The Oracle of Apollo Snippets from the life of Apollo Lee

Posts from January 2005

FedEx Asshole

Two packages arrived for me yesterday. While at work, I noticed that one of the drivers had attempted delivery. I quickly called the shipping company and asked them to hold the package at the facility and not attempt to deliver it in the middle of the day, while I’m not home. Package 2 was from […]


Shame On You, Apple

Today, Apple introduced a few new products. As a devotee of their computers since the Reagan administration, I always follow MacWorld Expo with some interest — especially this year in which I’m tossing around the notion of a new 12” PowerBook. In Apple’s ad copy for the new iPod Shuffle: “If you favor cycling to […]


40 Things in 2004

Stolen from Marc Canter. What did you do in 2004 that you’d never done before? I rode over 5000 miles on my bicycle, lost over 30 pounds, and got a job without applying. Did you keep your New Year’s resolutions and will you make more for next year? I kept some of them, exceeded some […]