Ah. 2010 ( Read more... )

It is New Year's Eve and I'm hanging out at home, listening to Matokie on KALX, drinking wine, and making polenta in anticipation of having the Stones over for brunch tomorrow. I'm not up for going out tonight what with being pretty exhausted and feeling a bit pouty ( Read more... )

From a book review in Salon about the book The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of 'Proper' English, from Shakespeare to South Park:

To protests that the language police are only protecting the accuracy, precision and clarity of our tongue, Lynch lifts a skeptical eyebrow. Many of the most roundly deplored "debasements" of English are ( Read more... )

I just looked at a satellite photo of Iran on Yahoo News. It was a thumbnail and at that size it really looked like a chest x-ray with some kind of cell phone stuck in a lung.

Now all I can think about is that episode of Arrested Development where they think they have satellite photos of buildings in Iraq but it turns out to just be a really, ( Read more... )

My bike got stolen tonight. This would be the same bike whose back tire got stolen about a month ago. I parked it outside of 19th Street Bart in Oakland this afternoon at around 4:45. When I got back at around 10, it was gone. There's no evidence that I even left my bike there except that the plastic bag I was using to cover my bike seat in the ( Read more... )

You know, I used to vaguely wonder what the conservative equivalent of threatening to move to Canada was. Did they all promise to buy 300 guys and live in a shack in Montana or something?

Now I know. They bring guns to town halls, throw hissy fits over nothing, and talk about about Russia like it is 1965.

So weird.

Wow. It has been a good long time since I updated this thing, hasn't it ( Read more... )

Saturday 11am @ The Mills Chapel.

There will be a reception after at the Student Union. Everyone is asked to bring food to share. Everyone loves a potluck.

Flowers can be delivered to the Mills Chapel between 8am and 10am the day of the service.

T's sister Norah wanted me to make sure to emphasize that this is intended to be a celebration of ( Read more... )

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I have an interview for a cataloging internship at the Academy of Art library today and I am having trouble figuring out what to wear. Librarians do not dress formally for the most part. Especially librarians who work in tech services since they don't interact with patrons. My cataloging professor wears trainers to work, for god's sake. But it ( Read more... )