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Recent Writings
I just spent an immense amount of time on two posts: Designing Email for Web Emails. Trying to achieve a single template that will work in proper webmail browsers. It meant basically regressing to 1998 in HTML design. Flight of the Conchords Episode 6 Recap: “Bowie”. It’s the best thing on TV now that Lost…
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Feeling Caught Up
I would usually write little posts about all these things, but in the lazy person that I am I’m consolidating into one “random bits” post. Makes me feel caught up. WordCamp 2007 I only managed to catch 3 sessions- a bit of the User Interface one, which some reported was the best talk, Matt’s “state…
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Vacations
First, this quote, which I read this afternoon and it’s stuck with me. I’m reading Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love. But she was filled with a strange, wild, unfamiliar happiness, and knew that this was love. Twice in her life she had mistaken something else for it; it was like seeming someone in the…
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Stovetop WebSite
To Miranda July: her promo site for her book, No One Belongs Here More Than You and she’s of some fame. Thanks Identity Woman for the link. Really great. I am definitely going to go to her book reading in May. Reminds me of my sister’s site, which she never updates. But it too features…
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Writing Commitments
I feel like that house there. These are the writing commitments I have put on my plate. french translation of iMurder storyboard and screenplay of iMurder one post a day for sf.metblogs.com location movies for iMurder workblog: may move to 1 post a week random thoughts on banane.com It’s all stuff I *want* to do.…
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workblogs
Rare photo of a person- me, on site at American Express, Scottsdale, 2 years ago. They had the best landscaping (raw desert) around their building and I’d always go take photos around sunset. The infamous “slipping on a square foot of desert floor my first day and falling on a cactus” story is from here.…
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Blog Books
First, random thing, I got to show my 9 yr old niece this video: I know it’s been out forever, but still. It’s great. So one benefit of a 9-yr-old’s party is hanging out with her cousin’s parents, who are: a filmmaker, and a book editor. So we’re having a lively conversation about one of…
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What Not to Blog
(in a blogpost, how postmodern…) The reason I have not done my daily little bloggorhea is that lately I’m full of things I shouldn’t write about. – investigative articles that are in progress, involving the police, and eBay. Tantalizing, isn’t it! – annoying people who email me – men who annoy me, namely the ones…
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Selling Shit and Postage
I’m selling a lot of books on Amazon, as I clean out my study. I have finally used up my book of 60¢, 70¢ and 80¢ stamps from the era where I was trying to get my novels picked up by a publisher or agent. So now, somewhat ironically I’m using the postage to ship…
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Tech Post #6: Defensive Learning
Back in college, I got to know UNIX better because someone changed my “.profile” to 1-800-hot-sex. So when you log onto the system and type “who” to see who else is online, on the list of users is a girl named “1-800-HOT-SEX”. Hilarious! Needless to say, in the span of a day I learned how…