22 Apr 2004, 7:38 a.m.

Also Sneezy

Grumpy. Last night I dreamt that I wanted to go back to high school to brush up on math and foreign languages, but the teachers would recognize me and tell them to stop wasting their …

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21 Apr 2004, 19:54 p.m.

Perhaps "Not Passive-Aggressive" Is Too Much To Ask

I am trying to figure out the best way to let jerks on BART know that they may not hog two seats by sitting in the aisle seat while the window seat goes empty. Generally …

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21 Apr 2004, 17:57 p.m.

A Lot Of Days

I didn't know that Gavin Newsom is dyslexic. Nor that his favorite game is Twister. Nikolai Kisler, a fourth-grader, said he wished Newsom had explained how he became mayor. But he hastened to add that …

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21 Apr 2004, 15:08 p.m.

Maybe Some Of That Philip Glass (or, Usually I Listen To KUSF, I Swear)

You know, there is really no good melody for singing "guaranteed 35-minute music set."

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19 Apr 2004, 19:18 p.m.

On The Night-Table

Science Fiction/Fantasy: Le Guin's The Word For World Is Forest (heavy-handed and unappealing) and Birthday of the World And Other Stories (nonbad ratio of good to boring stories). Kress, Beaker's Dozen (fun!). Chiang, Story Of …

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16 Apr 2004, 14:58 p.m.

"Piles of meth"?

Jason Kottke knows my weakness! Comments on "Ten weird state taxes (Illegal drug tax!)" include an Al Capone reference, always welcome hereabouts.

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16 Apr 2004, 12:44 p.m.

Letters, I Read Letters

Some people use dashes instead of, say, quote marks, which makes me think Emily Dickinson has reincarnated as a Salon Premium subscriber. Others use no punctuation at all; maybe they bought cut-rate keyboards off the …

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15 Apr 2004, 12:28 p.m.

It Would Explain That Crazy Scott Rosenberg

A nursing mother in our office pumps breastmilk. When I catch a glimpse of her apparatus drying, it looks like drug paraphernalia. "Who's smoking crack at the office?! ... oh."

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14 Apr 2004, 16:33 p.m.

"I forgot to hook up the hose to the server!"

Perhaps Leonard will get a campaign-related kick out of "You know you are working too much when.....". Example: "sitting in your cube you think about how much more relaxed you'd be if you were in …

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14 Apr 2004, 15:09 p.m.

Who lives in the username next door?

Every week Salon Premium Help receives a few autoresponse emails of the type "this email address doesn't work anymore because I've changed it to avoid spam; here is the new address." Everyone's in the witness …

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