category archive: personal

we tweet, therefore we are

I’m snipping this and posting it here just so I have a place to refer people when they ask, as they sometimes do, what the hell the appeal is of Twitter (for me, at least). This nails it:
Twitter is a social network, yes, but it’s a social network without the superpoke scrabtaculous zombie noise and, [...]

feeling charitable?

This summer, my college buddy Philip Haar will be riding his bike cross-country alongside his father to raise money for cancer research in honor of a family friend:
The scourge of cancer either has or soon will touch everyone’s life in a very personal way. We hope that by establishing the James D. Popp Student Research [...]

transition time

I’ve just concluded a really amazing three-and-a-half-year phase of my life. When I blogged about starting my job at Hoover’s in June 2004, I really had no idea just how much I’d learn and how many amazing professional and personal relationships I’d develop.
Change is the only true constant in life, however, so tonight I’m pecking [...]