The Blork Blog

The last thing I saw last night before I fell asleep was William Shatner on Conan O’Brian’s late night TV show. First thing this morning I’m sitting here at work listening to Shatner’s infamously lame Transformed Man recording from 1968.
It’s going to be a surreal day.

Saturday was my friend Judith’s 30th birthday. She’s living in Italy at the moment, and I planned to send a nice felicitation by email. I didn’t actually send it until Sunday since I figured she wouldn’t see it until she went to work on Monday. In the meantime, I picked up a book from my […]

I’m sitting at my desk a few minutes ago, at about 4:30pm, when a bunch of blue balloons floated by the window. Check the famous "view from my desk" in the blue column to the right to get a sense of my view. One moment I’m struggling through the drudgery of this document conversion process […]

Hello faithful masses. A few changes to the blork blog. The "stuff" page is gone, replaced by the "blork" page (although the file is still called "stuff"). It’s a further extension of my narcissism. It’s filling up with lots of fun stuff, including a dynamic photo selector. Woo hoo!
The "what the…" page is gone because […]

I’m already planning my next vacation, which might be a mistake. The problem is that I think I’ll have to wait until fall 2001 to go anywhere, so if I do too much planning now, it will seem old by the time September rolls around. I prefer to plan my international escapades just a few […]

I hate it when I hear that old complaint about people who eat a big piece of cake along with a Diet Coke. “What’s the point of a Diet Coke if you’re eating all that cake” goes the tiresome refrain. Such black-and-white thinking indicates a very blinkered view of the world, methinks. If you’re still […]

I’d like to introduce my new slob index (over there in the blue column on the right). I need to make my bad habits public in an attempt to try to get over them!.