Archive for September, 2005

Pact

Wednesday, September 28th, 2005

Amazon.com: Pact
I can’t speak highly enough about Pact’s WORTH project, which works on women’s literacy and financial empowerment worldwide. They’ve done astounding work in Nepal and Africa, they’re eyeing how to go into Afghanistan, and they’re a finalist for a milion-dollar matching award from Amazon… if they’re the non-profit who raises the most money [...]

What happens when you pause while doing laundry

Monday, September 26th, 2005

What happens when you pause while doing laundry

It’s the smug look that really got to me. I set the laundry basket at the top of the stairs for, oh, 15, 20 minutes, tops, and then Kate calls out from the bedroom that there’s some kind of animal sleeping [...]

What happens when you set the table for three

Monday, September 26th, 2005

What happens when you set the table for three

I suppose Lucy couldn’t stand the gap in the feng shui left by Kate’s absence on a night when I was cooking dinner for me, Mike, and John.

Seems to be Unintentional Videogame Humor Day

Wednesday, September 14th, 2005

While driving to work this morning, shortly after spilling chai on my fabric passenger seat (dammit) the BBC announcer on the radio mentioned that a Chinese computer game company is going to start making
computer games “based on Chinese historical figures,” since many of the online games from Korea
[...]

Engaging writing find of the day

Wednesday, September 14th, 2005

McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Dispatches from Roy Kesey, An American Guy Married to a Peruvian Diplomat Living in China
Start at the bottom, which is where the story begins. I like this guy’s writing style a lot, probably because it’s a combination of fascinating travelogue and daddyblog, of which I’m always envious of the former and [...]