To quote Leonard from years ago: "My current task is reading O'Reilly's Java Servlet Programming. The guy who wrote the book is sitting at the desk across from mine. This is weird."
Seeing Scott Rosenberg for like the twentieth time and feeling the urge to tell him "Ohmigod I read your blog." Sitting in on an editorial meeting, and then, just now, looking at the front page …
The most overpowering feeling of the day came when I was reading a Salon article about Buffy As Anthem, and I thought, I can't believe I'm reading Salon at Salon. It feels like I'm violating …
IF this job lasts, as I believe it will, then sometime in the early fall I'll move to San Francisco. Leonard doesn't plan to move his homestead, so now I have solid criteria for my …
An analysis of the genius of the first *NSYNC album.... Fantasy #3: He'll be sorry he left you, girl. Probably the most shameless and impressive gambit this album plays is presenting a whopping THREE consecutive …
Klezmer at the Freight & Salvage and recommended (by an improvisateur) improv. Also, Cody's Books author appearances in June will include Ursula K. Le Guin!
My last day. Suddenly hot, as though to impress upon me that May is for flowering and breaking up and moving on and graduating and leaving behind. I tidied shelves and helped customers choose gifts. …
Leonard is considering moving elsewhere in SF. I'm considering moving to SF in the early fall. Nandini's heading to DC for grad school. Sarah might move further into Oakland, Adam and SteveR to New York, …
A Slate writer slams Bill McKibben's Enough, and in passing mentions the Copernican Principle: You Are Not Special. "More precisely, the principle says that, as a matter of statistical necessity, most observers must be 'typical.' …
How do you reference Britney Spears if you don't know how to spell her name? One spam refers to her as "B. Spears."
