Sometimes I believe that investigative reporting is dead, but - in case you haven't seen it yet - the San Francisco Chronicle has been fighting with the FBI for seventeen years over FOIA requests to …

I finished Douglas Coupland's Microserfs. Anirvan and other friends had raised my expectations of this book, and Coupland matched them. A very good book. It made me tear up and several times it made me …

There are annular eclipses, as I saw today, but I kinda prefer Leonard eclipses, which happen every day. I like it when Leonard blocks my view of the sun. I took the Law School Admissions …

Welcome, Susanna! One more and we get a toaster. I don't think I've dreamed much recently, not since that nap-dream about candy weblogs and aggro environmentalists and doom.

I really have to be grateful to Kris. Some Mondays, Wednesdays, and even Fridays, the first glimpse of joy I find in the morning is when I remember that a new Checkerboard Nightmare is up. …

Now that I think about it, as much as I've disliked the bother of taking the GRE and so on, I've felt quite exhilirated in several situations where I've cared much less about my performance …

Tomorrow I will take the Law School Admissions Test. No, I don't want to go to law school. Rather, I want to avoid getting bothered by my sister and mother, and therefore I take the …

Today my voice made its debut at Leonard's site, as backup vocals on "Frog/Antifrog", available as an Ogg and an MP3. It's one of the songs Leonard played for Adam and his friends last week. …

Hey, I just found out about a neat, savvy East Bay blog, MemeMachineGo!, because the author cited me on the story of the Kenyan farmers who just found out about the World Trade Center attack …

From the quite enjoyable setup session before Nandini's party yesterday: "That's not a laptop! That's a cat!" I just had a very odd dream. The first weird concept: a candy, like M&M's, whose wrapper was …