barrington99@gmail.com Someone I know from my place of work died recently. He’d had an interesting life: He’d served in the military then done well in academia. He married four times and had a number of children. As the person who processed his expense reports, I can say that in very recent years he spent months at … Read more
… though I wish it was. According to eHow, if you think your trackpad isn’t working because you got your laptop wet, you are supposed to dry it out by burying it in rice for a 24-48 hours. Or desiccant, if you have some. Which apparently we do—Paul tells me that he saves those little packets … Read more
On my way out the door this evening, I was cleaning my purse–as usual trying to find the invisible canon ball that I seem to carry–and came across this program from last week’s show. I should keep this, I thought. And then thought, where? Now that pictures are digital, I haven’t had a physical album in years. No … Read more
Someone I know from my place of work died recently. He’d had an interesting life: He’d served in the military then done well in academia. He married four times and had a number of children. As the person who processed his expense reports, I can say that in very recent years he spent months at … Read more
This is the a computer screen that I use at work. It’s kind of small, but maybe you can see that each of the items on all these lists are links to things you can do. Some people might use a lot of these links. I generally use about two. For instance, I … Read more
I sometimes like it. Probably not always. Most of the examples that I can think of off the top of my head have to do with emerging technologies. “Facebook me.” “I’ll Google it.” These are okay–short and also specific, which I respect. Though I’m not a fan of saying “google” for “search” if Google is … Read more
The short Hispanic woman selling blinking plastic light-sticks from a shopping cart offers a collegial fist bump to the guy in the wheel chair selling bunches of roses from his lap, then continues down the block. A black man, so thin he swims in his all black shirt and trousers, break dances next to an … Read more
Los Angeles current temperature: 93. Wednesday’s high: 99. Thursday’s high: 99. Friday’s high: 95. For some reason “Like the Weather” from 10 Thousand Maniacs popped into my head. An old favorite back in the day. I had a tape, but never watched the music video of the song. Would it have occurred to to me … Read more
I’m behind on recording movies. I know I’ve seen a couple that I’ve forgotten about..Maybe it doesn’t matter, because maybe hearing someone recite movies they’ve watched is about as interesting as someone telling you their dreams. But here’s the last three anyway: Last weekend Paul offered me a date night–since game night got cancelled– and … Read more
Lately I’ve been writing quite a lot, along with my co-writer. In the last three weeks we finished a full draft of a screenplay, which is faster than I’ve ever written a first draft–but it wasn’t pretty, and honestly neither is the draft. Which is not to disparage it–you don’t disparage a big lump of … Read more