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 …
I finished Douglas Coupland's Microserfs. Anirvan and other friends had raised my expectations of this book, and Coupland matched them. A very good book. It made me tear up and several times it made me …
There are annular eclipses, as I saw today, but I kinda prefer Leonard eclipses, which happen every day. I like it when Leonard blocks my view of the sun. I took the Law School Admissions …
Welcome, Susanna! One more and we get a toaster. I don't think I've dreamed much recently, not since that nap-dream about candy weblogs and aggro environmentalists and doom.
I really have to be grateful to Kris. Some Mondays, Wednesdays, and even Fridays, the first glimpse of joy I find in the morning is when I remember that a new Checkerboard Nightmare is up. …
