The Cat in the Laundry Room
My parents have a cat that I cleverly named “Dipstick”, due to her solid blackness with a white-tipped tail. This cat was born at our house in the laundry room which is an exterior room …
A Sunday Story: 2011-12-11
This past week left me emotionally drained, with the excitement of signing on for my new job and putting my notice in at Flickr. I’ve started to say a few farewells at the office and each one …
That's a Wrap
As of yesterday, I’m on my way out the door at Flickr, as I’ll be joining some former Flickr folk and some new faces at Caterina Fake’s new startup in short time. I’m terribly …
The Milkman of Human Kindness
I was listening to Stereogum’s Top 50 Albums of 2011 and started at #1 and started working down. There were probably only 2 in the top 10 that I’d consider okay so I stopped. Just not good …
Yearbook
So I’ve been working on gathering the bits and pieces of my online life from the past year and getting them together into a book that I’m tenatively calling “Yearbook: 2011” …
A Well-Designed Post
Yesterday, I toyed around with the idea of turning my entire blog into a nicely-formatted book, in both PDF and epub format. This would probably interest no one but myself, but I’ve seen other …
Thanksgiving
As I’ve gotten older, Thanksgiving Day has become one of my favorite holidays as there’s a simplicity in the day that I’ve really grown to appreciate. The center point of the day can …
Nobody puts tarsnap in a corner
I woke up this morning around 7:30 with my laptop (a Lenovo R61i running ArchLinux) not feeling quite as snappy as usual. After viewing top, I saw where my nightly backup to tarsnap was still running, …
A Sunday Story: 2011-11-20
This week was another busy week, with the Wine Country trip on Monday and Tuesday with a mad rush back to San Francisco Wednesday morning, and then countless meetings the rest of the week. I’ve …
Photos from our Trip to Wine Country
Meghan and I went to Napa Valley with her parents this Monday and Tuesday, staying at a vineyard and visiting several wineries for special tastings. It was one of those special trips where we received …