Category: long story short

Twice in the past two days I’ve been mistaken for Craig Newmark. It’s kinda flattering in a way. Maybe he and I share a sense of style?

I’m jetbluin’ it to JFK later today for PDF 2 on Monday and I’m trying to figure out a few last-minute packing decisions. It looks like it will be mildly warm and rainy while I’m there, so I’ll pack my raincoat. I guess I’ll bring my leather jacket since it won’t be too hot and…

Up out of my sickbed yesterday I ran down to Lake Shore Avenue to pick up some Peet’s coffee to send to New York to arrive there before me and to grab a light-baked Arizmendi pizza for dinner. Police cars and an ambulance had the street blocked off, which made crossing easy for once. The…

It’s also 5/5/5, eh… kewl! I’ve still got a nasty headcold, makes me want to sleep a lot. The Mediajunkie server had a major crash the other day, but thankfully our fantastic sysadmin, Jeff Tiedrich managed to replace the munged drive and preserve everything we care about and transfer it all over. Now I’m in…

I’ve really been enjoying reading new stuff from Levi Asher nearly every day now that LitKicks has an subscribable feed. His piece today called Found Poetry reminds me how I always care what the text is everywhere. I don’t like web addresses that have “template.php?query=splunge” in them. I like the words to make sense, to…

Maybe I deserve to be struck down after a nearly weeklong run of bliss and fine weather in New Orleans but I find myself coughing up something nasty and feeling like napping today.