Jack The Scribbler

My Airing of Grievances, series of 2011

BLAME it on Seinfeld.

In an episode entitled “The Strike,” Frank Costanza, a minor but very funny character in the show, unintentionally popularized Festivus, described as a festival for the rest of us. [See: Festivus, Frank Costanza, The Strike]

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Ergonomics isn't everything: A review of the Stabilo's Move Gel Pen

Dustbuster or miniature pleasure device? It's the Stabilo's Move gelpen as shown in Stabilo's website.

THERE are two kinds of pens.

Those that look like sex toys and those that don’t.

The Stabilo’s Move gelpen—sold and displayed in select National Bookstore branches in Metro Manila—belongs—arguably—to the first category.

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How Blackberry, Twitter, and friends helped improve this website (such as it is)

You can call it crowdsourcing.

But I can’t.

Because I don’t know what that means exactly.

And second of all, it didn’t involve a crowd.

Only four people participated, if you include me and my imaginary friend, Mang Carding.

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See Jack fail miserably at selling web ads

See Jack tweet in exactly 140 characters