Janie? Josie? Katie? Karen? I can’t for the life of me remember her name. It was this interchange that did it:
her: “We have to name the bike.”
(referring to the two seater bike we were rescuing from a party for a ride around the neighborhood.)
me: “OK, yeah.”
her: “My name is Daffodil.”
I thought she was [...]
Archive for June, 2007
This is the end
21Jun07Dear Rice and Beans,
I don’t know how to say this any other way, so… I’m leaving you.
In the garbage.
I know it’s cliche, but: It’s not you. It’s me. I wish things were different. I love your veganness, and that you came from El Zarape, the best mexican restaurant in San Diego. [...]
Joss Whedon’s Equality Now speech (Video)
Sneaky spammers
18Jun07I just got a comment on a post I wrote a while back:
This is exactly what I expected to find out after reading the title Who is this thing for?. Thanks for informative article
At first I was like “aww, someone liked my post, how precious!” But the suspicion followed pretty quickly, and I started [...]
Update 4
15Jun07I’ve cleared 15 pages, but I still want to include several more sources. I’ll just have to be quick about it. I want to be done by 5:00. The apartment isn’t too hot, but I’m going to drive up to campus at 4:00 anyway because I need to get into the lab, and [...]
When Feminists Rule The World
15Jun07“New Nintendo DS game targets women with beauty tips”
will become
“New Nintendo DS game targets women with ass kicking, name taking”
Update 3
15Jun07Yawn! *stretch* type type type. Good morning gentlemen. Yes, I loved it. Chan Chan is my favorite. There’s a nice cool breeze through the apartment. Let’s get this thing finished this morning so I can get out of this place before the stifling afternoon heat sets in.
Update 2
15Jun07Something like six pages now. Slog slog slog. Grass. Trees. Mud. Bugs. Going to sleep. No sense in destroying myself.
Update
14Jun07Up to a couple pages and a paragraph now. Buena Vista Social club is serenading me on the radio Pandora. Dreaming about laying out under the stars, about long nights of coding, about making dance videos. Back to work…
Little earthquakes
14Jun07and it was like bleep bleep bleepbleepbeep, and then, like, half of my paper was gone (Video)
For some reason, life has been playing little jokes on me all week. I don’t think there could’ve been more little disasters in my presentation in Computational Modeling. First, my laptop wouldn’t project. Then my thumbdrive [...]
