Category: bodega

The laundry needs folding We’re out of coffee Have to replace the old toilet seat The garden out back is beautiful Need to make jetBlue reservations (returning 9/11) Bills to pay Book proposal to write Incredible e-mail backlog It’s too damn hot to have this Titanium furnace running Significant other thinks significantly otherwise

Just figured out why I was having trouble sometimes with check boxes on web-page forms in IE 6 in OS X on the Mac (just being specific). It turns out that if I move the mouse pointer off the checkbox too quickly the click doesn’t register. Apparently I need to have the mouse pointer on…

Anil Dash takes the piss out of mindless forwarding. An excerpt (but read it all): That forward? I got it. I’ve gotten it. I do not wish to keep receiving it. I was neither moved nor inspired. It was neither clever nor funny. I was not amazed at the stupidity of that criminal, nor disgusted,…

Check my mail. Check my referer logs. Read the Well. Read Metafilter. I don’t need to put some things on my to-do list because I do them compulsively as it is. I go out back, it’s sunny. Cat (typed </cat> comes by and does the flop. I’m enjoying the fresh air, overcast low sky, my…

Might as well pump the blog meme of the moment, BlogTree, the “blog genealogy website.” If you register, you can indicate your “parent blogs” (those that inspired you to begin blogging) and discover your child blogs (those who end up linking to you). For example, see ain’t too proud to blog’s genealogy.

Fun reading for a Monday morning: The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick. I finally saw Minority Report last week after hearing every possible spoiler and still enjoyed it for the most part. I think they managed to capture the essential plot mechanism of the original short story, for one thing. I think short stories…