Have you ever analyzed the type of pictures that you tend to take? I think most people have a picture-taking style or interest. Some people’s pictures will consist primarily of their kids, pets or themselves. Some like landscapes, signs or food. Do you know what I discovered when I was skimming through all my iPhone [...]
Many a spooky story is told about people using the reply all functionality on an email when they meant to send a snarky comment to just one person. Naturally, the offenders are then tormented and humiliated and sometimes even tarred and feathered for their technological mishap. Stories of these blunders have everyone so scared that [...]
Over the course of a blogging career, there certain things that we will likely all encounter. Spam, for instance, is almost sure to find its way into your inbox. Similarly, it is almost inevitable that you will eventually get a comment that accuses you of being less than human. This comment will both hurt you [...]
When I was young and childless, I used to see young moms driving boxy minivans and laugh and vow I’d never, ever drive one (or a station wagon) in my life. Then we had our first kid. Our first car? Well, we got rid of the two-door and ended up with… a station wagon. I [...]
I have a Master’s Degree in Psychology, which gives me the authority to analyze every person I meet and make sweeping generalizations about their issues. As you might imagine, this makes me very popular at parties. Sometimes, when I’m not wishing that I had majored in Art History instead (though such a degree would most certainly have led to a [...]
Everyone’s read a friend’s status update and thought, “God, their life is so much better than mine.” No, it’s not – they’re just better at making you feel like it is. So pull your head out of that oven and let me teach you to craft an update that’ll have Rachel from Tennis Camp weeping [...]
The house phone is ringing and it will probably go on ringing until I answer it. No-one in the house ever seems to answer the phone; they all appear not to hear it. When I was a teenager there was one phone in the house and it was situated in the hall where everyone could hear your conversation. Permission [...]
Picture it: Blue skies. A Great Lake full of water. Green trees. Hiking trails and biking trails and geological wonders as far as the eye can see. This is The Great Outdoors. And there in the middle of it all is one oblivious asshole with their nose buried in a cell phone. They’re walking figure eights [...]
I’m a big productivity whore. I try out a whole bunch of different tools, all the time, and I tend to switch between them with frequency. Now, you might think that’s not very productive and, frankly, it’s not. So when I found Producteev, with it’s slick interface and pretty buttons and multitude of ways to [...]
My apartment is not wired for cable. I know what you’re thinking: How is it that you have access to a computer in 1862, Una, and are Abraham Lincoln’s acne scars really that visible in real life? But no, friends. I live in New York, what some would argue is one of the most plugged-in, [...]
There’s this new social media platform out called Google +. It’s like Facebook, but way better. How is it better? Well, as far as I know, and you should be warned, I don’t know much about it at all, it’s better because if you use Google + instead of Facebook, you’re never going to be [...]
Up until several months ago my life was a perfect model of balance (*cough, cough*)—a model of perfect balance until a certain friend and her husband introduced me to some goofy game, the premise of which involves enraged birds, aloof swine, and flimsy-looking structures begging to be knocked down. Some friends. This game—this stupid, trivial, [...]
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