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  • Jun 4 2024

    Stuffed animals and how we grow

  • Jan 23 2023

    Holy

    • quotes
    • poetry
  • Apr 12 2022

    Threes

  • May 10 2021

    one small step for a dad joke

  • Nov 14 2019

    It'll be watching you

  • Nov 3 2019

    Any day...

  • Aug 6 2019

    Some days I need this

    • poetry
  • Oct 27 2018

    Openings and Closings

  • Oct 24 2018

    Not the evening I was expecting

  • Dec 7 2016

    Out of touch

  • Nov 17 2016

    Social media loves echo chambers, but the human brain helps create them — Quartz

  • Feb 29 2016

    On our way back

  • Feb 26 2016

    Maybe shades of what Bilbo felt like?

  • Sep 1 2015

    Woke without an alarm, smiling.

  • Jun 29 2015

    On Carlos

  • Mar 20 2015

    Can't argue with the logic

  • Feb 8 2015

    Zoning advice from a 35-month-old

  • Dec 1 2014

    Masterful use of the passive voice

  • Nov 11 2014

    "You're not. That's okay!"

  • Oct 30 2014

    Milestones

  • Oct 9 2014

    Charlie Stross on consistency in magic UX, and the diminishing of hackability

  • Sep 29 2014

    Mortality and Morning People

  • Sep 4 2014

    That "Here It Comes" feeling

  • Sep 3 2014

    First half-day did her in.

  • Sep 2 2014

    Folk Wisdom: not always correct

  • Sep 2 2014

    Here is what I know how to do

  • Jun 17 2014

    The strange wailing of the tornado sirens

  • Apr 26 2014

    So it goes

  • Apr 24 2014

    Stepping out

  • Apr 7 2014

    I've never ascended stairs so quickly

  • Apr 5 2014

    Today, Piper begins reading to her sister

  • Dec 18 2013

    Don't jump *on* me!

  • Nov 7 2013

    "This is why I read history."

  • Oct 25 2013

    Not universally true, but some days, yes.

  • Oct 24 2013

    Everything is going up

  • Aug 21 2013

    Dragging myself forward by my eyelids, today

  • Aug 9 2013

    Creaky

  • Jul 9 2013

    I have felt exactly this way for years.

  • May 17 2013

    Let's work on the "barter" concept, shall we

  • Apr 24 2013

    Intriguing hypothesis!

  • Mar 4 2013

    One year ago, today

  • Feb 22 2013

    Just the view from the inside

  • Feb 21 2013

    [sound] Office Coffee

  • Feb 21 2013

    What we were and are

  • Jan 30 2013

    Jared Diamond’s Guide to Reducing Life’s Risks - NYTimes.com

  • Jan 29 2013

    My first time out

  • Jan 29 2013

    Weather, go home. You are drunk.

    • weather
    • wtf
  • Jan 22 2013

    Why You Never Truly Leave High School -- New York Magazine

  • Dec 20 2012

    Link: The conservative case for an assault weapons ban

  • Dec 20 2012

    I suppose it's possible, I guess

  • Dec 19 2012

    What an excellent read.

  • Dec 12 2012

    Things I learned emptying and reorganizing our indoor freezer

  • Nov 4 2012

    Kate is in New York

  • Oct 24 2012

    Sweet moment

  • Oct 16 2012

    Hello, intentionality!

  • Oct 10 2012

    Things I didn't know about my wife ten years ago

  • Sep 16 2012

    All Together Now

  • Sep 15 2012

    Right in principle, at least

  • Aug 25 2012

    bits and pieces

  • Aug 22 2012

    In which news is delivered

  • Aug 8 2012

    Maine 2012

  • Aug 7 2012

    Things I learned on my summer vacation

  • Jul 12 2012

    Steam punk home improvement

  • Jul 12 2012

    Three years ago today

  • Jun 26 2012

    On my back and spitting out soil

  • May 12 2012

    Not just for breakfast

  • May 3 2012

    A morning

  • Apr 10 2012

    Sasquatch child, at home

  • Apr 8 2012

    A religiously-versatile kid

  • Apr 3 2012

    Can't tell if it's too soon or too late

  • Mar 31 2012

    Nonspecific incredulity

  • Mar 30 2012

    Thunder and Backpacks

  • Mar 27 2012

    Overblown overnight metaphors

  • Mar 26 2012

    The Life Aquatic

  • Mar 23 2012

    Comparison May Be Inevitable

  • Mar 21 2012

    Absolutely

  • Mar 17 2012

    Unfair comparison du jour

  • Mar 16 2012

    She's probably right

  • Mar 14 2012

    Speedy delivery

  • Feb 6 2012

    Two steps back from the brink, one step forward

  • Jan 26 2012

    90 Percent of Death, as Life, is Just Showing Up

  • Nov 14 2011

    Story time at the dinner table

  • Oct 29 2011

    A quotidian evening worth recording; also a coda

  • Oct 17 2011

    The situation

  • Sep 27 2011

    If you don't write it down, it never happened

  • Mar 10 2011

    You'll roux the day

  • Feb 15 2011

    On Tuesdays, I stay at home

  • Feb 3 2011

    Looking at the world from 2 feet high

  • Dec 5 2010

    Schneier on Security: Full Body Scanners: What's Next?

