Cam said something inspiring (and rather flattering) to me the other day.  We were talking about how it’s been hard to hang out now that we’re no longer roommates and Cam said he’d adopted the strategy of always saying yes when I proposed doing something.  It was an excellent ego boost in that I appreciate that we’ve achieved that level of ( Read more... )

Life just doesn’t seem that good right now; the overall architecture is wrong.  There’s too much work and not enough friends; too much worrying and not enough self improvement.  There is definitely too much “poor me” and a great lack of community.  The bigger picture is dreary indeed.

The building blocks are there, however.  Wake up with a ( Read more... )

Please stop making me feel bad about myself.

I'm not a loser, by any stretch, but you make me feel like one when you keep being better than everyone else.  I know you're not trying to make me feel like a useless sack of meat, but you do.  First, you are the most useful part of my day, from reader to gmail to googcal, and now you're going to save the ( Read more... )

The 5 AM commute crowd is hardcore. At an hour much better suited for sleeping, these individuals are piloting cars, trucks and white service vans at ludicrous speed. We’re all slaves to the punch card, but if you really want to see what a cog in the machinations of industry looks like then you ought to hop on 580 some weekday before the sun comes ( Read more... )

With no warning, I was overtook with a desire to go back to the Hamptons. Nostalgia, a feeling I'm neither familiar nor comfortable with, forced me to find the beach from my memory on google maps.  It's here, Shinnecock County Park West.  In my mind the weather is perfect and the colors are more vibrent than words do justice.  There are only a few ( Read more... )

Holy hell, Google has done me in. I’m finished. I’ve been shook loose the productive coil. Google Reader is the name of my demise.

If you don’t use it, start. If you do, well good.

It may be time to crawl back inside and hunker down.  The outside world is becoming too cumbersome and the internal too hostile.  I'm going to write up a cease fire and go North.

In conversation with one of the principles, he mentioned his “ex-wife.” He’s told me stories about her before, but she was Bonnie or “my wife.” Now he was retelling some stories I’d heard before to a client saying “ex-wife.” He looked enthusiastic about the story but there was some hesitation in his voice, as though he had a flash of insight ( Read more... )

http://menwholooklikeoldlesbians.blogspot.com/

Wow.  Just wow.

Hello Bay Areans,

I was reminded today that over 50% of Bay Area CO2 emissions come from ground travel, cars, trucks, buses, etc.  Residential use of natural gas is next in line, accounting for something near 12%.  Residential electricity use tips the scales at 5% (numbers from the Association of Bay Area Governments).

Simply put, please do something ( Read more... )