Archive for January, 2006

inhaling books

Saturday, January 28th, 2006

I can read very, very quickly. In elementary school, I’d read through books quickly enough that I can remember teachers quizzing me on plot points, thinking there was no way I could have read every word and retained any details. I could and did. Most of the time when I’m reading quickly, [...]

from the dryest sources

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

Kate and I are sitting on the couch reading things we’re supposed to be reading; Kate’s reading some continuing-education material on breastfeeding, and I’m reading the CoBIT 4.0 spec, which, as promised by my boss Richo, is pretty freaking dull.
After Kate read me the paragraph about how it’s not surprising that breastfeeding occasionally provokes a [...]

kate’s first goatse

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

kate’s first goatse

Sometime over the weekend, conversation turned to various images which have achieved legendary status online as “shock sites.” Images so gross, so perplexing, so … nasty … as to be burned indelibly into the mind of everyone who has ever seen them.
On hearing about these images, Kate’s curiousity [...]

Brave New Blog

Friday, January 20th, 2006

http://www.baz.org/kate/blog/
After mentioning that she might like to have a place to put some writing, some encouragement and software setup from me, and some concerns about not having anything interesting to say (which I highly doubt is the case), Kate’s got a blog, now.
And lo! The second entry is about me sticking something in my [...]

out for an evening

Saturday, January 14th, 2006

Kate, Joachim, Tracy, Glen and I went out to see Imogen Heap. Kate and I have been listening to her new album, Speak for Yourself, for a couple of weeks, now, and really liking it.
Glen went off to have dinner with some friends, so the rest of us met for dinner before the show [...]