You remember that I warned you that it would depress thee to hit the "random user" link on LiveJournal? Well, just as bad but more entertaining in its "this is what our civilization has wrought?" …

Last night, while talking with Leonard, I messed up some of the lyrics of the song "It's a Small World." He and I discussed the possibility of a parody and came up with a few …

As the KQED announcer told us last night at 8, "A Prairie Home Companion will be trotted out again tomorrow morning at 11..."

Much fun recently, what with Strike Up The Band! last night (1927 war satire by the Gershwins and George S. Kaufman) and a party at my sister's today.

I really hope Google doesn't give in to the Scientologists and continue to delist xenu.net, a site critical of Scientology.

You Can't Get There From Here: The University of California at Berkeley set up some internet kiosks in the lobby of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Union. Only today did I discover that the …

Many, many media experiences over the past few days have I had.On Tuesday I saw Noam Chomsky speak. I couldn't follow his speech, which was about about theories of linguistics or something. On Wednesday I …

From Leonard: "Am I a butterfly who dreams I am a baby, or am I a baby dressed up in a butterfly suit?"

One midterm left to go. You would think a singing midterm would be cool, like a singing telegram, but it's not such a carefree affair when you're the one singing.

Remember that episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation", last season, "Attached," where Crusher says to Picard, "Coffee and croissant. That's all you want. Coffee and croissant."? To the tune of that quote: Weblogs and …