Category: Life

Yesterday was a day of very mixed feelings about Apple. I had problems with the OS X 10.5 Leopard upgrade on both machines, but the ultimate result on my Mac Book Pro seems decent. On my MBP, this happened. There was a good 45 minutes of extreme panic on my end as I had neglected [...]

I suppose it’s a good sign that I was so busy on Day 1 at new company that I didn’t have time to blog. Actually, it’s going great–I’m pretty thrilled. I’ll be telling you more as it seems time to tell, but here’s your first nugget (for those of you who don’t already know): We’re [...]

I just bought Underworld’s new album, Oblivion with Bells, from iTunes, mostly on the strength of the song “Beautiful Burnout,” which I heard on the radio and was like all hells yes. Careful, though, Oblivion is unapologetically dance-centric with just a hit of dark industrial yearnings. All the better for me, but less ponderous and [...]

Sitting here after work, having made vegetarian chili for the members of my book club, who should be arriving in an hour or so. Tired; not feeling particularly great. This has been a struggle week, with my status as “sickest healthy person ever” re-confirmed. I’m stressed out about this; I’m having a medical issue that [...]

1530GMT: David got me truffle-infused salt for my birthday. Start my working-at-home day off right with a truffle-salted soft-boiled egg. 1030GMT: Receive my copy of Photoshop CS3 and Lightroom, both of which I got for abnormally low prices. Squealing and unwrapping of Fed-Ex box. 2100GMT: Truffle-salting my grilled cheese sandwich. Truffle-salting my cream of tomato [...]

Kes and Aileen are in Europe for a few weeks and have just arrived in Toulouse, where they’ll be staying all week. Unfortunately their room is a bit gross (Aileen says she wishes she had flip-flops for the bathroom), and the air intake is sucking in foul, smoky, stale air. So Kes has rigged up [...]

Today I embark upon my thirties. I do this with requisite ambivalence. I had a marvelous weekend due to Mr. Pencil’s scheming. On Saturday, Dad visited and we all went and had a memorable lunchtime meal at Fenouil, which is a story for another time or post. In the evening, David told me to dress [...]

My life would extra-special if the interface from Cork’d would be overlaid on the incredible amount of data at Cellar Tracker. My god, Cellar Tracker is an ugly brute. I think it may have been designed by someone who is brilliant but blind. Cork’d I first saw a year or two ago and it doesn’t [...]

After work last night, Brett and I went and picked up Wes (who took a while coming down from his apartment to the car because “the bird was somewhere it really wasn’t supposed to be and I wasn’t wearing socks”) and then went to Thatch, a very convincing Tiki bar over on NE Broadway and [...]

“I was craving bone marrow one day, and I scoured the whole of Paris searching for the leg of a cow. When I finally found what I was looking for, I cut it in half, digging out the yellowish substance, slathering it all over bread.” –Milla Jovovich, who is awesome in the Fifth Element but [...]