contents

• i put the agog in pedagogy
• road trip
• chief mouser
• if only
• hometown
• and then the tears
• elf off the shelf
• self-fulfilling
• but goddam if i don't want to teach this course now
• i'll nion if union
• if i were reading me i'd puke
• hey hey look at the thing i made
• map madness
• investing for armageddon
• mapping made-up places
• thanks given
• syntax highlighting, nonsense highlighting
• sans levity
• cat lasagna
• go team
• species-being
• phew
• what is being inflated again, exactly?
• words do occasionally fail
• prototyping prototyping
• scenes from (around) a marriage
• Starbuck, not I, ordered that pizza
• one of us is taking over the world
• it's always too soon
• it's real and it deserves your respect
• remembrance of monks past
• powerful text editor, stupid application
• who needs training when i have all this experience? oh yeah...
• i'm tired, poor, and huddled. give me a minute to call a few friends
• well he wanted to be the patriarch of SOMETHING
• conscious control over the amount of time wasted on specific activities
• backseat bibliography
• kickabout
• with friends like these...
• depends how big your screen is
• one of these things is not like the other
• gone kicking
• instead of doing something useful, I built a blog
• equation for an exodus
• Professional, comma, consumate
• first step's a doozy
• reasons to read the New Yorker: the ads