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Not the best year…
↓ disaster
↓ oklahoma
↓ death
↑ seattle
↓ death
↓ breakup
↓ death
↑ girlfriend
↑ birth
↑ chicago
↑ birth
↑ fort myers
…but clearly looking up.
Yearly Archives: 2007
2007 in review
December 31, 2007 – 11:29 pm
Kindle
November 19, 2007 – 11:32 am
My completely unwarranted review of Amazon’s new Kindle e-book reader, without touching one:
The eink screen’s light gray colouring looks ideal, and a bright white would certainly cause eyestrain. But what’s with the white casing? It appears distracting, like reading a paperback in a frame that covers the margins in bright white.
The keyboard is entirely too […]
Facebook Yelps
November 18, 2007 – 11:24 pm
Facebook’s new advertising model includes publication of activity from partner sites in news feeds. Their official list of affiliates does not include Yelp, but tonight, I had a little DHTML “toast” pop-up inform me my latest review would be shared on my Facebook profile.
A little investigating shows that this was pulled off via a […]
Broken
August 27, 2007 – 8:09 pm
By now, close friends and family are all aware, so I can “publish”: I broke my engagement with Kristan on the 18th.
While there’s nothing minor about ending a 5 year relationship scheduled for marriage in another year, it has been remarkably facile. All of my stress was experienced over the last two months, agonizing […]
Seattle 2007
June 13, 2007 – 11:36 am
Some quick thoughts from Seattle, WA:
People here aren’t afraid of each other. Much of the “feel” of this city seems to grow from that foundation.
There is a taxidermied dog at the SAM, sitting on a chair in a fairly obscure corner. A group of teenagers (from South Korea, I believe) streamed by it as […]
Bob Valentine 1946-2007
April 27, 2007 – 7:41 pm
This is just a place:
we go around, distanced,
yearly in a star’s
atmosphere, turning
daily into and out of
direct light and
slanting through the
quadrant seasons: deep
space begins at our
heels, nearly rousing
us loose: we look up
or out so high, sight’s
silk almost draws us away:
this is just a place:
currents worry themselves
coiled and free in airs
and oceans: water picks
up mineral shadow and
plasm […]
OKC
April 24, 2007 – 8:09 pm
Oklahoma City is tiny. Bricktown is sterile, but for the cowboy panhandlers.
And it’s all entirely too close to Texas.
But the baby is baby-cute and healthy.
…this is the third time in a row I’ve returned home to the relatively-big city. Next trip needs to be to civilization.
Violence, sex, heroism, treachery, revenge
March 9, 2007 – 10:44 pm
My microreview of 300: This is why God gave us Hollywood.
Princesses
March 8, 2007 – 10:12 pm
One of the amusing aspects of life Downtown are the waves of visitors. It is often entertaining to guess what sort of convention is responsible for a new wave of similar people in the CBD, and it’s usual simple to determine whether the home team won the day’s game. Many crowds are familiar, […]
Flooded
March 5, 2007 – 5:13 pm
So, yesterday we discovered that our server room, built out quite nicely by a previous tenant, is located directly under an HVAC chiller. The landlord didn’t seem to know this, either.
This kind of equipment involves a cooling water line direct from the City main. It broke. And dumped a few thousand gallons […]