Dispatches, thoughts, and miscellanea from writer Jon Konrath

Month: October 2014

  • Falling down the data hoarding k-hole

    I am becoming a data hoarder. I think I’m genetically predisposed to hoarding, or maybe it was just where I grew up, but every time I saw the show Hoarders on TV, I always thought that like every other person I knew in Indiana had a house that looked like that.  I’m not saying that…

  • The new camera and the march of progress

    I could not sleep a week ago, and woke up in the middle of the night, nauseous from the heat. I went downstairs to sit on the couch with the iPad, and pulled the trigger on an Amazon points subsidized purchase of a new camera, something I’ve been eyeing for a bit. This was the…

  • more return to blogging garbage

    I saw a bunch of articles recently about “the return of the blog” and suddenly remembered I have a blog and I never update it, and maybe while I’m circling rudderless on this next book, I should maybe think about that. I have all of these various “content boxes” to fill, and never know how…