Seth: Thank goodness I'm not the only one who confuses Jakob Nielsen and Joel Spolsky. I assume Spolsky would take that as a compliment and Nielsen wouldn't; I see references to Nielsen on Spolsky's page …
I just received a spam...wait, is "spam" a collective noun, like "water" or "meat," or some item, like "can" or "book"? Anyway, I received an unsolicited commercial e-mail advertising life insurance. One line: "Attention All …
Joel Spolsky points to a paper on writing, written by a Harvard philosophy prof for his students. First, texts on good writing depress me, because I usually treat them as a hypochondriac would guidelines on …
The Sunnyvale Hindu temple -- one of the temples where my family regularly worships and socializes -- renovates and renovates and renovates. But the altar is always there, the children always run around and play, …
In & Out: This 1997 Kevin Kline comedy focuses on an Indianan high school teacher whose former student says he's gay when he's not. Amusing and farcical. I first watched this flick with Angel, years …
Why must Bad Subjects texts be such wankery? Why is "I was ready for punk rock." the first simple declarative sentence in this analysis-cum-memoir of The Prisoner?
I wanted to go see Barbara Ehrenreich speak from noon to one. But she was speaking at North Gate, which is a rather distant walk from Dwinelle, where my 11-12 Russian class meets, and I'd …
Lunch with Brandon."So, I have it from reliable sources that, in case of catastrophe, war, plague, famine, whatever, we only need a thousand people to survive. A thousand people, and the human race can go …
My two main TV-watching experiences this weekend belonged to "Touched by an Angel" and the TV-edited version of In & Out. Touched by an Angel. This CBS prime-time drama/anthology (Saturday nights) has s very heavily …
Even before I knew consciously how absurd most marketing tactics and political rhetoric sound to a conscious ear, The Tick made me laugh very, very hard. Today's IMDB quote:Tick: Everybody was a baby once, Arthur. …
