My time left in Japan is growing shorter and shorter. One month and change from today, I’ll be on a way-too-expensive flight back to San Francisco, touching down for a week before I head back up…
If you’re a San Francisco native, or come from someplace with a moderately large Hispanic population, you’ve probably had a burrito. Not a veggie wrap, not a gyro, not something you…
If you’re a San Francisco native, or come from someplace with a moderately large Hispanic population, you’ve probably had a burrito. Not a veggie wrap, not a gyro, not something you can…
Unnecessary quotation marks. Someone’s taken it upon themselves to blog this, and it’s wonderful- I don’t get when people got the idea that adding quotes to words just tosses on plain old…
I’ve been playing with alphas and betas of Firefox 3.5 for a while, and it’s been a joy seeing it turn from a crashy, slow memory hog with an awesomely fast Javascript engine to a…
My handwriting has sucked eternally- I still remember neatness coming up as the single issue at my parent-teacher conferences in elementary school. I never ran into legibility problems, but had a…
Girl Talk’s Feed the Animals is one of the greatest albums I’ve heard in a long time. How did it come about? Gregg Gillis put in the fucking work.
Mr. Gillis, who said he saw “Feed the…
I love the idea of a negative interest rate to fight deflation, and if there’s a country that has enough e-cash penetration and economic centralization to effect a change this huge, it’s…
What is a host? He’s a charismatic guy who gets paid by the hour to talk to and drink with women. I find their whole getup pretty funny- skinny suits with lots of jewelry, hair that must take…
