With SXSW right around the corner I think it’s time to dust off ye olde blog. We’ve been through some rough times around here the past couple of years, from losing my original domain at xinroman.com to almost losing the second one (turns out that the customer service people at GoDaddy are actually extremely helpful [...]
You know how every once in a while you hear one of those statistics about how lazy and tv-obsessed Americans are and you think “how is that even possible?” Like the one that said 40% of Americans will sit and watch a television show they don’t like just because they don’t want to change the [...]
Automatic flushing toilets were either not designed with women in mind, or not tested extensively on women before they were deployed in millions of bathrooms across America. Without getting into graphic detail, let’s just say that sometimes there are “other things” that women are trying to do when they are on the toilet besides simply [...]
This screengrab really speaks for itself:
When it comes to technology, I often find myself trying to live in two camps at once. On the one hand I am interested in new technology and new interfaces, and I want to be one of the first to try something and make some conjecture about how that new thing is or isn’t going [...]