3 hours agoMy Weirdest Work ExperiencesIf you count a college summer job (for which I worked on, no joke, a non-porn site called Pork Central), I’ve been working professionally on the web and web-adjacent stuff for 25 years now. 💀 As you might imagine, I’ve seen some things in my tour of duty, so I…Careers2 min readCareers2 min read
Published in Interfaith Now·Jan 14Member-onlyMy Christian RebootAside from holiday visits to my grandmother’s church as a kid, I didn’t grow up in a religious household, but my wife did, and after getting married we did some dabbling here and there before eventually going pretty all-in during the late ’00s with a local branch in the ICOC…Christianity4 min readChristianity4 min read
Dec 26, 2022Best of 2022As usual, I haven’t been able to see/listen to everything I’d like, but here are my top picks this year across movies, TV (a longer list as it’s the dominant force of the era) and podcasts… Movies: The Whale Tár Armageddon Time The Fabelmans Nope TV: Severance Better Call Saul Ozark The White Lotus Andor Interview With The Vampire The Bear The Dropout House of The Dragon The Rehearsal Podcasts: Hard ForkMovies1 min readMovies1 min read
Dec 4, 2022Member-onlyMastodon 101 (Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Tusk)Now that Elon has turned Twitter into fascist Disneyland, you’ve likely been reading more and more about Mastodon as an alternative. …Recommendations3 min readRecommendations3 min read
Nov 23, 2022I Get AroundEvery so often I post about my current social media/online presence setup. It’s been a while, and uh…💀 SOME THINGS HAVE HAPPENED 💀…so here’s where I sit as of Thanksgiving 2022, should you (for some inexplicable reason) want to 👀: Primary Focus My Newsletter: I still really enjoy putting this…Technology2 min readTechnology2 min read
Nov 6, 2022Member-onlyState of SocialSomething’s in the air, gang. Giant social media services have been getting more and more problematic for a long time now, but between Elon’s Twitter now circling the drain and Meta continuing to light piles of money on fire with one hand while desperately scrambling to copy ByteDance’s TikTok with…Technology4 min readTechnology4 min read
Published in Interfaith Now·Sep 24, 2022Member-onlyObsessive Compulsive DiscipleA while back, a story made the rounds about a priest that had been accidentally swapping a single word while performing baptisms for more than 20 years, thus rendering them all invalid in the eyes of the church. While this obviously provided for some solid Twitter gold… …Life5 min readLife5 min read
Aug 13, 2022Member-onlyMotherfucker😲 Clutching your pearls? Perfect! What a week! Setting aside the tragic deaths, attacks and unfolding espionage investigation, this clip of Texas politician Beto O’Rourke made the rounds: After posting it as an Instagram story (I know, gross, but sometimes you’ve got to slum it to reach certain people)…Politics2 min readPolitics2 min read
Jul 19, 2022Member-onlyYes, And…I recently came across this text meme making the rounds on IG stories: “ As the world fights to figure everything out, I’ll be holding doors for strangers, letting people cut in front of me in traffic, saying good morning, keeping babies entertained in grocery lines, stopping to talk to…Life2 min readLife2 min read
Jul 10, 2022FOX Reality of My YouthBack in another life, I worked on the websites for various primetime FOX offerings. While I got to work on some still-beloved classics like , and Greg The Bunny, I also spent a good deal of time on some absolutely mind-melting reality shows and specials. Since I think we could…Careers2 min readCareers2 min read
