Stripping Hyperbole.

I'm addicted to adjectives.  It started when I was young.  I remember a friend saying to my siblings and I: "You guys use a lot of adjectives, do you really mean what you say."  It stuck with me.  What I've discovered in my turn to twitter is that adjectives are the first things to go.

I’m not worried…

Ok, maybe I'm a little bit worried.  I mean black holes are scary.  Even if they are itty bitty ones like Nobel Prize winning theoretical physicist Frank Wilczek says.  When I first heard there was a possibility that a black hole could be created when the world's most advanced particle accelerator opened for business I

Boycott the iPhone?

After this I'll try to stop dwelling on the iPhone. In my last post I pointed to ruinediphone.com where apparently almost 20,000 people have signed.  Do I think this will make a difference?  Not really, but I signed anyway. Why won't it make a difference?  Because people are going to buy this device anyway.  It

Why I won’t be getting an iPhone.

It pains me to say this, it really does. I won't be getting an iPhone.  I was looking forward to retiring a few items I would be replacing with my iPhone.  Things like my rather antiquated iPod, my cell phone, even my Nintendo DS.  I thought, given the plans everywhere else in the world, that