So, although I know intellectually that gmail scans every message and chat I send for keywords so it can sell me ads, I generally am able to not feel creeped out by it. Sure, there was the friend in college whose interest in immigrant rights led to a “Day Laborers for Sale” ad in the [...]
Archive for December, 2008
oh right
23 December, 2008
from something I’m reading
22 December, 2008
“One night I was, as usual, observing the sky with my telescope. I noticed that a sign was hanging from a galaxy a hundred million light-years away. On it was written: I SAW YOU. I made a quick calculation: the galaxy’s light had taken a hundred million years to reach me, and since they [...]
tying up loose ends
17 December, 2008
I fly home for the holidays Thursday afternoon. As a result, my today was rather busy. The morning began with a phone interview (yay! progress!), and the afternoon featured my pilgrimmage to the National Archives to visit my old friends, Declaration, Constitution, and Bill of Rights — not to mention a temporary exhibition jointly sponsored [...]
welcome home?
16 December, 2008
I fly home Thursday. And, lo and behold, from the National Weather Service:
RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
907 AM MST TUE DEC 16 2008
…111 YEAR OLD DENVER LOW TEMPERATURE RECORD TIED FOR DECEMBER
16TH…
THE LOW TEMPERATURE AT THE DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT THIS MORNING
BOTTOMED OUT AT -8 DEGREES. THIS TIES A 111 YEAR OLD DENVER [...]
living
10 December, 2008
I have a place to live come January! Due to the power of teh Internetz, it took less than a week between I-have-no-place-to-live-what-if-I-don’t-fly-back-after-the-holidays panic attack and putting pen to (lease) paper. It was revolutionary. I’m, frankly, still in shock that it turned out to be this easy.
After five-plus years of living on the geographic periphery, [...]
gmail –> a favor
3 December, 2008
My life got approximately 1000% easier once I figured out that the way to keep all your messages with gmail without a cluttered-up inbox is to slap a label on them (this part is optional, but I don’t trust their email search tool entirely), open them up, and then ‘x’ the little tab for “inbox”. [...]
