here I am trying to uphold my own little tradition. But it seems that I’m not alone! I popped by a few sites this morning and saw that these folks redesigned too:

• Rodney Anonymous Thoughtless for the Day - was clearly redesigned last month, but I missed it. Glad to see he’s posting more frequently again.
• Brandon @ The Dark Cyde - moved from Drupal to WordPress. Yay!
• Phoebe @ SimplifierLab - I loved her old site (except for the Flash bit) but I’m really digging this one. Can’t wait to see what she comes up with for a project we’re going to be collaborating on!

And look! I just posted to my blog! Gee whiz, it’s like winning the lottery!

I just love that post-concert feeling

Posted November 27, 2005 at 3:39 AM | Tagged as: Just Sayin, Music | Just 1 Comment

You know… you can’t hear anything, so you shout when you talk… your throat’s so sore from screaming that not even a box of luden’s and some milk can help… the sense that if you can stay at the venue just a few minutes longer, the moment will last just a little longer…

Man, I hate living in the middle of nowhere, and not going to shows often enough to feel like this.

Thanks to Jason Falkner and his band for making me feel this way again! Photos will be up in the gallery on this site (or on Flickr — or both!) soon.