Is it wrong to judge an IT guy after you watch him trying to insert a floppy upside-down?

Transit types: check out Google transit. It only provides Portland data for now (those Portland bastards have everything) but it's pretty sweet ( Read more... )

Saw Aeon Flux on Friday. It's fun when a big movie is hopelessly awful, but it's sad when it has this much going for it and stinks anyway. The TV show was unique, and the movie has a potentially interesting story and some original ideas. And then someone hit it with the stupid stick over and over again. Characters are brilliant but don't plan ( Read more... )

Somewhere out there there's someone I know who's been meaning to see "Primer." This Monday at 7:30 is their chance to see it on the big screen at Coolidge ( Read more... )

Last week I made a joke with my boss that hinged on the words "approaching it asymptotically."

No matter how much you want gnocchi, don't order it if they come "lightly tossed with maple brown butter and fresh sage, then topped with gorgonzola cheese ( Read more... )

Thanks to everyone who came to our party! It went really well, I think. We had a couple dozen people, and a good mix, and I think everybody had fun. It didn't start to die down until around midnight and didn't end until 2:30. We even got a little bit of sticky party floor. And even though we bought way too much booze, for once, people drank it ( Read more... )

This Saturday at 8, come by for two parties at once: one to celebrate our engagement , and one to mock my irreversible slide into adulthood. Drink twice as much, stay twice as late, get twice as arrested. Write or call for details.

1. Go here.
2. Pass it on.
( my answers )

The news from New Orleans is too horrible to look at and too horrible to turn away from, so I end up keeping it in the corner of my eye, aware of it without trying to understand it because I don't think I could ( Read more... )

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