I walked along Blake Street and saw a woman in full graduation regalia. I shouted, "Congratulations!" She responded, fist raised, "Perseverance!" This is not a story, but a marker.
First: Gollum in an ad for CapitolOne credit cards. "What has it got in its wallet?" And second: will my new job have me pay a Salon Insurance Premium?
If J. Bradford DeLong is going to say that I havesmart views on why comments sections of weblogs (and everything else collective on the internet) tend to degenerate rapidly to USENET levels of chaos and …
Leonard called me at work to tell me to read Dear Raed. Salam Pax is okay! Thank God, he's okay! He's alive! Just thinking of it brings tears to my eyes. Update (10:50 am): I …
In two weeks, about a year after my graduation day, I'll start a new job as a Salon.com Premium support tech. I think it'll suit me really well. Salon Premium: Spread The Meme-ium! Getting this …
Just got my offer letter. Dear Sumana, I am pleased to offer you a position with Salon... Officially: YAY! Oddly enough, I've found my new job, my current job, and my apartment and boyfriend without …
It's now been about six weeks since Salam Pax, a Baghdad weblogger, last posted.
One of our distributors maintains a web page that alerts booksellers to hot new titles about to hit the market. One such title: Lost Souls of the Dead and Dying by J. Berkman. Publisher Marketing: …
The Onion produced Our Dumb Century, a book of fake newspapers satirizing twentieth-century US history. Every once in a while a headline heralds that some sensationalized court case is "The Trial Of The Century." The …
Steve Robertson's fiancée, Alice, now has a weblog. "Wow. Getting into the fabulous world of weblogs - I feel like I should have taken some oath or something. However, now Sumana can think that I'm …