Archive for February 2007
Buying a new camera
Recently my brother in law asked me an important question: Need some advice – we are planning to buy some electronic equipment with the baby – a new picture camera and video (dvd) recorder. We were wondering if you had any recommendations. Sameena heard that any of the SLR cameras are good because they don’t…
Read More“never been governed by any power”
From the Washington Post: The new director of national intelligence said yesterday that the United States is "very concerned" that Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaeda leadership are attempting to rebuild their terrorist network and establish training camps in a region of northwest Pakistan "that has never been governed by any power." This is a…
Read MoreEfficiency tip #468: Make a ‘todo’ bookmark category to keep URL-only e-mails out of your e-mail box.
One of the efficiency tips I’ve learned over the years is that you need to keep a tidy inbox. One of the enemies of a tidy inbox is e-mails containing things you need to check out. Because e-mail is like a network-centric data store, I’ve often get a note from someone that says, "Hey, check…
Read MoreYou want dark? I’ll give you fucking dark.
My precious server, a machine I built by hand, did not survive the move. It had everything on it, my Quicken with the family’s entire finances, all my unprocessed photos from Pakistan, our MP3 collection, and my entire online poker history, every hand. I’m not a hardware guy, so the fact that I built this…
Read Morethe view from my office
oh yes, the grandeur of the mountains in san jose…
Read MoreYes, this contains a family of three
Believe it or not, there’s a family of three that can live out of that collection of suitcases. I didn’t think it was possible, but when we came out to San Jose this is all we brought. Of course it fell apart immediately, as we started buying things we needed, like baby bottle cleaning brushes…
Read MoreA confession.
It’s time I unloaded a secret I’ve been keeping to myself for months. It’s been tearing at me, knowing the truth about myself but unable to tell anyone. Little by little, I realized what I was becoming, and slowly, I confessed the truth to select people. I started with my small group of friends and family, then one by one, I took my coworkers aside and told them.
It wasn’t easy, and I was prepared for some negative reactions, but I never got a single one. Every one of you that I’ve told so far has been extremely understanding and generous. My confession is that…
Read MoreWasting my time in the waiting line
You know, I know you heard that the Chili Peppers won a Grammy and if you didn’t have it already, went out and bought their new album, Stadium Arcadium. But let me tell you, you’re missing a couple of other albums that I’ve screened for you that are worth your time. One is the Dixie…
Read MoreThe only game in town
You probably remember me talking about The Big Game a while back. A several night a week game in a private apartment that raked the pot and supplied dealers. The Big Game was extremely high class, with dealers who were all hot, occasionally wore corsets, and included at least one off duty stripper. In the…
Read MoreDMZ #2: Body Of A Journalist
And by now you’ve noticed that the second trade paperback about a modern day civil war in the US is out. The series, called "DMZ", is about a reporter’s assistant who gets stuck in Manhattan, which has become a modern-day demilitarized zone when a red state militia and the US Army fight to a standstill…
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