Category Archives: Asides

Interesting links.

New Apartment

I’m sitting inside my new place in San Francisco. The weather is cold but I don’t feel it a bit. The water is hot, the internet is fast, and furniture should get here in a few days. What more do you need? I wish you all could see this big goofy grin on my face.

Solid Connection

My kingdom for a connection faster than 9.6k. This is killing me! We got a little lost today in the mountains above LA, but they were so gorgeous it was worth it. Connectivity right now is spotty at best and my inbox is larger than it has been in a very long time, so I apologize if it takes longer than normal to get back to you.

Best Route

Blogging to you live from Arizona. We’re going to stop in Tucson for the night and I wanted to solicit feedback on what’s the prettiest drive from there to San Francisco. Until now the plan has been “Get on I-10, go West” but I remember some very specific advice from people on what roads to take and not to take once in California, I just can’t remember what the advice was. I’d like to avoid LA if possible, but other than that I’m open to anything. Any suggestions?

Jane Kim for School Board

One of the people I had the pleasure of meeting while in San Francisco was Jane Kim, who’s running for school board there. If you’re voting in that area in this upcoming election I would highly recommend checking out where she stands on the issues and keep Jane Kim in mind when you visit the polls. If you get a chance to meet her before the election you’ll also get to see what a neat person she is, if not you’ll just have to take my word for it.

Dumb Lawyers

I like lawyers, I consider a few to be friends, but I have to question how some of these people made it into college, much less pass the bar. I got a letter today regarding Agilepeople, which I have never even heard of until today, and they decided apparently since the site uses WordPress I was the “hosting company” and I should provide the “name, address, and telephone number of the owner of agilepeople.org. If we cannot secure the information from you regarding the identity of person or persons who are infringing on our client’s legal rights, we will have no other recourse but to consider litigation.” But wait, it gets better! I call the number on the stationary and apparently the lawyer who sent this doesn’t even have the correct number on the letter.

Baggage Handlers

Still at the airport waiting. A plane just arrived and tehy’re loading and unloading the luggageand it’s really shocking — they’re really chunking it. They pick it up and literally throw it so it hits the back of the luggage card. I’ll have to remember that next time I pack.

In SF

I’ve been in San Francisco for a few days again and seen a lot of older friends like Tantek, MJ, Dave, and Dinah but also met some very cool new people like Toni, Jeremy, the lovely Cheyanne, and MJ’s sister Amy. Note that Amy’s site is Team Monkey, not T-Monkey or TeaMonkey. My flight to Houston is delayed a few hours, but thank goodness for wifi and Powerbook battery life. Finally getting around to setting up Dovecot locally on OS X.