Collected here are artifacts, communiques, notes and scrawlings of mine culled from all over the Web.
Fri
Nov
28
Just as Starbucks shutters hundreds of stores Blue Bottle expands…newest store coming to the SF Ferry Building.
An optimistic (though perhaps not predictive) sign: Union Square in SF is packed with shoppers today. Though I can’t vouch for their taste.
Taking the family ice skating!
Does having sex with a replicant count as fornication (biblically speaking)?
Thu
Nov
27
SIlver lining dept: If we go into a real depression, I’m thinking it would a good time to go on a scientific expedition to Antarctica.
And now I’m wondering how much Amoeba Records will pay me for all my used CDs. That’s my Black Friday project (to pay for a Mac Mini)
I know it’s a Chinese curse to live in interesting times, but it is a riveting experience to live through this period. I wouldn’t trade it.
Thankful that my baby sleeps through the night, that SF’s winters are mild, and that Earth survived another near miss with an asteroid.
Having the most painful conference call ever with Hungarian procurement officers. Soviet bloc meets Internet economy.
“He’d strangle on his own spit if he didn’t have me to swab his throat out for him.” - 1st Sergeant Warden, From Here to Eternity
My niece, who’s in nursing school , isn’t allowed to use Wikipedia for research — teachers say “anyone can write anything they want on it.”
Wed
Nov
26
Thanking It Up
Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday, mainly because 1) I love salty food, and 2) I don’t actually like holidays. But, I do dig the part about giving thanks. That’s perhaps…
The financial tsunami reminds me of this Krugman article from 1998 where he explains economics via a baby-sitting co-op.
http://is.gd/7NqO