11 Mar 2004, 11:21 a.m.

Aye, Caesar, And Not Yet Gone

While in India, I had a signmaker make a canvas banner that reads, "REMEMBER YOU ARE MORTAL". I hung it up in my cubicle at Salon. Some prankster has placed a sticky note reading "PROBABLY" …

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09 Mar 2004, 17:00 p.m.

Publishment

Tonight, Salon will publish my article on visiting a Bangalore call center. Update: "A few subscribers have tentatively mentioned that I have a beautiful name, or that they loved 'Bend It Like Beckham,' but this …

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07 Mar 2004, 22:21 p.m.

My Share of Leonard's TiVo

Leonard graciously lets me watch TiVoed TV at his house. My Season Passes: Namaste America, India Waves, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. I tape Arrested Development at my …

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04 Mar 2004, 9:42 a.m.

Yay!

A gorgeous day here in SF! I am eating beet salad for breakfast and have very few support requests to answer. Life is fantastic.

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02 Mar 2004, 15:55 p.m.

Welcome, Squirrelly!

I am absolutely mooning over Defective Yeti's baby.

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02 Mar 2004, 9:37 a.m.

Just Like "In Cold Blood"

March is a decluttering fling for me, so I'll be making a trip near the end of the month to take boxes of reusable stuff to SCRAP-SF and possibly the East Bay Depot for Creative …

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02 Mar 2004, 9:18 a.m.

bum-BUM

"An infant believed to have died in a 1997 fire actually was kidnapped and raised by a woman who set the blaze to cover her path, authorities said. Now, the child's mother -- who recognized …

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01 Mar 2004, 19:04 p.m.

Andy Holloway said thoughtful things about number-based roleplaying games such…

Andy Holloway said thoughtful things about number-based roleplaying games such as Illuminati. "Perhaps I can make analogy to the way that music is mathematical in nature.....The numbers are just the rhythm to which [the story …

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01 Mar 2004, 12:53 p.m.

"Ambiguous"

On a nice place to live and an alternative to AAA.

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27 Feb 2004, 12:39 p.m.

I saw a lonely bit of refuse labelled "BASURA," which…

I saw a lonely bit of refuse labelled "BASURA," which looked ominous. After a moment, I recognized the word as "garbage," from the "Solo Basura/Garbage Only" labels on SF residential trash bins. It had seemed …

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