Category: bodega

still shepherding files and permissions, took a scolding from one of my contributors for dropping the ball on securing the permissions for her section. fought back, apologized, got burnt. soonly i will be done. i can taste it, but it never seems to get any easier, and each microthin final subsubstep expands to fill all…

Today was supposed to be it. The CD contents are due. I’ve got them all here, all over my computer. Just need to update that checklist, upload the files, find the ones we already submitted that disappeared at the publisher’s side. So close, so close. Scheduled Wednesday as my first completely day off in years.…

Here’s a tip about changing the batteries in your palm… (File under PalmJockey. Need categorization of all blog posts and then filtering at the presentation end. x-pollen concept I’ve used when crossposting between mail lists such as antiweb, ntap, design-l, etc.—just stopped myself from reading an entire book proposal that just came in in the…

Saw today: “If everyone was blind, nobody would know who to hate.” Putting aside whatever policy this rhetoric might be used to support, wouldn’t we still be able to hate people whose smells offended us? Think about it. I sometimes hate people just because they’re noisy. I’m afraid apparent race or even ‘looksism’ is only…

Manageable responsibilities, interesting challenges, wolf safely a few miles from door, rare chance to slow down and see how everything feels, what else—really—could I ask for?

Just reviewed the page proofs for the remaining 10 or so chapters of my book. It looks like it’s coming in “short,” under 700 page, but I may be miscounting. Found remarkably few errors: a misplaced callout here, a minor typo that eluded everyone throughout the editorial process there. It’s starting to look like a…