At Balboa Park BART station I often see an ad for Contentville. The poster's background features several -- maybe forty -- words and phrases which ostensibly represent subjects one could research via Contentville, e.g., snowboarding, …

Before I turn in for the night -- Rick Starr has returned to campus! He's a lounge-singer type what hangs around Sproul Plaza -- usually nearer Bancroft Way than Sather Gate or Ludwig's Fountain -- …

Today I had lunch at a house with a Silicon valley couple and its tot. I played with the kiddie's Tinkertoys, the first time I've ever played with Tinkertoys that I can remember. I wish …

From Leonard's favorite philosophical tract this week:Then we replicate in drama what we were spared in history. Darn, and I got a hall pass, too!

Oh, the last thing that Kavalier man said to me before we parted ways was, "Have you read Siddhartha?" Yes, I have! Siddhartha and Steppenwolf, I think, are the two Hesse works I've read. Right …

It would be completely unscientific to conclude, on the basis of one evening's anecdotal evidence, that people who ride the BART on Sunday night tend to read more highbrow material than the average BART rider. …

An incomplete list of stuff I've lost. my little red notebook in which I wrote notes from St. Petersburg, Frankfurt, D.C., and Stockton and Berkeley the Macy's gift card my parents gave me for my …

I am sure that I am not the first person to note that the openings to Dar Williams's "The Christians and the Pagans" and the Indigo Girls' "Closer to Fine" are pretty darn similar. Have …

I dreamt last night that I reconciled with my old archnemesis from high school, Suzanne R. She goes to Stanford now. I'll send her an email sometime soon asking how things are going. I've changed …

Back from my 30-hour trip to & from Stockton via Davis and Sunnyvale. I have a lot of stuff to say. First of all, though, I have to remember to set my few clocks back …