Category Archive for 'Life'

It has become so much a part of daily life that it has added to our language, changed our daily routines and – arguably – rewired our brains. It’s as if our smartphones are connected to our hands while we stare into the screen, wondering and hoping for the next text, update or email.  Shoot [...]

Car Guy: Design Trends

There’s something about a well-designed car. It’s sheetmetal with sex appeal, sculpture with a practical purpose. Design drives passion as much or more than performance — it’s that all-important first impression that just may end up with love at first sight. And most of the time, we get that first glimpse at an auto show [...]

It’s 2 a.m. and my fantasy baseball team just scored another point. Wow. And they said there was nothing to do on the Internet; that it was the domain of porn freaks and losers. Hmph. Thanks to the wonderful worldwide web, I can fritter away a significant chunk of my life watching little simulated men [...]

Electronica

Talking to a million people is the loneliest thing. They sit you in a chair on an island, connected to the world by a rubber earpiece and a microphone. You sit there, for a long time, for forever, staring into a black hole and pretending that you’re good, you’re fine, that you’re ready to tell [...]

Toyota Recall — Editorial: Aside from the obvious – that Toyota will finally fix its vehicles – the long road that is Toyota’s trail of misery is good for other reasons, as well. First of all, it gives Jon Stewart of the Daily Show plenty of material with which to deflect viewers from the other trail of tears going on in DC, namely, the Democrats’ runaway trip down a dead-end street called health care.