Category: bodega

Finished that dang chapter 30 last night just after midnight. I’d write a section, then site with B on the couch and sip champagne and watch a little bit of Trollope’s “How We Live Now” with David Suchet as un-Hercule Poirotesque as could be, the dash back into my office and tap out the next…

Lots of bad news today. Personal, life-or-death, bad juju kind of bad news. Not to me personally or my immediates, but still not good. I feel so jangly. Every where I turn there is a tree falling across a road. Pushed the closet door closed, it wouldn’t close. Towel hanging on the doorknob caught in…

Don’t know what I did but suddenly happy mac was question-mark-the-diskette-ian and i don’t seem to have a “startup cd” for this system. i used the os x install cd which forced a new installation (possibly a step down from an update i dimly recall installing?). but it worked, here i am, back again, furiously…

Filed b’s fed and state taxes electronically tonight. It will be nice to get that refund direct-deposited. Still need to work out my more complicated finances (I’m waaay late in sending out my 1099-MISC’s, put it that way!). Still, it feels good to accomplish something. Decided to stop waiting and downloaded movabletype to my Mac.…

Spent four hours yesterday in a car to and from Sacramento (not too hot till late) with good company, though, my agent. We were there to give a talk called “Writing the Successful Book Proposal” – I’ll make the powerpoint file available if there’s any interest. We had only 50 minutes so we had to…

As a fan of divination and a nonfundamentalist skeptic, I enjoy and am creeped out by some of the most timeworn parlor tricks. Here’s what the Kalabarians have to say about some of the names I’ve answered to: Christian Your name of Christian gives you the ability to be creative along practical lines of endeavour.…

Heard several times yesterday about the genome of rice (or at least the 20/80 part of it) being published by two different entities. I like this idea of open-source genetics. It’s funny how science (I like the German word, which I will attempt to spell: Wissenschaft — I take it as a cognate for knowing-shape…

bust a gut: http://www.randomdudes.com/bush/bush.html

Just as soon as I finish writing the part-opener text for Part 2 of my book, it’s time to head to the Berkeley Bowl for my weekly shopping trip: baguette blueberry scones pugliese pretzels white wine (Vinum red w/dog, No Way Cuvee, Zabaco Zin, Tulocay Zin) stack of cases btw. wine & cheese, decent red…

Guess I should pass this along: Subject: FW: WARNING: CHANGE YOUR YAHOO MKTG PREFERENCES I’m told the following (yet another reason LSoft rox).

JCPenney Catalog Fall/Winter 1980 Remember 1980? Odd color palettes and synthetic fabrics were allthe rage, and these questionable fashions could be found shimmeringon the pages of the JCPenney catalog. This site provides scans ofnumerous pages from the two-decade-old Penney’s Fall/Wintercollection. Check out a real hoot of an owl-themed bathroom, adisturbing bearded skier, comfortable bowling shoes…

good advice, to visit allthingsmustpass.com. ..although there does get to be a slight Zombocom-ish monotony to the loop after a while.

I find it hard to believe that OmniWeb would have trouble interpreting named links, but it seems to have that problem with my hypertext story No Bird but an Invisible Thing. Perhaps there is some unrelated strict validation problem? Otherwise, geez, that’s worse than just not doing javascript!

That whirlpool of land and water, central in maritime and land-empire epochs and somehow, through momentum or inertia or the very pattern of events, still central in this time of air superiority and tactical use of space, that ampersand of land and sea where asia minor fails to overlap the balkans, where the black sea…

b and i finally have a y!m version of the ol’ cups attached by string for chit-chat and love doggerel during the day. she just sent out an s.o.s. and i’m heading downtown to pick her up from work, leaving the dishes unfinished.

Been noticing some good April Fool’s sites today, including the normally about Grateful Dead bass player Phil Lesh Philzone site and the secret technology behind Google’s amazing accuracy.

OK, I just heard “flustrated” on the radio yesterday. The speaker was from Fresno. An painting teacher I used to have during my brief art school period used that terms as well. I guess it blends flustered and frustrated? Meanwhile, I’m finding spamradio to be oddly soothing.

I noticed, without it registering, the neighbors’ garbage cans down on the curb this morning as I drove B downtown to her job. Lately we’ve been walking part of the way to her work together. We walk through our neighborhood angling down to Park Boulevard and then to her bus stop, where I turn around…

On shacker’s recommendation (a while back) I finally today ordered Jay Greenspan’s book on Database-backed web applications using PHP and MySQL. Along with a book another book on PHP applications (this one by David Medinets) and the entire online community devoted to sharing info, I think I have the equipment I need to get the…

Went out onto Goodyear Slough in Suisun (so-soon) Bay over the weekend, canoeing with B in Save the Bay‘s “Canoes and Sloughs” weekend program. Man, it was a glorious day! Threatening to rain, yes, but the clouds were billowy and fat, the wind gave us something to struggle against, and the color of the sky,…

…the back of his g4 powerbook stayed screwed on tight, for the want of an opening, the airport card stayed uninstalled, for the want of an airport card, the plan of sitting on the couch while answering e-mail and idly browsing the web was postponed.