Wil Wheaton runs his kids' first dungeon crawl and it's tender and sweet.
Brendan, a good houseguest and a friend, visited and now he is gone. I hope he is flying safely. On the other hand, Leonard is back! Gladness. Today a colleague reassured me that I won't …
Thanks to Alexei, Zack, and Patrick for a nice weekend, including movies, a game of Girl Genius, and several tasty meals with friends. While with Alexei on Saturday, I realized that I had broken my …
This weekend I reread Laura Ingalls Wilder's The Long Winter. Today a loose window in the office is letting in mournful, wailing wind.
Two bits of news in the Bay Area that connect through the sexual taboos and laws at the heart of each issue. First, a thrice-convicted sex offender, Cary Verse, has gone through a bunch of …
"Leonard Richardson, software developer with the Wesley Clark for President campaign, stands in an empty Clark campaign headquarters in Little Rock, Ark., early Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2004, as he talks about his plans. Richardson said …
I just got back from a weeklong trip to India to see my folks. It is very nice to be home. I tried to use beverages to get me on the right sleep schedule during …
On a midday errand jaunt, I bought some Fitzgerald and Trollope's The Way We Live Now at Stacey's. I asked some coworkers about Trollope and we talked about Victorian novels a bit, both the IT …
I used to say "yup" as slang for "yes." This turned into "yupper," which turned into "yupper.com." The matching negative was "nupper.com." My sister hated this.
