I’m a little late getting this in, but it *snowed* here (where “here” = “San Francisco Bay Area”) a couple of weeks ago. The link has some really cute video clips of local kids sledding down steep side streets not a mile from where we live, and of other kids amazed at the really cold [...]

How cool is the internet? Last weekend, I mentioned Patrick Roddie’s beautiful book Hips in a blog post on this, my humble personal blog (with its worldwide readership of five, maybe even six people). Then just yesterday, none other than Mr. Roddie himself pops by to leave a comment on that post. I’m not sure [...]

I’m stuck in an all-day training session in Bellevue, WA – the first of five straight days. At least I have my laptop, and a wireless connection, so I can sneak in some quick posts during the lulls. Also, they’re taking us all out for dinner at Daniel’s Broiler tonight, which is supposed to be [...]

Okay, the title is a lame (is there another kind?) Matrix reference.  But for reasons beyond my ken, I just love letterfu.  I’ve printed out a few pages, so some of you will be getting letters from me soon.  I’m off to Seattle tonight (my cab should be here in 10 minutes), and back on [...]

Today is March 4th – but apparently in Roman times this date would have been referred to as the IV Nones of March. The 15th, infamously, is the Ides. The 7th is (this was new to me) the Nones. And the 4th (this was somehow even newer to me) is the IV Nones. See – [...]