Archive for June, 2010

Spin Cycle: Technological Schizophrenia

When it comes to technology, I am Sybil. On the one hand, I bought my first PC in 1986 (remember DOS prompts?), got my first job pimping the glories of the Internet in 1995, encouraged my husband to take a job at Yahoo in 1996 (my mother thought we meant “YooHoo,” the chocolate drink), and [...]

The Backroads To Vegas: A Travelogue

All right, so I dropped out of the blogosphere for a few days.  And why?  Well, I’ll tell you.  It’s because I have clearly become my mother, a person who says shit like, “I just can’t figure out how to post to my blog from my iPhone” when the truth is that I’m too freakin’ [...]