Much ado has been made about Twitter since its release (actually, it only really started to get popular after SXSW), but is it much ado about nothing? To be honest, I don’t get it. I’ve been wanting to blog about this for a while, but I’ve been apprehensive lest I was just missing the obvious…

The universe is conspiring against me. I suppose it really is my fault for going to Starbucks in the first place. When a couple of my co-workers asked if I wanted anything, I said no, but decided to tag along anyway. When we got to Starbucks, the pastries all looked at me from behind the…

This started out as a comment on Kris’ recent blog post about dieting, but grew to be so long that I decided to post it here. In his entry, Kris talks about eating until you’re “not hungry” instead of eating until you “feel full”. That’s a real key to eating less. We’re conditioned to think…

I just read this great op-ed written by 72 year old ACT UP founder Larry Kramer. It’s a frank and honest look at what’s wrong with America.

On Friday night, Mike, Emily, Morah, and I got dressed up and went out to dinner at The Palm Court Grill at The Davenport Hotel. The food was incredible, but that wasn’t the highlight of the evening. After dinner, we went to the opera house and enjoyed the Spokane Symphony’s performance of Carl Orff’s Carmina…

On Monday, we had a staff meeting at the place we don’t about. During the staff meetings, our general manager reads out the nominees for employee of the month, then announces the winner. Although I didn’t win, someone nominated me. I’ve worked here for over three years and this is the second time I’ve been…

I read Cat’s Cradle as a freshman in high school and it’s still one of the coolest books I’ve ever read. I should go back and re-read it, as I’m sure I’ll have a new appreciation for it now that I’m a bit older. One of the sayings of Bokonon (a character in the novel)…

I just wanted to point out that the drip tray I cleaned yesterday already has some water in it.

Kris and I were talking about the new Mac Pros this morning and how no one calls the 8-core an octo-core. Kris: dang – 8-core Mac Pros… They’re expensive, but holy shit Thomas: I know, I want one so bad. Last night I built one with 16GB of RAM and maxed out HDD and dual…

At work, we have this water cooler. Well, it also dispenses hot water, so I guess it’s a water heater and cooler, but I’ve never used the hot water feature, so I’m going to call it a water cooler. This is what it looks like: See it nestled in there between the brewers and the…