If you aren’t watching The Colbert Report, you are truly missing out. Even as the Writer’s Strike has raged on, Colbert has still entertained. This is perhaps some of his best work as he chats with the author of The Lucifer Effect. He refutes the premise of the book in a sound and informed argument and closes out with the ultimate punctuator. Enjoy!
Suzanne has been making fun of me for not blogging after posing the question: does anyone read this anymore? In that post, I believe I alluded to writing a bit more. And then promptly I disappeared for several months. What can I say? Guilty as charged.
So what’s new?
I’m still going it on my own work-wise. My tiny one-person LLC is doing fine as in November, I landed a contract with the world’s search engine company of choice. I can’t really say what I’m doing and for whom within that company due to non-disclosure legalities, but I can say that I’m working with a talented group of folks in a skillset that I’ve adopted in the past couple of years.
I can also say that I’m enjoying a telecommuting existence whereby my commute only involves walking up a flight of stairs. I manage my own time and live a VPN-connected existence. The obvious downsides are few daily interpersonal interactions and life in a bandwidth-constrained environment. The upsides are pretty obvious, the work is interesting, bozo-free, and I’m nicely paid for my contributions. I’m hoping the arrangement lasts for a long time.
I’ve also recently released a side-project of mine. I’ve been a fan of SportsRadio 1310, The Ticket, a local sports talk radio show for a long time. It was the first of its kind when it started in 1994 and it provides a combination of sports talk and really just guy talk in general. After all these years, the on-air staff are nearly family. Their site absolutely sucks, so I thought I would create a sort of unofficial fan site to extend their brand elegantly into the web world. Who knows if it will catch on, but you can take a look at my creation at Ticketheads.com. When you go there, just know that the site is meant to appeal to men between the ages of 25 and 54. As such, the content is calibrated to that type of audience.
Otherwise, Suzanne and I are doing well and are looking forward to our next planned trip to Hawaii. This time, we are splitting our time between Maui and our beloved Kauai. There are still many months between now and our trip, so it will be a while before we can tell you how cool Maui is. Let us hope that I blog before then. 