CIO Magazine becomes the latest publication to pile onto Detroit:

It’s easy to pick on poor Detroit, but it would hardly be any IT staffer’s destination of choice right now. What’s left of the tech jobs at automobile industry companies that haven’t already been outsourced (see: GM) is quite low as those companies and their suppliers try to survive bankruptcy and the global recession. Detroit also has the distinction of being named to the top 10 of Forbes’ “Fastest Dying U.S. Cities” list.

Way to kick us when we’re down. Thankfully I have a job right now, but who knows these days…

Today is our 2nd anniversary. I can’t believe how time flies, yet I feel like we’ve been together forever (in a good way). I am so thankful for Christa, and so thankful that she is my wife.

/.obnoxiously sentimental mode off.\

Hello cruel world, welcome to the Detroit party. Forget all your troubles, lay down your cares, everything is waiting for you … downtown.
Credit: Metro Times

Dear Ice Cream Truck circling the neighborhood nearby like a shark on a boating accident,

It’s 1:30 in the afternoon you idiot, the kids are in school.

Am I the only one that wonders what one would eat at an internet breakfast and why exactly it’s $79?

Introducing another semi-regular post subject: What The Kids Are Listening To…

Note to self:

When returning from a walk with your wife and dog, it’s probably not a good idea to tell her it was nice to take her for a walk.

Detroit Hip-Hop artists Invincible & Finale rhyme about the impacts of gentrification on the Motor City.

It’s a slow news day, I’m bored, and for no other reason than that I’m posting this video. It’s also catchy and I like the scenery. So sue me.

Communication through the Internet is by definition disembodied. Living Internet users are already ghosts in the machine.