Archive for March 2003

New in {fray}: Bookends

In Clips on 30 March 2003 with Comments Off

New fray story – a place to tell the personal stories of life during wartime, 12 years apart. Bookends: From 1991 to 2003. From school to salary. From home to away. These gulf wars are the bookends of my generation.

Random Saturday Bits

In Uncategorized on 29 March 2003 with Comments Off

» Heather and I went to The Container Store today. Two giant floors of, well, containers. It’s an anal-retentive wet dream. Everything in its right place. And yet we still couldn’t find a magazine rack we liked. I don’t know if that means we’re too anal, or not nearly anal enough.
» The Core is [...]

Yeah, right

In Links on 27 March 2003 with Comments Off

Tell me again how this war isn’t about religion and isn’t about oil and isn’t about money. Ugh.

SF Stories in Mister SF

In Uncategorized on 27 March 2003 with Comments Off

San Francisco Stories ended its intermission today with two stories (that had previously appeared here, but still): The Secrets of Cole Valley and Oh My Aching Legs.
There’s also a nice mention of the SF Stories book over at MisterSF.com, which also appears in the San Francisco Independent today. If you trip over it on [...]

Interfacing

In Uncategorized on 24 March 2003 with Comments Off

Off to the User Interface 7 West conference. Hope to see you there.

January 15, 1991

In Uncategorized on 22 March 2003 with Comments Off

That’s me, second from the right, a few months from 18, when life was much simpler. I was interviewed by the local paper, The Pomona Daily Bulletin. My answers are pure know-it-all teenager brilliance. Back then, I really believed that that all our problems could be solved by just talking to each other.
On my good [...]

On a positive note

In Uncategorized on 21 March 2003 with Comments Off

The Mirror Project is having a funding drive! If you’ve enjoyed any of the 14,000 mirror shots from all over the world, now’s the time to say thanks.

Snapshots from San Francisco

In Uncategorized on 20 March 2003 with Comments Off

And here we see the socially-conscious people of San Francisco keeping other people from going to work, because we’re bombing Iraq.
And here we see the politically aware people of San Francisco keeping a Muni driver from doing his job, because we’re bombing Iraq.
And here we see one of San Francisco’s most valiant citizens punishing [...]

Warblogger? Moi?

In Uncategorized on 20 March 2003 with Comments Off

I’m busy contributing to AlterNet’s War on Iraq coverage today.

It bears repeating

In Uncategorized on 18 March 2003 with Comments Off

They’re cutting the bull
And they’re drinking its blood
Show me a patriot
Show me a scud
And that’s about all I can get from TV
and there’s still this feeling sticking with me.
– Michael Penn, “By the Book“