So here’s the deal. Six months ago I put up an “Ask Allyn Anything” post. I’m not exactly repeating that. Rather than ask me questions like how I take my coffee or the like, give me a topic. Give me a topic, and I will rant about it. Or write at length. Give you myContinue reading “On Things to Write About”
Category Archives: Asides
On Fleeting Thoughts
This morning, while in the shower, I had an absolutely brilliant idea for a blog post. So, naturally, I completely lost it moments later. This seems typical. I know there’s something missing in my mind — these ideas, that is — because I can “feel” the space the idea once occupied, only I have noContinue reading “On Fleeting Thoughts”
On Watching Football
I don’t like football. No, really. I don’t like football. Which made selling Madden and NCAA Football at EB Games a bit difficult; I didn’t give a toss for the sport, and couldn’t find any appeal in playing the video games either. But I could go deep on discussing baseball games. 🙂 I’m getting off-topic.Continue reading “On Watching Football”
On Linguistic Obliviousness
Truly, I am a maroon. I’ve seen and heard the phrase “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.” I knew it was military lingo. I figured it was its own in-group speak, much like “w00t” online or corpse humping in Halo. It didn’t occur to me until yesterday what Whiskey Tango Foxtrot stood for. Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. Truly, IContinue reading “On Linguistic Obliviousness”
On January Weather
The ninth of January shouldn’t feel like spring. Yesterday, temperatures in Charm City reached the mid-seventies. Right now, as I write this, it’s about sixty-five. It’s drizzly. It’s windy. It’s sixty-five. On January 9th. Yesterday, the grounds crew were hard at work at the office, mowing the lawn. It was odd to see guys andContinue reading “On January Weather”
On the Start of the New Year
Like an odometer turning over, it’s the first day of 2008. 🙂 May 2008 be a fantastic year to one and all. And I, for one, am glad that 2007 is dead and buried. In 2007 I earned more from writing than I did in 2006. My goal for 2008 is to earn more thanContinue reading “On the Start of the New Year”
On the End of Netscape
Netscape, that most venerable of web browsers, has reached the end of the road. Once, it was the web browser. Eighty percent of web users used Netscape. But then, something called Internet Explorer came out, and in the First Browser War Netscape took a tumble. As of February 1st, 2008, AOL will be pulling theContinue reading “On the End of Netscape”
On iPhone Pondering
Not having used — or even seen, for that matter — Apple’s iPhone, the post that follows may be well be completely uninformed and ignorant. You have been warned. 😉 I know, roughly, what the size of an iPhone is. And roughly the size of the screen, too. How is the iPhone something you’d wantContinue reading “On iPhone Pondering”
On a Monster of a Headache
I saw online a few years ago a headache described not as an event but rather as a symbiotic parasite that lives inside the skull. More often than not it lets the host live in peace, but sometimes it moves around, and pain in the result. Occasionally, a lot of pain is the result. ThisContinue reading “On a Monster of a Headache”
On the Browsing Experience
Say it ain’t so, Joe! Mr. Stephen Fry is a Firefox user. A Firefox user! :sick: Fry writes, “I have many friends who can, so to speak, drive around the web, but who have never thought much about the software vehicle taking them through the traffic.” And he goes on: “IE is pants, pure andContinue reading “On the Browsing Experience”