May 2006

a thousand papercuts, dipped in lemon juice

May 24, 2006

This is what I wish for trackback spammers. For the first fifteen months of this blog’s existence I got no trackback spam at all. Then over the last month or so its been steadily increasing. At first it was just two or three a day. I can de-spam those by hand. For the last couple [...]

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always three o’clock in the morning

May 16, 2006

in Cephalopods, Personal

A kind of frighteningly large number of you have sent me email asking if I’m OK since I’m not blogging and when I do blog its all links and pictures and old stuff. (here I am puttering along in the blogger z-list and then you all have to go and care. darnit. sniffle) By way [...]

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coffee rantings

May 10, 2006

in Food, Personal

I don’t seem to be able to muster up the talent to tell stories these days, so instead I’ll post an old story I posted on The Well a few years back. — Apropos of earlier postings in this topic, I would like to rant. This last weekend I was up in SF visiting a [...]

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