Archive for April 2008
sunny side (relentlessly) up
Molly and I went to brunch in San Francisco on Sunday. Citizen Cake has very spicy Bloody Marys, delectable donut balls, and an annoying website with Flash and auto-loading audio. The new floor plan of the restaurant, while airier than before, does kind of pack in the Citizens — not a tragedy if one likes…
Read Moreironic occurrence and unlikely endorsement
So I’m still at Web 2.0 Expo — tired of hearing that yet? My panel went very well yesterday. As for the Expo, I have a lot of short, Twitter-like bursts of impressions. The impressions are about as exciting as Twitter, as well. Fleeting, sometimes interesting, mostly just … impressions. As weeks are wont to…
Read Morewrite this on your hand.
This past week, I had a minor Crisis of Confidence — Career Version! Something about my job stress and having to get a website designed and this impending panel discussion at Web 2.0 Expo (at which I’m to discuss my internet habits) made me feel in over my head, a little. I was feeling outrun,…
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For every it’s/its ridiculousness by which I get incensed, I encounter a chunk of poorly-edited text that makes the decline of our civilization totally, totally worth it. A Concerned Citizen of Oxnard, California, a Citizen whom we’ll call “Mabel”, has been feeling and smelling the funk, the funk that’s been covering the county like a…
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This has been quite an unhealthy half year or so in the physics office; everyone has been sicker than they should be, and we all pass it on, round and round. I blame the fact we have to use touchpads to get in and out of areas on our floor. That, and our collective immune…
Read Moremore self promoturbation
See that lime green icon thingie at right, in the sidebar? Doesn’t it make me look prestigious and muy importante? No? But it’s a big icon! And green! So I’m speaking at this Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco on April 24. Not as resident geexpert or anything like that; more like “everyday regular user…
Read Moretwo moments of feline grace
Flickr now has video loading capabilities — hurray. Here are a couple of short clips of the lovely and talented Strabo, who lives in Queens, NY and owns my friends Tamar and Rich. Strabo performed his bathtub Pas d’Un while I was visiting at the end of 2006. Note how he holds his pose and…
Read Morea hamster wearing wedge heels
that is all. carry on. chmurka – fashion victim! by pyza*. found on cute overload.
Read Moreself promoturbation
Thanks to certain purple-hued creatures, I am now a blogger for the MyZip network. I am the sole correspondant for the 93003 area code and now have to crank out three (plus!) posts a week — blah blah blahging for the, um, biggest zip code in Ventura. I am getting paid in actual money —…
Read Moremy kind of map
I found this on campus, scrawled on the cover of a copy of the local independent paper. I love it; it makes me want to play Pictionary. You can see the conversation embedded into the lines. Cartographer: Okay, here’s the US — Guy with red pen: — and here’s California! Cartographer: Then Mexico-Central America-whatever. I…
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