September 2005

I’m sorry. I do not have plans to see either Serenity nor Mirrormask this weekend. My deep abiding hatred for people in crowds just way outweighs my need to be geeky. I am officially on vacation next week but could not get organized enough to actually go anywhere, so perhaps I will take in matinee.

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style resistance

September 30, 2005

in Meta

Ye gods, Movable Type’s 3.2 style sheets are complicated. I’ve spent the last couple of days restyling my blog as part of a giant combo workover of everything that may eventually see the light of day — yes, I do have a development machine now, so I am not continually messing up the live blog. [...]

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overheard

September 28, 2005

in Personal, Stories

I was in South Park on monday (the neighborhood in SF, not the cartoon), on my way to my hairdresser’s. And a nice young well dressed couple were walking along the sidewalk toward me. Her: pale, blonde, impeccably dressed, really nice shoes. Him: black, stunningly handsome. Young urban lawyers or marketing or bizdev, moving up [...]

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real giant squid pics!

September 28, 2005

in Cephalopods, Links

I did see the headlines for the giant squid pics going by in my newsreader yesterday, but I numbly thought yeah yeah, giant squid, blah blah. Giant squid have been washing up on beaches for years now. Everyone knows the cool thing to watch out for these days is the colossal squid. Giant squid are [...]

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beyond dude!

September 27, 2005

in Personal, Tech

My ISP has been tuning the antennas this afternoon, and things have been… kind of zippy. I ran a speed test and just had to put up this screen shot. How fast is my broadband? It is beyond dude fast. (this was, alas, short-lived. They finished tuning the antennas and things dropped back down to [...]

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