Went to see "Super 8" at my local theater. It was a great flick, full of suspense, laughs, and fun scares; it reminded me of a lot of movies I saw as a kid. E.T. and The Goonies, mostly, because the kids are the ...
Author Archives: Secondhand Karl
Jun
10
I Love My New Phone
The iPhone 4 is so much faster than my 3G it's like, well, having a whole new phone. Press on an app and - BAM! - it's loaded and ready to go! Even Facebook, which crawled to a sluggish start on the 3G, opens right up and actually WORKS.
Jun
08
You Can Be Sure the iPhone 5 is Coming Very Soon
Watching the live coverage of the WWDC on Monday, I ooh'd and ahh'd with many others at the new iCloud, and at the new Mac OS Lion, but mostly I gawked at the new features of IOS 5. Features that would never get to me and my beloved iPhone 3G. Yeah, ...
Jun
04
Torn
Drove to Tampa yesterday to go the main VA hospital in my area. It's a 2-hour drive each way. I spent most of the drive there fighting traffic and listening to "Hey, That's My Hummus!" Great podcast from a couple of friends of mine. And so it seems I do, indeed, have a torn ...
May
31
Procrastination
Ever put something off for, say, forever? I have. Procrastination is my middle name. I put off calling a friend for so long that, the longer I waited, the more difficult it became to get in touch with that person. I felt like I was a major disappointment, and the shame that kept building became ...
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I’m a writer. A lover, not a fighter. An amateur philosopher who enjoys shaving giraffes and dancing around my living room in my boxers.