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Archives for March 2006

a clever trick for the memory-impaired

I’m terrible with names. And I want to remember who I met this weekend. So I’m using the registrant directory and adding people I’ve met to my contact list. The critical thing, I’m finding, is to process my photos and business card swaps asap. Otherwise, the names go in one ear and out the other.

let’s try that again

in which the author tries to recap, slowly this time, the events of the previous evening. there was much socializing. also includes today’s likely agenda.

in a fog of not quite awake

too tired to write coherently, too awake to go to sleep. break bread with brad was very cool, if very noisy.? met Ralph (hi!), plus a bunch of people I didn’t know at all before today.? also met JJG and was sort of fangirl-ish.? “oh, you’re Mr. Rebecca Blood!”? (his tips for SXSW? drink lots [...]

today’s wandering

in which the author scours the stores of south Congress, meets a lovely goth proprietress, raises her seat, and plays with legos

the body: a virtuous cycle

This morning I saw a link from Rebecca Blood to this article on soda & obesity and it got me thinking. I had already pretty much decided to skip soda while I’m on this vacation. Now I’m certain. Today I feel better, physically, than I have since I stopped riding regularly back in early December. [...]

two happy words

replacement microwave.? and then i found the daily show.? I ain’t goin’ nowheres.