• I Want a Nikon D90

    Marisa’s pic­tures are so gor­geous. She shoots a Nikon D90. Her pic­tures are to me the quin­tes­sence of great pho­to­blog­ging — mak­ing the ordi­nary extra­or­di­nary! I peeped her cam­era on Flickr and now I want to get one for myself. I’ve spent so much mon­ey over the years on mediocre point and shoot cam­eras, as…

  • The Commodore 64

    My post this morn­ing about the Com­modore Vic 20 got me think­ing about how much fun I had with my sec­ond com­put­er, the Com­modore 64, which I’ve rhap­sodized before. One of the games I remem­ber fond­ly is B.C.‘s Quest for Tires. As I may have men­tioned, all of my games were pirat­ed by one of…

  • In Praise of Step Brothers

    It goes with­out say­ing that this is the sec­ond com­ing of Office Space. It’s the kind of movie that does­n’t scream at you to see it in the the­ater, but once you give it a shot on the ol’ boob tube, you can’t help but be sucked in by its silli­ness. I have a great…

  • The Commodore Vic 20

    Think your Win­dows-based PC takes a long time? This took for­ev­er. It boot­ed from a cas­sette! It was an amaz­ing expe­ri­ence to actu­al­ly inter­act with some­thing on the tele­vi­sion screen. I can’t believe how lucky my sis­ter and I were to have one. That $300 com­put­er in 1980 would cost $793 today! Hard to believe that…

  • I Saw Get Low

    Well, I sort of saw Get Low. There were a few spots where I closed my eyes just for a minute. Yeah, even the Ritzes get bad movies in August. It just did­n’t hang togeth­er very well. And I was sleepy after that deli­cious din­ner at Zahav. I will say that Robert Duvall was great and…