Category: bodega

  • Quit Smoking Weblog

    Fussing around with the news aggregation features of Radio Userland, I found the ubiquitous Dave Winer’s link to serialdeviant’s blog about quitting smoking. Naturally, this put me in mind of ‘s eloquent discussion of his own quitting process over the last few months.

  • I am an Uncle

    As of yesterday, I am a bio-uncle for the first time. My brother P’s wife S gave birth to twins! I’m about to burst a button. Can’t wait till I’m in New York next to actually “meet” them. x Working on a graphic image for my Radio Free Blogistan blog at Salon. I want to…

  • Just What I Need, Another Blog

    What do you get the bloggeur who has everything? How about yet another blog. Through the Well I heard about Salon’s new collaboration with Radio Userland, and since—heck—I’ve never tried that tool up to now, I saw what the heck. So I’ve started Radio Free Blogistan as a place to talk about the blogging phenomenon…

  • Half-Baked Political Stuff

    1900-1946: global struggle between three systems: violent, extreme, corrupt socialism to the left violent, extreme, corrupt nationalism to the right liberal democracy/republic/oligarchy in the middle we teamed up with the soviets and beat the nazis, so then it was 1946-1989: global struggle between two systems free-enterprise representative command-economy dictatorship but we kind of edged to…

  • The Uninvention of the Chair

    This shall be my mission in life. Let there be lolling about on comfortable divans, chaise longues, and sofas. Mattresses and futons will do in a pinch. Damn these thrones! It’s better down on the ground.

  • Ma, WebTV's on the Phone!

    It had to happen. The dark side of “convergence,” a WebTV virus is dialing 911, wasting cops’ time responding to false alarms, according to this TechTV article.