Category: long story short

  • Nevelson revisited

    After I posted about that Louise Nevelson exhibit at the de Young museum and seeing the model for the sculpture near my parents’ apartment at 92nd and Park Ave in New York, my sister scanned and emailed me a photo of the four of us siblings posing in front of the sculpture, circa 1974. (The…

  • Finding my bliss

    A week or so ago I posted a semi-whimsical question on Facebook: > Has anybody seen my bliss? I was following it but I think I fell too far behind. (Hat tip to Joseph Campbell, pictured here, who seems to have coined the phrase “follow your bliss.”) My friend Aldon Hynes wrote an interesting post,…

  • Things to done

    Saturday * Get salad greens and heirloom tomatoes at the farmer’s market at Splash Pad park * Work out with B at the gym * Drop off shirts at the cleaner * Start laundry * Make pizza and salad * Fix problem with misdirected payments to writer client * See Michael Clayton * Have a…

  • The limits of multitasking

    I was running a search on a labeled group of messages (from a mailing list) in my mailbox, looking for just the unread ones, but I was also doing something else at the same time (actually two or three other things, drinking coffee, firing up a YouTube video, looking for a file on my desktop)…

  • Unescaped entities on the loose

    So, I’m back from the Dead Symposium at UMass (I’ll post my slides soon), and Thanksgiving has come and gone, and I’m at the office now wrestling with my new MacBook Pro, trying to get everything possible onto it from my old G4 without breaking any of the new stuff. I think I’m almost there…

  • National sick-as-a-dog month

    A friend asked me via twitter if I was doing National Blog Post Month as well as National Novel Writing Month, because apparently I had up to that point posted every day in November, but in fact I was not doing the former and am no longer doing the latter. In fact I’ve been trying…