Tom Lee's Internetting

Emily and I have been building a coffin.  This is nominally for Halloween, though I realized partway through the process that “he was buried in a novelty coffin he constructed himself” would…

I agree with all of this.  But then, that’s probably because Tim has been slowly convincing me of it for the past few years.  Anyway, I feel pretty confident that this is the way it’s going to be.

Maaan.

I had this naive hope that actually if you got rid of almost all the MBAs and kept things small and the writers owned the enterprise, there’d be enough of a business left that we, the…

Worth reading.  I think he’s right that to some extent this phenomenon is born of geeks in search of a cause to fight for — certainly this is something I’ve been guilty of.  On the other hand, the…

There’s an interesting discussion of District 9 happening in Spencer’s comment section. Rather than respond inline, I figured I’d blog it and see if the navel-gazing contagion can’t be…

Tim wades in to the debate about robots replacing low-skilled workers. I don’t think I made my case as strongly as I could have, and consequently I can’t resist responding, if only briefly.

1. I…

I’ve been meaning to post this for ages, ever since Emily pointed out to me that I never actually, um, explained what the hell my Artomatic efforts were supposed to do.  Here’s an awkward video…

No:

No:

No!:

Even to you, Steve, I have to — goddammit — I have to say no:

This war on adverbs has to end.  It’s madness — madness I tell you!  We…