15 May 2006, 17:01 p.m.

Fame

Some Fog Creekers made a fast-paced movie (2 minutes, 15 seconds) to demo some new features in FogBugz 5.0, which launches today.

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12 May 2006, 5:32 a.m.

Joke

Babak told me a knock-knock joke the other day. It really only works if you do it in a non-US accent. Knock, knock. Who's there? George. George who? George W. Bush! Variant: Knock, knock. Who's …

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12 May 2006, 1:29 a.m.

"I hate the UN so much!"

Super News! amuses me greatly. I laughed out loud at the end of "Wacky Saddam Trial."

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10 May 2006, 12:25 p.m.

Sad Bookstore News

A Clean Well-Lighted Place For Books is looking for a buyer, and Cody's on Telegraph, where I worked for almost a year, is closing. There'll still be the Fourth Street and San Francisco locations, but …

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10 May 2006, 11:44 a.m.

Transliteracy

I didn't realize until today that Babelfish translates English to and from two kinds of Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portugese, Russian, and Spanish, at least well enough to decipher an out-of-office …

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09 May 2006, 14:15 p.m.

Frances's Obituary

Leonard is the oldest child of an oldest child. I just realized that. Man, I miss her.

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08 May 2006, 18:50 p.m.

Steve Carrell, An Inspiration

"Orignally wanted to be a lawyer, but he reached a question on an application form that said 'Why do you want to be a lawyer?' He couldn't think of anything."

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08 May 2006, 10:00 a.m.

Live, In These United States!

I'm wearing my wedding pants today. They are the only pair of white pants I own. I have to do laundry. Overseas Indian customer service representatives are the only ones who can pronounce my last …

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08 May 2006, 0:45 a.m.

Viewer Discretion & Tissues Advised

I can't get this poignant safer-sex ad out of my head.

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06 May 2006, 14:45 p.m.

Freaking Mouse

Aaaaargh. I hate hate hate having a mouse in the apartment. I don't know what's worse, seeing it or not knowing where it is.

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