Category: Life

* On Saturday I had a sparkling riesling that Kes had been nice enough to grab for me on his way back from India via Frankfurt. It is the first sparkling Riesling I’ve ever had. * Over the weekend, Portland non-profits FreeGeek and my own beloved IPRC (place where I’ve done letterpress printing) were ripped [...]

Intel has designed a remote control for “women.” At times like this it’s hard to feel bad about the tech giant’s recent woes. Come on, Intel. Seriously. Fuck a duck.

I just received a junk mail with some very amusing logic: No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. Fear God and you need not fear anyone else. Love it. Also good: got a junk mail this morning with the subject line “Kidnapper pasteurized.” You know, so you don’t get botulism [...]

Good news for me–the first person to come see our house offered full asking price. Woo! This week has been a flurry of faxing and forms. Multiple real estate transactions eat up a lot of paper. As things become more concrete with the future plans, I’ll keep y’alls posted.

Hey, so, I’ve been so very busy this week. We’re selling our house. I don’t want to elaborate too much further (and jinx the goings-on), but here’s the flyer for our house if you know anyone who’s looking for a kickass crib in No. Portland. It may be one of the last houses in the [...]

I finished this novel and now I feel a little funny. The first half of it nailed a setting so well that I had a crystal image of its eastern-European castle, its dark but sweet characters entangled in some rather innocuous occult and supernatural goings-on. But then Egan forces a second, disconnected story arc into [...]

Woolf is a tough read. I found myself bouncing between opinions in polars much like the user reviews on Amazon.com, one which reads: Please, let’s put a stop once and for all to this farce that Virginia Woolfe is a good author. She’s awful. Just terrible. Can any one of you honestly say you enjoy [...]

If you’re into the rap music, listen to this guy. His Jay-Z is pretty top-notch, but that Snoop Dogg…damn.

I woke up about 20 minutes later than I normally do, in that twenty-minutes-late panic that makes one very awake, very immediately. A contrast to my normal slow wind-up into the day. Simon, the cat, was sitting upright on a dining room chair waiting impatiently for me. Of course when I gave him attention he [...]

(errr, that’s Nancy Pelosi by the way)