Tag: metaxian

  • Birth month

    Birth month

    I was out at dinner with B the other night, celebrating my birthday, and I mentioned how I wasn’t following my old tradition of posting a note about the birthday of my blog (because I started breathing room on my 33rd birthday and briefly considered calling it “Outliving Christ”) because, as with so many things…

  • Farewell to my gmail address

    Gmail is dead. Long live google apps for my domain mail.

  • Ukulele for Geeks, live in Tokyo

    (A few snaps of my talk from the Tokyo 2.0 PechaKucha night the other evening.)

  • Happy blog day to me

    Boy was I smart to start my first real blog on my birthday (in ’97). It sure helps keep things straight around here. Somehow along the way I turned 45. What. The. Fuck? Now, in honor of the kind of manic blogging I used to do before the twitter and the employment, I will actually…

  • Smile! You're on candid skitch

    Not a manga or mad man among them.

  • Briefest annual birthday blogging yet

    Started blogging on birfday in 1997 (called it “doing an online journal then”). 11 years later I’m still (sorta) at it. Happy birthday to us!

  • I'm retiring the links for today thingy

    I’m trying to do more “real” blogging here these days and I feel like my Delicious links just drown everything else out. (Also a twitter follower mentioned being interested in people’s blog posts but not their bookmarks – I am now having my blog posts send notices to twitter – and that kinda made sense…

  • word concept of the moment

    “eternity” also “forever” seen in IM status, and in the sentence i am reading right now in a story just as it is sung on the randomly selected song from my jukebox.

  • Burning Laundry

    Saturday I paid the bills, and sent a contributor (at long last) his signed copy of my last book. Monday I made an appointment for the car’s 57-month checkup and updated the contributors to my new book about the cancellation of the contract by the publisher. Tuesday I got groceries, talked to an editor about…

  • Catsup

    I’m doing myself a disservice, in this exercise, but not logging what I’m getting done daily. The whole idea is to counter the negative-sum to-do list view of life and actually log accomplishments. If they don’t measure up to the time spent, so be it, but let it be a record at least of some…

  • Small errands, loosely joined

    Finally sent a signed copy of Dreamweaver Savvy to Guy Rish, who wrote the ColdFusion chapter. He only had to ask me like ten times! Did basically nothing else today except mess around. Oh, wait. I did shovel the ruined jack o’lantern into the compost (photos to follow) and took a bunch of shots of…

  • Oven burner element replaced

    With Thanksgiving approaching, the bottom burner element in our twenty-year-old oven gave out. It took us a while to diagnose the problem. The symptoms were the oven taking much longer to come up to full heat, except when in broil mode (top burner only), and then the way my last banana bread baked, burning at…

  • Burning laundry

    I need a place for a very simple log of things accomplished. Like a to-do list, but as things are done, not a plan for future things, which is elsewhere. Like my occasional “burning to-do’s” posts to my old bodega blog, except in real time instead of catching up now and again.