Just last week someone called up my programmer flatmate and offered him another job, as though it's 1997 or something.

Leonard on being a Salon Premium support tech: "You'd be like a telemarketer, only people would call you. You'd be working in Soviet Russia."

I think lawyers claim Gandhi like Republicans claim Lincoln.

Bad news: someone stole a car and guns within, at Shattuck and Durant, in broad daylight. Good news: publicity for Venus, one of my favorite restaurants.

I love reading government documents. The first book I remember reading is the Pennsylvania driver's manual, and for a week after I had nightmares about cars. (The one I remember: my mother is driving and …

I saw Office Space with many other people (including Adam, Josh, and Karen) and enjoyed it. The Saturday midnight movies at the Act I & II sell out quick (I had to snag a ticket …

While I have been muddling through taxes, Leonard (who has already done his taxes) wrote and put up his side of the DC story, which to him was mostly a "PyCon Adventure".

Michael points out that it's not that doing taxes is time-consuming, it's that doing them optimally is time-consuming. After all, in many cases you could just do the EZ or the A (abbreviated) form and …

Trying to do my taxes. I'm relatively low-income, so I should be able to use the EZ (easy, simple, "I'm poor") forms instead of the scarier full-size forms. I want to go to the Mango …

I'm now looking for a job somewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area where I could write or edit, or possibly sell things to people and institutions that could possibly need them. Massive rocking of …