Bad news: someone stole a car and guns within, at Shattuck and Durant, in broad daylight. Good news: publicity for Venus, one of my favorite restaurants.
I love reading government documents. The first book I remember reading is the Pennsylvania driver's manual, and for a week after I had nightmares about cars. (The one I remember: my mother is driving and …
I saw Office Space with many other people (including Adam, Josh, and Karen) and enjoyed it. The Saturday midnight movies at the Act I & II sell out quick (I had to snag a ticket …
While I have been muddling through taxes, Leonard (who has already done his taxes) wrote and put up his side of the DC story, which to him was mostly a "PyCon Adventure".
Michael points out that it's not that doing taxes is time-consuming, it's that doing them optimally is time-consuming. After all, in many cases you could just do the EZ or the A (abbreviated) form and …
Trying to do my taxes. I'm relatively low-income, so I should be able to use the EZ (easy, simple, "I'm poor") forms instead of the scarier full-size forms. I want to go to the Mango …
I'm now looking for a job somewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area where I could write or edit, or possibly sell things to people and institutions that could possibly need them. Massive rocking of …
"Have any of you been to Japan? I mean, I guess I'd know if you had, but still." "I've never been there, but I know things about it." "Anyway, do you know anything about their …
I haven't been remembering my dreams lately, except for a vague theme of "going back to school" (high school and college, that is). On the other hand, Joe has been having pretty darn fascinating ones.
Y'all who enjoy really sarcastic foulmouthed weblogs will like stereolabrat. Sample whining: if Philip Morris has such a huge army of lobbyists, how did the New York City bar smoking prohibition get passed? Also, Salon …