Monthly Archives: August 2005

Ruined. I’m going to Burning Man. San and I decided we’d do this at about midnight last night. Since then we have made giant strides. We have: Got a tent. Got a camp. Got water carrying apparatus. (Camelbak packs.) Got … Continue reading →

Apparently I’m going to Toronto! Hooray!

Or, rather, to the city. I made a video. Apols for the shaky camera work and shakier editing- I could do with a monitor for my Mini. Sloooooow direct download link. Mirrors, anyone? later: Here’s a mirror. Thanks Anja! And … Continue reading →

Robin Cook and now Mo Mowlam. Tony Blair must be so pleased.

Tom, are you okay?

Here in Silly Valley, nothing is real. Buildings are torn down and remodelled before they get old. Pavements are scrubbed every other day. The other night I thought I heard rain on my window. It was a misadjusted sprinkler. It … Continue reading →

I went white water rafting. I saw an otter, a turtle and some ducks. I also saw the first natural environment I’ve been in for three weeks. Or so I thought. It turns out that the river we were rafting … Continue reading →

My office has a glass front which faces out into the cube farm here, and we have double-sided whiteboards with suction cups to fix them to the glass frontage. On the side that faces out, I’ve been drawing different things. … Continue reading →

Well, it’s back! And it’s even weirder! I love this thing.

I am actually starting to look like a kernel hacker. HELP.

If you’re old enough, or vicariously sufficient, you may remember a moment. In the late 1970s, maybe the early eighties, it depends where you were. The Space Shuttle was going to change the world, the Soviets were starting to talk … Continue reading →

Chuck Palahniuk believes that the reason for the preponderance of violence in American society is that Americans have ideals which they consider more important than personal safety, and that the possibility of violent death without warning is a necessary side-effect … Continue reading →