recovering 31 August, 2008

It’s been a great past few weeks. I’ve finally concluded my year of, um, “social independence” — the completely blank friend-slate of living 8000 miles away from just about anyone I’d ever met — with only brief visits from Tom and Uncle Jim, Monica and Lauren, and a couple weeks with my (nuclear) family to [...]

the good life 29 August, 2008

I may have been “relieved of my post” at one of the volunteering things I did this week (hint: it involved insufficient training and was patently unsafe), the first time I’ve ever been fired from anything, but the week as a whole was an absolute joy.
I was at Mile High tonight for Obama’s nomination speech. [...]

convention week 24 August, 2008

Denver is completely crazy. There are people absolutely everywhere downtown, walking around with all manner of flair-buttons and political tshirts and crazy crazy signs. Even though things don’t officially start til tomorrow, we definitely had a full day today of conventiony stuff (Steph’s in town visiting!).
Rep. Mike Honda was wearing cowboy boots and a string [...]

a selection of consumer products 21 August, 2008

Because, frankly, whatever you think of capitalism as a system, it occasionally produces pretty excellent stuff.
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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
-Arthur C. Clarke
I kind of like this statement in general, but I had no idea it would apply to real, affordable consumer goods in 2008. I refer, of course, to my Sonicare. That [...]

20 August, 2008

just noticed an its / it’s error (though I’d like to believe it was a typo) in an old post. ick.

breaking news from Boston 19 August, 2008

I just drove for the first time in Boston today. And now I really just need to lie down and start breathing normally again.