Last night, I hung out with Zack, and tonight I hung out with Adam. Very necessary, these visits. I'd go insane if all my social contact were school and home and a bit of Leonard. …
Ruthie is the Seventh Heaven equivalent of St. Alia of the Knife, Paul Atreides's younger sister, in Frank Herbert's Dune. If anyone else in the entire world has ever made that comparison before, I'd really …
I wanna be a columnist like Jon Carroll, because he can rationalize like so: I could, of course, do something. I could take steps. I could make a plan and follow it. Or I could …
According to Seth, People who don't mind living in Washington (and travel all over the world) have a fantastic opportunity to get a free software job with the Science and Human Rights project at the …
There is a coffeeshop on Shattuck near Alcatraz named "Jump'in Java". They knew there was an apostrophe somewhere, but misplaced it. Sort of cheery, really. Still looking for a place to live and a job. …
Last night I dreamt, among other things, that I was a sub-intern-level staffer at Slate, that I was treated badly by the other staff, that Michael Kinsley was a stumbling drunk who couldn't keep his …
From my recording session with Leonard on Frog/Antifrog: "That failed worse than the NEP."
Douglas Coupland's Microserfs is very, very good. I found myself returning to it after I'd finished, locating plot twists and insights. Its style reminds me of weblogs, since it's in diary-to-unspecified-audience form, and it's inspiringly …
Today I noticed that, while marking the date in a log, I had typed "3003" instead of "2002." I also wrote my first shell script, to further automate my analysis of server logs. Yay! What's …
Sometimes I believe that investigative reporting is dead, but - in case you haven't seen it yet - the San Francisco Chronicle has been fighting with the FBI for seventeen years over FOIA requests to …
