Walking back from dinner, passing the park benches. "Oh good, the ne'er-do-wells are gone." "There's a couple of guys there." "Yes, but they're wearing baseball caps, not hoodies." "You're wearing a hood!" "I'm wearing a …

I discovered the second joke this morning and Leonard demanded I blog it because of its relevance to one of his thousand obsessions. What did the duck say to the barman? "Just put it on …

Great, a new breed of anxiety dream. In this one I basically get told that my lack of coding chops means I have absolutely no right to make judgments in technology matters. I woke up …

Thanks to posts by Daniel Davies that I read five years ago, I sounded like a big old smartypants in the first session of a government budgeting and finance class last night. Advantage: blogosphere!

Due to a peculiar electives situation this semester in the tech management master's program, my cohort has had to look around the university for classes to take. I'm trying to take a cost-benefit analysis class …

I arrived back home today. Much thanks to Michael and Julia, Alexei, Rachel and Jeremy, Zed and Jennifer, Angel, Susan and Daniel, and Claudia and Andrew for putting me up, and thanks to about twenty-one …

I am back in San Francisco and will be here and around till the 15th.

Last night I conversed with Leonard about the humor project that's been in the back of my mind for years: a comedic retelling of the Mahabharata akin to Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Once …

I post lots of little links in the del.icio.us account that Leonard and I share, and that keeps this blog from just being a mass of commentless links. But every once in a while I …

Scott Rosenberg and Joan Walsh remember the kind and talented Bob Watts, who died today. I worked with Bob at Salon. He was in Editorial, which kind of intimidated me. I was more on the …