January 2004

navigating Ikea

January 23, 2004

in Links

Strangely enough, I have never actually been to an Ikea. I’m not so good with really huge stores and Ikea really frightens me. But this Ikea walkthrough is really great and very true based on what friends tell me Ikea is like. Jon Carroll, best columnist ever, also wrote a bit about Ikea in the [...]

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the hazards of googlestalking

January 23, 2004

in Links

Have you ever looked someone up in google who used to torture you in grade school just to see how they’ve turned out (in hopes that they’re a complete mess so you can gloat about it?) My friend Teri did. Hers is a cautionary tale.

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Martha, Martha, Martha

January 23, 2004

in Links, Personal

The Martha Stewart trial starts really soon now. I confess I am excessively interested in this trial, because I’m really fascinated by Martha Stewart. If the world lines up along those who adore Martha and everything she does and want to be just like her (or rather, just like the genteel uberhostess she portrays herself [...]

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sea bugs

January 20, 2004

in Personal

Its dungeness crab season out here in the West, and I’ve been thinking its time to go find a live one. You can get cooked crab pretty much at any supermarket, but the cooked ones are kind of slimy and yuck. To get the really amazing taste of an ultrafabulous dungeness crab you need to [...]

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yes yes I know

January 20, 2004

in Meta

Default MT templates suck. I have “redo blog style templates” on my todo list but I figured it was more important to actually get the blog working. I have a day job now! Gimme a break!

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