Category: Humor
Why You’re Not Smart Enough to Work At Google
While attempting to set up a new Google DoubleClick for Publishers account for a tutorial I’m writing, I ran into some of Google’s advanced authentication systems. Those folks are such geniuses. They call it nO-Auth. You could never work at...
How Seahawk are you Seattle? Sorry, not much.
I don’t really understand the attachment of Seattle’s notoriously fair-weather fans to the Seahawks. I thought it might be useful to review for you all how little in common you have with your beloved Seahawks. Sorry, it’s not much. The average Seahawk...
There will be NO DANCING to Pomplamoose at Neumos!
Apparently, there is no dancing allowed at the upcoming Pomplamoose show in Seattle at Neumos!!! NONE! And you thought those stories about Washington’s tax collectors scouring Yelp to tax night clubs while granting billion dollar tax breaks to Microsoft were...
Rolling with Beyonce and Jay-Z
Apparently, SeattleMet included me in their July Perfect Party for having written the popular article on Amazon’s impact on Seattle dating. I’m sure Beyonce and Jay-Z were just as psyched as I was. Postscript: A really wonderful outcome from this was...
The Plethora of Lightswitches in India
One of the unexpected things about Indian hotels was that many of them were loaded with lightswitches. In many rooms, only a few had any function – most were just a confusing, useless presence. The funniest example of this was...