The air sticks like an awkward hug on a hot day. Milo is smoking a joint on the stoop two doors down. He doesn’t live there. He just smokes there. I’m unsure of the protocol around that.
“Hey, is that my writer?” Milo calls out, and I grin.
“Hey, Milo. What’s up?”
“Just [...]
I must have bookmarked the social networking plus instant messaging site imeem in my sleep a while back, because even though it didn’t end up in my del.icio.us catalog, I recognized the site name when Jason added me as his imeem friend today.
Am I speaking jibberish yet? Let’s start over.
A few years ago, I [...]
What makes you feel good?
What is the one outfit/piece of clothing/accessory you own that makes you feel incredibly good whenever you wear it? Why? My cat-ear hat, because it makes other people smile, sometimes laugh or comment on it, and then I remember not to take myself so seriously.
What do you do to make yourself [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...This morning, a student approached R, one of my employees, and showed him the following equation: 168 ÷ 12
He then asked R, “Does this mean 168 divided by 12, or 12 divided by 168?”
R responded that it meant the former. The student thanked him and left.
A half-hour later, the student returned, and asked R, “How [...]
Since one of my favorite bloggers raved about the latest release of Flock, I decided to check it out. I think it’s fine as a browser — how can you go wrong, starting from Firefox? — and the Flickr integration is pretty neat, but it’s still an unapologetic resource hog. Perhaps folks [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...Originally uploaded by deborah lattimore.
If you aren’t a fan of Deborah Lattimore’s photography yet, go look. I’ll wait.
Before I met her in person, I knew her as her blue-gloved apple-holding hand on a beach icon. I really looked forward to meeting her; I fervently hoped that [...]
It has been six and a half years, and I am still not used to feeling even a little earthquake.
Just around 05:25 this morning, my bedroom, the flat, the whole building went all wobbly for a few seconds. Wobbly! This still blows my mind. For a few more seconds more, my ceiling [...]
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