I passed! "Sumana: License to Drive." Yee-ha! Before the test, as I waited for the examiner, I thought of the depressingness of the fact that I got a 1550 on my SATs and yet took …
About to go at the behind-the-wheel driver's test for the third time. People tell me to "be confident," but I was confident the last two times, and I failed. This time it's worse; my learner's …
As long as we have all these derogatory phrases for people based on their seeming pretentions to races that are not their own (e.g., Oreo, egg, banana, coconut), we should get consistent and complete, no? …
In Mexico, is the card game "Uno" called "One"?
A not-very-helpful driving lesson took place today. The most interesting thing I learned (besides the oh-so-enthralling "you're not scanning enough" and so on) was that a certain empty lot at an intersection in downtown Stockton …
Whistling update: After months of practice, I can now produce a whistle on demand (after a few false starts). Now I'm working on pitch modulation. Yesterday I finished Lem's A Perfect Vacuum. I hope to …
From the latest issue of that esteemed journal of diaspora, India Post, two items. First: in the "Woman Post" (two-page spread devoted to women), an article (if you can call it that) repeating some press …
You remember that I warned you that it would depress thee to hit the "random user" link on LiveJournal? Well, just as bad but more entertaining in its "this is what our civilization has wrought?" …
Last night, while talking with Leonard, I messed up some of the lyrics of the song "It's a Small World." He and I discussed the possibility of a parody and came up with a few …
As the KQED announcer told us last night at 8, "A Prairie Home Companion will be trotted out again tomorrow morning at 11..."
