Tomorrow is Independence Day (which I learned in my recent reading of Made in America by Bill Bryson, is a curious date for the celebration of our country’s birth— the declaration’s proposal was adopted two days earlier). Thoughts around this time inevitably turn to Americanisms like the flag, fireworks, mom’s apple pie, and the quintessential […]
Well, the three of you who actually read this column regularly may have noticed that I took quite a hiatus the past few weeks, and unannounced at that. Some of you have even expressed concern that somehow the Earth’s gravitation pull had lost its effect on me, and that I might have been somehow flung […]
The world of digital video is evolving at an alarming rate. This week, at the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, hundreds of companies gathered to show off their latest hardware and software. The message most heard at the convention is to move to digital production now.
Digital video has been […]
The end of the world is coming, whether you like it or not.
So say a multitude of people, all with a different reason and time. Of course, the most prevalent is the growing segment of the population who, in the words of my friend AAlgar, “will be on their roofs with canned food and […]
When I was a young boy, my mother was nearly certain that I would grow up to be an architect. She says that my prowess in making balanced structures with my wooden blocks was an amazing thing, and that she knew I had an eye for design. Well, she may have been right about the […]
My name is Mark, and I’m a perfectionist.
It’s not that striving for perfection isn’t a good thing, but that my perfectionism often gets in the way of actually getting something done. This really hit home recently in a few discussions I had with my friend, AAlgar. AAl and I are working on producing a […]
I love music. I almost constantly have an album or one of my mixed tapes playing in the background whether I’m at home, at work, or even (until my Walkman™ decided to die recently) on the bus or train as I commute.
I have a very wide range of tastes (or at least I think […]
