I am…PhoneBoy

Music seems to have deep, personal meaning to me. I can usually associate a particular memory with a particular song or album that I am listening to. It might be the first time I listened to a song, might be a particular time in my life, or it might be something entirely different. For example,…

What do you collect? Mobile phones. It’s an occupational hazard. 🙂 Over the years, the technology and the needs change. The result is I end up getting new phones. Sometimes I’ll go several months without getting a new phone, then all of a sudden, I’ll get a whole bunch at once. This past year was…

What’s your motto? I think two quotes fit the bill: “Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.” — Christian Fredrich Hebbel “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” — George…

Because, apparently, my parents didn’t like the sound of the name with the long ‘e’. I still don’t know why they bothered to keep the useless letter, though.sigh

I have fairly narrow interests. I will be the first to admit that. When left to my own devices, I don’t tend to do much outside of those very narrow interests. Call it inertia or “internal focus” as I’ve sometimes referred to it. That works great if you live alone, but not so great when…

My parents are the only Dangling Threads in my life. I have a few others as well. Whether or not I choose to tie up those threads depends on a number of factors. Around 7 years ago, my (half) sister decided to try and tie up her loose ends with me. We had grown up…

Here are a few pictures I snapped on my phone during my travels this weekend.

Over the past several weeks, I have been debating what, if anything, to do about the fact my father is aware of my presence online and has made at least one attempt to contact me recently. I discussed the issue with my wife, and while she was not exactly excited about the prospect of me…

A problem that I continually face is knowing where my “work” ends and my “home” begins. It is an occupational hazard that comes with working at home for the past 8 years or more. Oh sure there is some physical separation between my office, where most work gets done, and the rest of the house.…

Thanks to Digg, I found out about the folks at Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. This group is a bunch of current and former law enforcement officials who want to see all drugs legalized. Their main argument is that the current “drug war” is similar to that of prohibition of the sale of alcohol in the…