A colleague's spouse is in Arsenic and Old Lace, which I've never read nor seen, at the College of Marin this month. I should go.

If you call my cell phone, it will click at me a few times, then play the Good Eats melody.

Terry Pratchett is at Cody's in Berkeley tonight. Other appearances this month (after October use this link, probably) include Berkeley Breathed and Molly Ivins. I've finished reading the first three of Alexander McCall Smith's No. …

A funny lawyer weblog: Patent Pending.

Leonard and I registered to vote on the same day at a local Department of Motor Vehicles this summer, and the DMV silently misplaced or misprocessed my registration, and correctly processed his. So I went …

Leonard finally persuaded me to end weeks of lethargy and let him fix my install of NewsBruiser, which broke when my host upgraded its install of Python. So I am back. Since my last post, …

Large Earthquakes in the United States, Magnitude 7.0 and Greater. Ten Largest Earthquakes in the World Since 1900. The Largest Earthquakes in the United States. I used to live in Missouri and my school had …

Perhaps a very special post-work meal for vegetarians who work in downtown SF might be at Millennium.

Already businesses use incentives to get customers to refer friends as potential customers. A dry-cleaner might give you a free pound of wash-and-fold, a web site might give you a free month if you refer …

Today's phone conversation that caused my cubicle neighbor to compliment me on my patience: I explain to a Salon Premium gift subscription recipient what the Internet is, how the Web is different from e-mail, how …