I am…PhoneBoy

Today is my last day of work for three and a half weeks. Three and a half weeks. Seems like an eternity. But it’s either that or lose my vacation time.Despite having worked for Check Point for the last 7 months, I still have my vacation allocation from Nokia and still fall under Nokia’s policy…

Now that I did the slightly inappropriate Sesame Street clip, here are a few of my favorite non-censored ones to commemorate 40 years of Sesame Street.Ernie singing about the letter D with Cookie Monster:Or Sherlock Hemlock singing about the letter X:And one of my favorite “Kermit The Frog with another fast-breaking news story”: And one…

Apparently, this whole debate has gone back a few generations (if not longer).

Ranks right up there with Braille on the drive-up ATM.

I am beginning the rather manual process of going through my old blog on Vox and copying things over. One post at a time. You’ll see a few things copied over here for posterity, but as I go through it all, I realize not all of the material there needs saving.Some of the stuff was…

I’ve previously had a personal blog on Vox (it’s still there, for now), but I’ve decided to restart the blog over here on phoneboy.info, which I bought a while ago but wasn’t using for anything. I’m no longer fond of the “roach motel” that some of these “Free” blogging services are (i.e. you can get…

I recently went through the exercise of taking all my mix tapes that I made in college (or shortly thereafter) and created playlists in iTunes based on them. I, in theory, get all of the joy of a playlist I personally created without having to carry around those old cassettes with better sound quality to…

A lot of memories of my youth involve sitting around and listening to music. Of the various forms of entertainment I had available at the time and well into the mid-1990s, it was the only thing that was truly available “on demand.”One of my first memories is me getting up to my mom’s turntable and…

Tuesday was officially my last day at Nokia. However, it was also the day that I started fully transitioning to Check Point Software. I signed all the various forms and non-disclosure agreements, read through the employee manual. One of the forms–the I-9–requires an “authorized representative” of the company to look at my passport and sign.…

When I was about my son’s age, I was in Cub Scouts. One of the things you inevitably do in Cub Scouts is build a Pinewood Derby car. Or, rather, your father mostly builds it. My son is not in Cub Scouts, but we are doing something similar through the YMCA. We are doing a…