Also: Best. Expressions. EVAR.

This is a picture I did not take of a middle-aged couple, standing on the street corner, carrying a tell-tale unmarked silver plastic bag, and grinning the naughty/sneaky and thoroughly adorable grins of two people who’ve just bought something from The Stag Shop for the first time.
(Bonus un-picture!)
This is a video I did not take [...]

I was looking at this job post the other day (no, I’m not applying), and several things struck me about this:
Our founders are ex-Amazon and ex-Microsoft rockstar developers and both are ex-Waterloo.
So, okay, those items are intended to imply coolness and cred on the part of the company, its founders, and the job being advertised. [...]

This is a picture I did not take of a litter-collecting city worker moseying down the sidewalk, then pausing to poke his long-handled pincher stick into some pushes and pulling out a furry Santa hat.

I’m sure there is truth in all the stories that have come out.
Regardless, this is incredibly depressing: You Are Being Lied To About Pirates.

Quite enjoyed this. Funny and wise and true and revealing — qualities of any good trickster.

My friend and former co-worker Chaya Cooperberg’s new Globe Investor blog, Home Cents has launched! Couldn’t be more excited for her (and to read her stuff — she’s brilliant, funny, and wise beyond most people’s years).
How the woman found time to add blogging to the schedule she keeps, I haven’t the foggiest…

I don’t recall it even occurring to me when Cadence was born, though we were all breaking new ground there (and high as kites on endorphins…), but a few minutes ago I was perusing one of my sister-in-law’s albums on Facebook.
And I realized that within 24 hours of being born, Cassidy, niece #2, had been [...]

I have another niece, brought into the world early this evening, as quickly as her sister before her was.
6lbs, 4oz, and almost as much hair as it took Cadence 20 months to grow. Heh.
Welcome Cassidy Rachelle.

This is a picture I did not take of a blind man, wearing sunglasses, walking toward me on the sidewalk, accompanied by two black Labs, one on duty and wearing his work harness, and the other wearing a regular leash, clearly just enjoying being out for a walk and letting someone else “drive”.