Andy Ihnatko's YELLOWTEXTThe weblog of Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times and Macworld tech columnist.One-Sixth Of Rome Wasn't Built In Four Hours- February 14, 2006 Four hours in LAX. 4256 words in article.http://www.cwob.com/yellowtext/yellowtext0206.html#69053 Del Griffith - The Final Chapter- February 13, 2006 I proudly summarize the events of my day thus far. I sit in the lobby of my hotel in La Jolla, awaiting a shuttle to San Diego airport and I assure you that I am garlanded with success: 572 words in article.http://www.cwob.com/yellowtext/yellowtext0206.html#31206 Still in Elba- February 13, 2006 First paragraph is a photo. 1516 words in article.http://www.cwob.com/yellowtext/yellowtext0206.html#60550 Exiled.- February 12, 2006 I am sitting in a lovely room at a resort in La Jolla, California, about twenty minutes away from San Diego. Palm trees lurk impatiently just outside my picture window. The pool opens in ten minutes and there seems to be some sort of putting green available. I didn't see it when I checked in last night, but it was dark, and how else to explain the sentence "Putters and Balls available at no charge at the Front Desk" in the Guest Services Guide Golf equipment is used for two things and two...http://www.cwob.com/yellowtext/yellowtext0206.html#76706 I'd like to teach the world to sing.- February 6, 2006 I. Love. Everybody. 1049 words in article.http://www.cwob.com/yellowtext/yellowtext0206.html#72443 Surely On This Side Of Jerusalem, None Suffer As I Do- February 6, 2006 Ladies and Gentlemen, if you've been showing compassion in any form towards your fellow Man today -- you've given all of your change to a homeless person and prayed that they would escape the sub-freezing temperatures precited for this evening, or perhaps declined to say "It looks like a cow ate a whole bag of Skittles and then all over your head" to a co-worker when they invited your opinions on the new hairstyle -- please just sort of send this window into the background and read it...http://www.cwob.com/yellowtext/yellowtext0206.html#73895 And then, this is when Courage beat out Coffee.- February 5, 2006 Folks, I am giving a talk on AppleScript. I have been talking for 6 hours with one hour break for lunch. I may snap, or I may be seeing God. 35 words in article.http://www.cwob.com/yellowtext/yellowtext0206.html#10910 Bobbing Along the Pacific- February 5, 2006 Just a quickie, posted from the good ship Oosterdam, currently steaming south to...well, wherever it's headed. Mexico, somewhere. If the owners of this ship refuse to trust me enough to take the helm then I can't be bothered to learn where we're going. 544 words in article.http://www.cwob.com/yellowtext/yellowtext0206.html#48471 The Marryin' Man, Part 4 - The Service- February 3, 2006 Too, too busy to do a proper post, but I need to put something in before midnight to make it to the end of my "something every day before I leave for Mexico" pledge. So: here's the full text of the wedding service I wrote and officiated for Shawn and Lesa. 732 words in article.http://www.cwob.com/yellowtext/yellowtext0206.html#78693 Millionaire's Blues- February 2, 2006 Okay, remember the other day when I snarked about that the dude who invented many of the key facts in his best-selling autobiography Whether his book was full of lies or truth, whether he got caught or got off scot-free, whether Oprah supported him or (as happened) she had him back on her show just so she could spend a whole hour telling him what an ae he is...he still gets to keep all the dough he made off of the second-best-selling book of 2005. 455 words in article.http://www.cwob.com/yellowtext/yellowtext0206.html#20942 |