It’s been roughly four years since I read an article in National Geographic Adventure about the San Juan Islands, and the image the article painted for me was nothing like reality. Looking back, I don’t know how I could have imagined such a darkly romantic locale existing in the real world; my imagination had conjured [...]
Thanks to a certain shark-obsessed pal o’ mine (no, I’m not referring to myself), my Isla Guadalupe has been cropping up on websites all around the web. In case you missed it the first go-round, read it now at one of the following: Travel Explorations RealTravel IgoUgo BootsnAll
Last year, I had the opportunity to help edit Dave Winfield’s book Dropping the Ball: Baseball’s Troubles and How We Can and Must Solve Them, which is now out in print. I’ve never been a sports nut, but if I had to pick a sport to get behind, it would be baseball, if only because [...]
We all could sense the ship taking on water even as early as last year. One by one, the employees departed, and their empty cubes (valued at about $10k a pop) remained ominously unfilled. Then last week, the iceberg hit. I broke the news to a colleague, who was on vacation at the time and [...]
Atom feed and link to adding to My Yahoo! now work. Rejoice. The Atom link had been killing me for some time. I just couldn’t figure out why I was getting an error message every time I tried to subscribe to my own blog. Finally, I had to resort to asking for help (thank you [...]
Alas, I’ve yet to make an Oscar speech, but I had my own version of glory today when my shark article made it to the AOL Welcome Screen (once the “most valuable piece of Internet real estate,” as the Mother Ship told us drones, but I doubt it is any longer). When my Oahu shark [...]
It’s official. I gave notice at AOL last week to accept a position at Disney Internet Group, a place that — as far as I could tell from the scant time I was there interviewing — seems far more together than the CityGuide department where I’ve toiled away for the last 6+ years. I’ve thoroughly [...]
First thing I’ve learned: Keeping track of two blogs ain’t fun. So I’m going to consolidate to just this one. I’ll still update MySpace with a line or two, then link off to this one, which will act as my main blog. As a followup to my entry about chumming for sharks the other day, [...]
Just yesterday I was explaining to my technically challenged mother the importance of Googling your name every few weeks. In the past, I’ve discovered there’s a runaway and a porn star (possibly the same person) who share my first and last name, which is one reason I’d decided to add my middle name to my [...]
The Seattle PI just published my piece on underwater adventures in Oahu. Check it out:http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/getaways/288156_hawunderwater12.html Not too shabby. A few edits here and there, but otherwise, the editor didn’t touch much. Just wish he’d suppressed the urge to add that damn exclamation mark.
