My sister Maritza gave birth on Monday to my first niece, the beautiful Olivia Zoraida Torres, after a whopping 29 minutes in the delivery room. Dani and I went to visit the little bundle of joy yesterday, and took a few pictures.
I held little Olivia for about an hour while she slept peacefully. Even when [...]
In negotiations, one of the most difficult things to do is the walk-away. When you tell the seller their price is too high, and you turn to go. Even if you REALLY want what they’re selling, you need to be prepared to turn your back on it and walk off, or you run the risk [...]
It was interesting to see that the lead article on this morning’s NYTimes.com was on how cell phone novels have come to dominate Japanese publishing. Fully half of the top ten bestsellers of the last year were novels written a little at a time on cellphone keypads, in text message form, and then uploaded to [...]
The TiVo broke the other day.
Anyone who knows me knows how much I love TiVo. It’s one of the greatest inventions of the last 20 years, and that’s saying a LOT. I’ve gotten so many of my friends hooked on the TiVolution that I should be a goddamn salesman for the company.
And yet, even I [...]
So.
With the baby coming, I am feeling a lot of pressure to finish this second book on time, so I will essentially have two in the can during the panicked period of diapers and late night feedings. Even if the UK goes ahead with their plan to print in August, I will still be [...]
New pictures of little Squirmy Brett yesterday. Lookit that cute little big-headed monster!
Actually, it kind of looks like Gollum….
Let’s hope that’s all they have in common.
I didn’t make any grand resolutions this year, because I think 2008 will be a year of great upheaval in my life, and I didn’t want to make it worse by posing some undue restrictions on my will.
But I did make a little one.
No matter how juicy the gossip column headlines on my AOL homepage [...]
2007 has been an amazing year. Really.
I know we as a culture seem to say that every year, to try and make the endless drudgery of another year seem important, as if Britney’s 16 year old sister getting pregnant is some event worthy of historical note. Sure, there are world events that ARE of historical [...]