Life before Angry Birds
I remember a time I could sit down to a dinnertime pork chop and not think, “Serves you right. You never should’ve thought that helmet would save you.” If I could remember it more...
Category: Technology
Greenville News seeks bugle player with “Taps” experience
Classified ad to appear soon in Greenville News: Local newspaper seeks Upstate bugle player, preferably single and good looking, with experience in playing “Taps.” Musician must be able to work pro bono or be...
The big disconnect
I bought my first laptop sometime in 2004. I have been constantly-connected ever since. In June 2005, my wife and I went on a trip for our fifth wedding anniversary. We went to Vegas,...
Dude, I’m getting a Mac
Well, after all the teeth-gnashing and hand-wringing, Otis Inc. is getting a Mac–a 17″ MacBook Pro, to be specific. As most of you predicted, after diddling with my cousin’s MacBook for a bit, I...
Help me buy a MacBook Pro
The post below was written a day or two ago and at the same time, I inquired with the tech department for a company for which I do some work about Mac compatibility with...
Why I didn’t pre-order the iPad
Unlike a lot of you who might have bounded out of bed this morning to pre-order the iPad, I slept comfortably until 8 am and then began my workday without so much as a...
Responsibility, the internet’s condom
If you have the clap and somebody wants to get in your pants, whose job is it to tell that person that you have the clap? That’s the question I posed this morning as...
Sunday warrior
The Doppler radar looked like a corner man’s towel in the ninth round. Three slashes of red cut across Georgia and western South Carolina, each one more pronounced as they stepped south toward the...
The mayor who Twittered (or didn’t)
Note: The following contains some language you might not normally expect to read on a Sunday afternoon. You’ve been warned. It was dinnertime on Friday night and the city of Greenville, SC was ramping...
There’s an app for that
When the wife went into labor with the boy nearly five years ago, we sat looking at a clock. We held a pen and paper in our hands and recorded each contraction like the...
Twitter, Facebook, and biscuits
My grandparents live on a county road in southwest Missouri. My great uncle lives just behind them, just across a dirt road. My mom’s cousin lives a couple of places down. When we buried...
Much atwitter about nothing
Twitter is the Keanu Reeves of the internet. I imagine a big budget film in 1994. It has big guns, big names, the perfect script, and Oscar written all over it. Spielberg already has...
Councilwoman Diane Smock has not been kidnapped
After botching the call on last night’s kidnapping, I feel like I need to redeem myself with a sure thing. Thus, I offer you this fact: Greenville City Council member Diane Smock is not...
Camouflage and podcasts
My son is fascinated with the military. A few weeks back, we pulled into Aunt Sue’s, a country meat and three in Pickens County. A convoy of soldiers pulled in behind us. They ate...