Category: long story short
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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)…
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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…
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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…
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In my day we had to write our web-blogs by hand in html 1.0, barefoot in the snow, uphill all the way, against the wind
I’ve discovered that it’s easy to remember the anniversary of your first blog post* if you’re as clever or random as I was and wrote it on your birthday. This then reminds me to crank out my yearly age-revealing, I’ve-been-blogging-since post. And this is a special one, too, for what it’s worth. Ten years of…
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Back from Oaxaca
Posting over low bandwidth. Consider this photo a down payment toward a great deal more imagery and tales to come. This is one of the many artworks, most with religious themes, decorating the hotel I stayed in my first night in Oaxaca, the Hostal de la Noria. UPDATE: (or del, I have to doublecheck that)…
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Going off the grid
Very late Tuesday night – in fact so late that it will really be very early Wednesday morning – I’m heading down to Oakland airport to hop on a Mexicana plane and fly to Guadalajara and then Mexico City and finally to Oaxaca. Yes, it’s the OAK to OAX run. Once there I will spend…
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Stanking up the gym
Got to work, checked some email, decided to stop dallying and head to the gym for 50 minutes on the stationary bike. Suddenly realized I’d forgotten to bring a change of gym clothes to work today, like I usually do.
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Brown bag accomplished
There is a cycle I go through in preparing for a public speaking gig. The UED (user experience design) brown bag series at Yahoo! is low key in a way. We do it in a medium-sized room with hookups to remote campuses, such as Santa Monica. It’s “all in the family” and thus not as…
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Happy Birthday, Peter!
Happy Birthday, Peter! Originally uploaded by xian. One of the highlights of last week’s trip to New York was when Peter, Sara, and the boys drove down from New Haven on Saturday. Pictured here from left to right are Caleb, Peter, and Sam. Later, I’ll post more pictures to Flickr. This one was taken on…
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On the internet, nobody knows you're fat
I’m no fan of the term “fatblogging” but I do see some value in the idea of inviting accountability by applying the blog (in the sense of public log) format to a health and fitness plan, and reporting one’s weight to a globe full of strangers is surely one way to keep yourself honest. Those…
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Strategery at the New School?
So I’m standing outside of the Parsons , where we were putting on the IDEA 2007 conference this past week when two guys in suits with their arms literally around each other’s shoulders, laughing and schmoozing like the bunch of dyed-in-the-wool politicians I realize they are….
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New York, just like I pictured it
IMG_0055.jpg Originally uploaded by xian. OK, I’ve used that title before. Just wanted to put up a few photos: An amusing sign in a cab, the Oyster Bar (a favorite of B and mine), and this shot of the Empire State building lit up at night we ran across headed back to our hotel on…
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Jump for Joy
I believe this song, “Jump for Joy,” is extremely obscure, and that’s amazing. I only happened to hear it, barely listening to an old a Sarah Vaughn record. I stopped short, “Did she just say that?” It’s a blithe and satirical “protest song” Duke Ellington wrote in 1941 for an all-black musical review of the…
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Ding dong
B and I are getting married today at 3 o’clock. Wish us luck!
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Seaside Jazz Fest 2007
Seaside Jazz Fest 2007 Originally uploaded by andytnisbet. B’s brother Andy took this really nice picture of my sweetie and me. We spent Sunday down in Seaside (right next door to Monterey). Good food, great people, fantastic music (with a rotating cast of players), not too many speeches, birthday wishes to B’s sister Peg, anniversary…
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links for 2007-05-26
Peter Viney on “The Weight” exegesis of the lyrics of the weight, or at least one man’s take on them, synthesizing much rumor and innuendo (tags: music reference lyrics rock theband history) bent spoon — cultural opinion e-zine and blog showing art and literature creative blogsite by friend (tags: art blog culture literature) Information Architecture…
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Fraidy is a lolcat now