This post was originally published on November 13, 2006 (which wasn’t actually a Friday). It has been edited for style and content.

The date made me wonder why a Friday the 13th earns special mention any time an event comes up on that day. Consider that there are twelve months in a year, and each one [...]

Earlier today I stopped by a Starbucks in Albany, NY while waiting for my girlfriend’s class to end. Not far from where I sat, a twenty-something-year-old man sat at a table with his Apple laptop, scribbling on some sheets of paper.

Certainly that describes a large percentage of the Starbucks clientele, but I’ll risk it and [...]