Earthlings are Boring

Traveling through space on a rowboat

Why haven’t aliens visited us? Because we’re boring and live in a crap neighborhood.

Cities Rust

Look past New York’s shiny bits and you’ll find endless stretches of decay. It’s a part of its generations-long life cycle.

Fall Flowers

It’s late October and our wildflowers are still going strong.

On Writing

Sometimes I think of all the things I won’t write.

Finding Home

Somehow, we stumbled out of New York City and into Rhode Island. It took a long time, it was a bit accidental, but we finally found home.

Trees are Easy. The Woods are Hard

Giant caveats aside, capturing the spectacular of individual trees is much easier than capturing them in the woods. Let’s take a look.

Day Five: Love is in the Air

George speaks, the people swoon and protesters protest on. Day five of my 2004 Republican National Convention coverage for MTV News.

Day Four: Repent, Pantie People. Repent!

A Democratic stands before the 2004 Republican National Convention and demands his party repent. Day four of my 2004 Republican National Convention coverage for MTV News.

Would You Turn Your Child into a Cyborg?

A mom hacks Google Glass to help her autistic son understand facial expressions. Along the way, she wonders how neurotechnologies will influence how we augment ourselves, what traits we’ll consider inherently human, and what might be lost as we rid ourselves of them.

Learning to Love Giant Steps Again

Listening to covers affects how I hear and understand music. Here’s one that helped me rediscover John Coltrane’s Giant Steps. And here are a dozen others to make a point.

We’re About to Anger the Volcano Gods. Again

Samsung’s AI lab releases video showing how it can manipulate a single image to emulate someone talking. An AI startup creates a near perfect reproduction of a popular podcaster’s voice. It’s only just the beginning.