My last day. Suddenly hot, as though to impress upon me that May is for flowering and breaking up and moving on and graduating and leaving behind. I tidied shelves and helped customers choose gifts. …
Leonard is considering moving elsewhere in SF. I'm considering moving to SF in the early fall. Nandini's heading to DC for grad school. Sarah might move further into Oakland, Adam and SteveR to New York, …
A Slate writer slams Bill McKibben's Enough, and in passing mentions the Copernican Principle: You Are Not Special. "More precisely, the principle says that, as a matter of statistical necessity, most observers must be 'typical.' …
How do you reference Britney Spears if you don't know how to spell her name? One spam refers to her as "B. Spears."
I am so proud of this gal! She got on the phone and busted her fiance for shaking down her dad for more dowry -- on the wedding day. Props especially to the relevant law …
Yesterday I had two or three social occasions. Zed and I talked at lunch, Leonard came by after work, and a bunch of celebrants invaded the Swiss enclave of Fondue Fred's in Adam-graduating merriment. Only …
Googling "city" (results): the first actual city is Kansas City.
How's it going? "Going great. Playing music. Doesn't get any better. I thought you were going to ask me about the war or something." "Working hard. Children are grown. Pretty good shape. In a forward …
Some entity or other, I hear, will put on a free showing of the fun Seattle grunge history documentary Hype! tomorrow evening (Wednesday 14 May) at the United Artists theatre in Berkeley. I enjoyed it …
I see no Google text ads for the keyword "soothing". A customer recently asked for "McLure's book, The Medium Is the Massage." He's not the first. I mix up the author's name all the time, …
