Category: Life

I’m going to gnomedex in Seattle, a conference on blogging. I think I’m supposed to have a blog. But I don’t count this one or the other ones I have kept and discarded over the years. Which made me think: why not blog as disposable medium: lyza-gnomedex-2005.blogspot.com: Your guide to Lyza at gnomedex for a [...]

I thought this was kind of a kick. A local kid solicited Linus Torvalds for an interview (he lives around here) and was successful where lots of other media weren’t. The results at Riverdale High School’s site. I’d like to mention, however, that Riverdale district, albeit nominally public, is in an extremely privileged part of [...]

2005-06-15-steens_night_camp_v2 Originally uploaded by lyzadanger. Come see some rather meek little photos I posted of the Steens Mountain trip I took, mad-cap, last weekend. Don’t expect too much.

I should have done this social experiment long ago. If you know me, you know I hate video games, but I love Warcraft. And yet though I consider myself of relative intelligence, I still maintain a poorly-veiled condescension for the players around me in the world, the world of warcraft, that is. Until I started [...]

I’m listening to Blink 182 because it sounds like early-summer music, but the sky above the full-green trees is black. I want it to be summer so much. It’s raining; I’m driving with the window down. I want it to be summer so badly. I watch it stay light late and curse it for scorning [...]

I had just parked downtown late yesterday afternoon. I was going printing, and was sorting through boxes of paper in the hatchback of the Audi. I paid for parking in one of the world’s most awful parking meters that we have here. A ritual of feeding in my debit card—it doesn’t take bills—pushing the wrong [...]

2005-06-05-miura Originally uploaded by lyzadanger. This is geometrically appealing. Come look.

Don’t watch me, watch him.

I think because I’m going to such ridiculous lengths to make my own wedding invitations and stationery that I should record my process for posterity. See last post, but I should be bringing my camera with me to the printing shop so I can capture images of what I’m doing. I never learn. I started [...]

There’s a lesson I never learn. The answer to “should I bring my camera with me?” is always, always “yes.” Ignoring this tenet was frustrating last night, when this happened. Obviously I didn’t take that photograph, because I was busy standing on a street corner in the Pearl District hating myself for not bringing my [...]