I head back home tonight. There’s a movie titled, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles with Steve Martin as a man wanting to spend Thanksgiving with his family. Though I hope my trip does not emulate his, I can easily borrow the title for mine: I catch the train from Sandpoint, Idaho to Spokane tonight at 11:49pm. According to […]
Month: November 2005
Mundane
am eating an apple. I am eating a red apple. I am eating a red Fuji apple. I am eating a juicy sweet, red and green Fuji apple. I am eating a juicy, barely blushed Fuji apple, which leaves a tart-sweet taste across my tongue. I am eating the apple, and the taste takes me […]
Beauty is only geek deep
Misbehaving pointed to a new Geek Calendar featuring 12 young, attractive female tech workers in typical calendar poses. According to the “About the Producer” page (the producer being one of the models): Lilac Mohr, who herself is a Senior Java Developer, is the producer of the Geek Gorgeous Calendar. Sick of hearing complaints from male co-workers about the lack […]
Disparity
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Jason Kottke wrote of his trip to China: When I first conceived of doing kottke.org on a full-time basis, one of the things I wanted to do was to go to Asia and document the experience for the site. Several micropatrons asked me to use their contributions to, quote, “get out […]
I am eating an apple. I am eating a red apple. I am eating a red Fuji apple. I am eating a juicy sweet, red and green Fuji apple. I am eating a juicy, barely blushed Fuji apple, which leaves a tart-sweet taste across my tongue. I am eating the apple, and the taste takes […]
