Purveyor of Iniquities

I thought that YLT’s Summer Sun was beautiful, but, on second listen, it turns out that the album is actually just boring, with the exception of the only non-meandering song on it, “Little Eyes.” Georgia’s vocals on that track are also among her best, and her harmonizing with Ira is reminiscent of that on …Inside [...]

Bringing together the two companies to whom I offer the most unsolicited advice, I propose that Apple run a Google-API driven (or otherwise Google-run) web search and build it into Safari as the default search site (and available to others at some URL). Call it “Gapple.”
For Gapple, Apple should keep Google’s minimal layout, use textads [...]

(American Analog Set: Know by Heart)
Clutter for OS X works well. I’m not so into its core usage (putting little CD icons all over your desktop), but it’s the easiest way to get album covers into iTunes.
I’m not sure why Apple doesn’t offer this capability themselves, using images from its Music Store. Overall, there [...]

I don’t think he’ll mind me mentioning it, so here goes: Emmett found out today that he was not admitted to the University of Pennsylvania’s law program. Neither was I, though I found out much earlier than he.
Even brushing my personal feelings aside, there’s something rotten about this. Emmett is enthusiastic and articulate (a [...]

They worked. That is, everyone who was supposed to graduated.
But was the sales pitch for the alumni club following the awarding of degrees really necessary?
My sister’s diploma seems small. It’s about half the size of mine. Plus, it’s in English, which is so declasse.
I managed to out-drink a prison guard from Lewisburg, PA, who weighs [...]