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 [...]
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This is a tennis store, right?
11May07Camille and I went to Ray’s Tennis today to buy tennis skirts. We’re going to play tennis with Kensy and Katie after dinner coop on Thursday and we wanted to look the part. Camille found a sweet classic pleated skirt that she liked. I tried on a bunch of skirts, trying to [...]
Friendship stories
02May07Budding best friends ride the bus home. They both know they want to hang out without having to ask. He goes to the laundromat with her and sits on the counter while she separates whites from colors. They talk about everything and nothing.
A boy meets another boy at a reception. They [...]
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This is version 0.2 of ForkCode, the web-based IDE that I’m working on. IDE is an acronym that means “software for making software”.
There are a bunch of fun geeky [...]
Issues in 19th Century Music
05Dec06In the 19th century, many people were poor and lived in cold places. Their gloves had holes in the fingers from wear and tear, and, let’s face it, who can afford new gloves when you are a poor thatcher working 10 hours a day thatching roofs and falling off and breaking your legs and [...]
Twins
19Nov06I am walking home from Chipotle tonight, belly distended and rather happy. As I dart around the bus stop on 5th and University, a muscular bald man who looks like he may have just been released from prison yells something unintelligible in my direction while crossing the street towards me.
I glance back and assume [...]
Oh Missy
10Oct06For the dance fans, here’s another dance video I recorded with Kate over the summer:
Click here to watch
Wet Whistle
05Sep06I’m sitting in a hotel in Missoula, Montana (the most beautiful state in the union). I’ve had a hugely eventful summer, I’m still hacking away at my summer of code project, and dreaming up lots of exciting projects to start on after I get to San Diego. But I don’t really have the [...]
Letter to self
30Apr06I found this letter when I got in to the office today. I wrote it late last night after reading about the end-user programming workshop at CHI, which I had no idea about. I didn’t have any work to present in the fall, so I didn’t even think to look at the requests [...]
Exchange
22Apr06I signed up for a Sears credit card in order to get the discount. The cashier says to me,
“You get a $15 credit, so your undies were free today.”
Undies? Please, boxer briefs.
