Archive for October 2002
various unrelated things
Oliver Willis thinks it means that blogging has jumped the shark. Mark Pilgrim marvels at how he can manage to stay on top of things after all these years. I’m just gonna smile: Doonesbury takes on blogging.
didn’t know about this tech bookstore, and I really want this book….Bookpool (thanks, K!)
fyi: best value notebooks.
an interesting read: […]
sad beautiful words
I have no comment, but must quote:
Getting towards midnight, with beer: Damn it, I want to drink and dance and sing, with my friends, Rick’s friends; I want to burn wood and smell the smoke and piss in the sea, shout at the moon, cry at the beauty of this world and swear eternal opposition […]
what kind of world do we live in?
- For Richer - 11 page story in the New York Times about inequality in America, and how it’s grown over the last 20 years. quite disheartening.
abundance
today I returned a pair of lopping shears that I’d borrowed from our friends around the corner…and returned with a tray full of plants. (I have only a vague idea of where I’m going to plant them.) I’ve never been a gardener, and I’m fascinated to watch Dani work in her garden, which is […]
this is officially hell cool
not that I haven’t had internet access in my living room before, but this is the first time that it’s come in from another room & another computer. yeah, I finally figured out the networking thing, with a positively antique hub. for the time being, the cable is strung rather loosely across the […]
I thought I was getting a cold:
sniffly, sore throat, and a particular wooziness. but last night I actually got a reasonable amount of sleep, and today I worked at home, and tonight I feel much more like a real human being.
in other news:
on Tuesday night, I was watching Buffy, and Willow was wondering if another character were “Googleable”. first […]
