11 Sep 2003, 11:16 a.m.

Currently reading The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde, an alternate-history…

Currently reading The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde, an alternate-history time-travel literary detective story. Reminds me of Connie Willis in that you see academics doing time travel in modern England, only it's not as annoying. …

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11 Sep 2003, 10:39 a.m.

Selling My Car

A resident of Los Angeles records his experiences learning to live carfree. Hurray! I take BART to and from work (occasionally Muni trolleys for variety). I almost never use my car. Leonard and I could …

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11 Sep 2003, 10:18 a.m.

Enterprise Followup

At least one reader disagreed with my piece about Enterprise, arguing that Enterprise simply is not canon. One explanation, which does make a kind of sense: this is the timeline as changed after Zefram Cochrane …

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09 Sep 2003, 19:52 p.m.

Bam! "Enterprise" doesn't have a gimmick. It has a premise,…

Bam! "Enterprise" doesn't have a gimmick. It has a premise, an interesting question to answer: How did humanity go from the bottom to the top of the galactic totem pole?....isolated low points can't mar this …

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09 Sep 2003, 18:32 p.m.

Zippy Would Be Proud

The new head of tech is concentrating on the important things.

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09 Sep 2003, 16:52 p.m.

Author

I'm getting published in Salon. Later tonight my State-of-the-Trek piece on Star Trek Enterprise will go up in the Arts and Entertainment section. I saw it in pre-publication form, panicked and thought it was awful, …

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08 Sep 2003, 22:27 p.m.

Trying to write. Time will tell whether weblogging has…

Trying to write. Time will tell whether weblogging has strengthened or weakened my essaying skills.

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06 Sep 2003, 13:35 p.m.

Angel Is Here!

Yay! My friend Angel is here and we're spending the weekend together. She got to meet many of my friends last night at a small party. I was urged to save for posterity (here) the …

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05 Sep 2003, 16:22 p.m.

Idea: Recipe Party. (Discovered while idly googling "party recipe.")…

Idea: Recipe Party. (Discovered while idly googling "party recipe.") Obvious implementation: Everyone brings several copies of a favorite recipe, and if possible the finished product. Amusing implementation: you must pretend to be a recipe for …

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04 Sep 2003, 17:15 p.m.

AdWords Tells All

"Organize" means The Container Store more than it does "Joe Hill." "Organise" doesn't mean anything at all.

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