Category: bodega

I expect to do a bunch less posting in the next few weeks. I’m trying to take some time off, some time away from the computer. When I’m at the computer, I’d like to do some organizing and consolidating so I don’t feel so scattered and don’t keep maintaining umpteen blogs. In the meantime, I…

Thursday night we took a friend out for a belated birthday dinner at Jeanty at Jack’s in SF. Had a very rich, meat-filled dinner, after starting off with a martini and a sancerre (sp?). We shared three appetizers: lamb tongue with potato salad, veal marrow with frisee, and fried pork belly (um) also in a…

January 7, 2002 Send new XXX proposal to YYY at ZZZ March 10, 2002 Evaluate DW beta Laundry March 12, 2002 Update outline/assignments Make NY reservations Prepare AAA’s 50% check (c/o BBB) Send other agents client list March 13, 2002 Call P re “big news” JIFSR paperwork March 16, 2002 Send check to Lawrenceville for…

Really, really, really this time. I mean, it never ends: planning the website, trying to think of promotional ideas, etc., but everything’s in. The deadlines are over. I can crash now, in a big way.

Slicing your hand with the bread knife? or Dropping the bagel into the bowl of soapy water in the sink?

Revving the engine of one of their front-lawn parked cars, shouting at each other. The women in this family (is it?) are always louder than their men. Oh the man is yelling too. I don’t speak the language, but her voice is piercing. Then there are the thumps, at times the children, toddlers and babies,…

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…

Isn’t “meatus” Latin for dickhead?

The borrowed Dell I’ve been using for testing and capturing screenshots of Dreamweaver MX in Windows XP started shrieking just now, an unghodly sound that set my chimpan-primate innards and teeth on edge. Here’s what I just IM’d the notebook’s owner: very bizarre! your dell just started whistling a loud, shrill, squeaky, feedback kind of…

I know I’m not “Blue Blood Estates,” the most common PRIZM cluster in my zipcode, and not really “Money & Brains” neither. “Mid-City Mix,” the fifth most common. Guess I need to read the descriptions. All this and more (I haven’t tried to MicroVision analysis, another demographic breakdown by segments yet) at You Are Where…

Finished up the endpapers (chapter summary for the inside front cover, keyboard shortcuts for the inside back cover) last night and submitted it, thus qualifying at last for my 100% milestone advance payment. The only remaining puzzle piece (besides reviewing proofs, etc.), is now the contents and permissions for the CD-ROM being stuck in the…

from MZ: For those who find four words to be too few. 75 or Less Brevity can be a blessing. Eschewing long-winded album analysis, the music critics of this site wrap up their reviews in 75 words or less. Faithful to the site’s motto, “Get to the point and get it done,” the album reviews…

Bada bing, bada bong, the don is dead Which old don? The teflon don Bada bing, bada bong, the teflon don is dead

Mickey Kaus says, “You know the blogging trend must be almost over when Time Magazine has a blog.” Oh no, I just linked to Microsoft!

bodhisattva take yourself by the hand

Spent all day re-revising the color insert and finally just sent it in. I’m starved! That’s what I get for blogging away the morning hours. Now I just need to finish the endpapers (they’re good to go, but need screen shot refs for the chapter summaries on the inside front cover, and some table formatting…