Category: long story short

What makes someone park their big-ass 4×4 across two spaces clearly marked “COMPACT” in the parking lot of my office building? Probably the same thing that would make someone write ASSWIPE on a post-it and put it under their windshield wiper facing in.

Traffic was light today on the way to San Mateo, so my commute took only about 35 minutes instead of the usual 40 to 50. First Sunday of the summer. I snapped this photo from my window with my new phone (just switched from Verizon to Cingular and will save money in the process).

Not that I can take any credit for it, but Extractable has a spanking new web site launching today with a slicker look and some updated content. Congratulations to the crew who did the redesign!

B and I can never cram a full celebration into one single day a year, so we like to celebrate birthday months, with gifts and special events appropriate at any time for a loosely defined month surrounding the birthday in question. B’s birthmonth got off to a good start this past weekend with a wonderful…

A few weeks ago when I was in New York for the PDF conference, Halley Suitt (rhymes with Sally Root) was offering to give tarot readings at the cocktail party the night before the conference. I’ve always been a fan of divination and the subconscious so I asked her to read me. Mary Hodder took…

A few excerpts from The Friday Flush at the Whiskey Bar: Talk Left notes the release (in the now standard late Friday document dump) of a Pentagon report confirming at least five different cases of Quran desecration at the Guantanamo Gulag, including kicking, stepping and pissing (supposedly by accident) on the book — but not…