Jessie X

This lettuce-apple-lemon drink in my Vitamix was OK. Not ultra-fabulous. But OK. Ingredients:

1/2 head of lettuce
1 apple
1/2 lemon
olive oil
4 ice cubes
bit of allspice … not sure why I added that … other than a small intuitive nod

This drink was too thick. It’d have been better with 1/2 apple and more lettuce leaves to make it [...]

Gov 2.0 Camp coming up. I’ll be there. Hot stuff in the ‘hood.

Twitter Mosaic caught my eye. ‘Tis a little app generating your twitter followers and/or twitter friends. Their biz is that you can have the generated image then printed on a T-shirt, canvas bag, coffee mug, etc. Interesting, I find this, in how it builds upon many already-structured elements to create something new. Not sure I’d [...]

But I wish I was.
In the last couple of months, a company and service keeps popping up on my radar, and it keeps drawing my attention. It’s Present.ly, and currently — as I wrote in my headline — I’m not using it.
A friend sent me a video about social media last week. I just watched [...]

I can’t offer you a million dollars, but I can offer you a zillion thanks. Each month, I like to co-host a party for the local bloggers in hoco. Here’s the li’l boilerplate text I wrote up to explain what I’m asking from someone who’d like to co-host one of our community parties.

Pick a place [...]

This girl can hoop. She’s local to Baltimore and one of the most inspiring hoopers I’ve ever known.

Hoco Tweeps, consider, if you will, following @hocoblogs on Twitter. Not much activity there yet. Perhaps it’ll grow to include more parties/events and such. I’ll at least post the monthly hocoblogs BlogTale party info.
Thummit.com is pretty cool, too. Check it out. Hyper-local data sharing. Very Web 2.0-ish, to boot. More features coming.

I found a place that sells hand-made, adult hula hoop locally. It’s fair Day’s Play on main street (Carroll Avenue) in Takoma Park. Call them at 301-270-7999. Email.

“Stiff,” is what my friend said the other day.
See, I was at a 40th bday party for a friend whom I would have guessed to have been in her early 30s. I told her that typically over the years people have guessed my age as 5-7 years younger than I am, but in recent months, [...]

Well, that’s what I’m led to conclude, at least. See, I was just flipping through the local paper serving my li’l community of Columbia; the paper is called The Columbia Flier. On pp. 11-13, there is a piece about how local residents reacted to Obama’s bid to become president. Now, as one who thoroughly enjoys [...]

Passed along to me, and now I’m passing it along to you. This is a brilliant, classic GenX piece for the times. Inspiring for a GenXer compelling for a Boomer; insightful to a Millennial.

An open apology to boomers everywhere
Your earnest, self-important prattle has gotten on Gen X nerves for decades. But now we finally [...]

I was just reminded by a friend of a blog post I wrote back in early February. It’s here and it’s long. In it, I articulate who I thought would win the presidential election and why, based on when America’s Crisis Era and cultural shift would be experienced. And, yes, “Obama by a landslide” was [...]