Jim’s Brain Online

My kids are looking forward to Halloween. They’ve been spending a lot of time looking through a costume catalog that came in the mail and informing us of what they’re going to be.

As someone who earned the odd graduate degree in sociology, I find that I can’t quite turn off that portion of my brain that automatically analyzes any document that I come across as a cultural artifact.

Hence I couldn’t help but notice that there were no black people in this catalog. After some more browsing I realized that I was wrong and that there actually were black men within its pages. Take a look…

Fortunately there’s no racism any more or that might be offensive or something.

So some people might remember a post in which I wrote about considering posting stories online. I’ve pretty much decided to do it.

“Pretty much” in this sense means that I’ve bought a domain and given myself hosting (I host web sites for small businesses), but, I haven’t bothered to put anything up yet.

Mind you, I’ve written stuff. Provided I go with my current plan of once/week updates, I’ve currently got a small buffer.

The URL will be inmydaydreams.com, but it’s not currently worth the bother of looking. It might be in a couple days though.

You Belong in Amsterdam

A little old fashioned, a little modern – you’re the best of both worlds. And so is Amsterdam. Whether you want to be a squatter graffiti artist or a great novelist, Amsterdam has all that you want in Europe (in one small city).

UPDATE: I suppose I ought to be a little bit more explicit regarding what amuses me about this. My grandparents (on my dad’s side) immigrated from the Netherlands. My great-grandparents on my mom’s side immigrated from there as well. Basically, the vast majority of my ancestry comes from the Netherlands and it looks like I need to go back.