When I was a kid I went through a phase of wearing rubber bands on my wrists. I had no particular reason for doing this, it wasn’t like a magic totem or a friendship band or a method for keeping boys away or anything. I just wore them. My mother had fits; she told me [...]
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Its a big vacation week, what with labor day coming up, and Burning Man, etc, etc. Things are quiet around here. I’m packing up for a road trip to what will likely be the anti-Burning Man: I’m driving north through Arcata and Portland to Seattle, where I’m going to hang out for a while with [...]
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Friday is cat blogging day. It is! Really! This is Elsa, my old cat. She is 14. She’s the same cat I posted about with health problems earlier, although she’s doing OK now. She looks sort of sad in this picture, although what that expression really says is “You have not given me any cheese [...]
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Eric Sink writes a really fabulous weblog about software development and the business of running a small software company. His articles are always well-written, well-through-out, well-argued. I look forward to them and I almost always send them to other people or quote them in conversations (“yes, but Eric SInk says…”). That’s rare. He runs a [...]
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Late summer is Crush in these parts. Brendan Eliason, assistant winemaker at David Coffaro Winery in Sonoma County, describes the process for creating wine from harvesting grapes to bottling. If you’ve ever taken a winery tour you’ve probably learned this stuff, but Brendan writes well so its a good read. The David Coffaro web site [...]
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