Life

Everyone has their version of 'running away to sea'.  Mine involves getting into the family car and going to Las Vegas or Reno, NV to shark the low-limit tournaments against the tourists for a living.  (Not a very good living, I'd like to point out) My friend Derick's 'run away to sea' fantasy has always…

I picked up this external battery sled for the iPhone at the mall.  I’m charging it now, and will time it to see how long it truly lasts.  I built a worm farm with Moishe this weekend for the boy who must have every animal.  I put up a flickr set explaining how to do…

Because I can wear shorts every day, walk to work, wander over to a Pakistani place for lunch and drink bottomless cups of chai, and still serve my clients through the web and telephone.

So very soon I get a new, hopefully permanent office. I currently work either at home, where I have poor output because I refuse to be dismissive of my son when he comes into my office, or at Starbucks where you can’t hear me on the phone because of their music, or downtown in an…

Last Saturday was one of those litmus days for what kind of person you are. I woke up with Moishe and took him to the Chinese bakery for dim sum for breakfast and some gear from the hardware store for some home improvement projects.  Then we came home and Sarah woke up, cobbled together something…

Now that the US and China have shown that they’re capable of taking out each other’s satellites, planners in the Pentagon and Dept. of Commerce are going to start counting how many satellites they need in orbit to function as backup in case another foreign power tries to take a few out.  For redundancy, they’ll…

Mimi: Hey, you are becoming famous! Me: No, I’m Internet-famous, it’s a lower standard. Andy Warhol said, "In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." Shabbir says "Everyone you know is internet-famous, you just haven’t noticed."

Is it worth pointing out that Sarah took this test and discovered she was Ernie?  No, the thing has too few choices for that to be something worth noticing as interesting.  It’s bound to happen all the time. By the way, Sarah would like to point out that "a little evil" is a very accurate…

Christian has an excellent post on why the Amtrak is so much better than the plane along the easter seaboard.  There’s rail service to Sacramento, where I go every Thursday, but sadly the station is not particularly convenient to San Franciscans.  I’ll try it one of these days just to say I did, but making…

<dream>A disembodied voice booms, "CONAN!  WHAT IS BEST IN LIFE?"  <cut> I’m walking to a minivan with my biological father. Me: "Dad, do you know what’s most important?" Dad: "I have plenty of money, a beautiful house and everyone loves me" he said emphatically. Me: "Dad, but what’s most important?" Dad: "I have a beautiful…