  • Dec 3 2010

    Having breakfast in the dark with Stevie Wonder and some angry dwarf

  • Nov 12 2010

    Clay Shirky on News sites' 'Paywall Economics'

  • Nov 10 2010

    Cars (again) - Charlie's Diary

  • Oct 29 2010

    Independent Hand

  • Sep 28 2010

    At least this time it's an actual phone

  • Sep 15 2010

    The Dumpling Effect: The Trouble with Coolhunting your Dinner - The Awl

  • Sep 15 2010

    Five Whole Minutes

  • Aug 20 2010

    Fragment: Walking home in the cool of midnight

  • Aug 16 2010

    Communication skills are key in a marriage

  • Jul 8 2010

    I had never heard of the conjunctiva before, personally

  • Jun 26 2010

    Penny Arcade - The Shipment

  • Jun 20 2010

    Love is / What I Got

  • Jun 14 2010

    Anthony Bourdain, Father, on fast food

  • Jun 14 2010

    Home is what you do when you're alone

  • Jun 8 2010

    Four awesome things, two 'awesome' things

  • Jun 7 2010

    Putting the 'loco' in 'locomotion'

  • Mar 31 2010

    Of course

  • Mar 31 2010

    Delayed

  • Mar 16 2010

    5 Days

  • Jan 8 2010

    Nap / Not Nap

  • Jan 6 2010

    A small milestone, with apologies to William Carlos Williams

  • Dec 11 2009

    Audio snippet: Laughter in Burgville

  • Nov 23 2009

    How It Began, pt 1

  • Nov 7 2009

    A wonder, a marvel

  • Nov 6 2009

    So these are the days these are, these days (Part 1)

  • Oct 13 2009

    Her Father's Daughter

  • Oct 10 2009

    Piper Notes #2: not our monkey, cooing, Governors' Island

  • Oct 3 2009

    Jargon: "Hitting the snooze button"

  • Sep 30 2009

    That's Not a Trick

  • Sep 8 2009

    Fragment: going to work, early

  • Aug 31 2009

    Why I love my friends

  • Aug 28 2009

    Piper Notes #1: Wings, gender, baby pterodactyl

  • Aug 24 2009

    Smiles, HHH, fender bender

  • Aug 5 2009

    You and me and baby makes you and me and a tiny crazy person

  • Aug 1 2009

    Turmeric and Occam's Razor

  • Jul 30 2009

    Return to my desk

  • Jul 26 2009

    Prepared, she sleeps

  • Jul 25 2009

    Nicknames for which our daughter may legitimately disown us, later

  • Jul 23 2009

    You know what it's like

  • Jul 23 2009

    Koan du jour

  • Jul 23 2009

    An unbelievable noise

  • Jul 21 2009

    In translation from the original, pt II

  • Jul 16 2009

    In translation from the original, pt I

  • Jul 16 2009

    Audio snippet: hiccups

  • Jul 14 2009

    Words and phrases which do not yet roll easily off my tongue

  • Jul 13 2009

    a little wrinkly and a little linkly

  • Jul 13 2009

    Surprisingly prompt, considering her parentage

  • Jul 12 2009

    Delicious finds

  • Jul 12 2009

    So this is what it's come to

  • Jul 8 2009

    Returns

  • Jun 30 2009

    Calm before the storm

  • Jun 28 2009

    Tweets of the day

  • Jun 26 2009

    Tweets of the day

  • Jun 25 2009

    Tweets of the day

  • Jun 22 2009

    Infinite Summer

  • Jun 22 2009

    Tweets of the day

  • Jun 19 2009

    Asparagus, focea lettuce, radish, baby fennel

  • Jun 13 2009

    From the bottom of a bottle

  • Jun 12 2009

    Isn't she lovely?

  • May 2 2009

    For our inevitable nerd child

  • Apr 17 2009

    Can you see the little piggies / crawling in the dirt?

  • Mar 18 2009

    2 months after rolling in, walking out

  • Mar 16 2009

    Orange bottles

  • Mar 7 2009

    Take a shower / and shine your shoes

  • Mar 3 2009

    Two days of learning

  • Feb 28 2009

    Some days aren't like others

  • Feb 23 2009

    Rooms are just boxes in space, but even so

  • Feb 20 2009

    Ai180 #4: cooking with gas

  • Feb 17 2009

    Ai180 #3: Day Pass, car noise

  • Feb 13 2009

    Ai180 #2: too many notes, maybe?

  • Feb 2 2009

    Ai180 #1: All popped p's and no script

  • Jan 26 2009

    Trach out

  • Jan 26 2009

    I seriously did not order pot roast for dinner

  • Jan 22 2009

    just a little more like everyone else

  • Jan 19 2009

    the radio star likes video just fine, thanks

  • Jan 16 2009

    even mediocrity can inspire

  • Jan 15 2009

    snowy with partly awesome

  • Jan 13 2009

    HH #1

  • Jan 13 2009

    Quick update

  • Jan 10 2009

    Adam's progress

  • Jan 8 2009

    Adam's in rehab!

  • Jan 7 2009

    We tried to go to rehab..

  • Jan 4 2009

    hello world

  • Jan 4 2009

    A little more energy

  • Jan 2 2009

    Trach collar a go-go

  • Jan 1 2009

    Bring on the New Year

  • Dec 29 2008

    Perhaps the video says it all

  • Dec 25 2008

    Christmas morn

  • Dec 24 2008

    Guest Post by Jess

  • Dec 23 2008

    Plasmapheresis #2 down!

  • Dec 21 2008

    Predictions?

  • Dec 19 2008

    Bad News

  • Dec 17 2008

    Status quo

  • Dec 14 2008

    What a day

  • Dec 12 2008

    Guest post by Kate

  • Dec 11 2008

    Plateau

  • Dec 10 2008

    Adam Update

  • Dec 8 2008

    Guest post by Kate

  • Dec 7 2008

    guest blog from Adam's mom

  • Dec 6 2008

    ZOMG Kindle

  • Dec 6 2008

    Guest post by Sarah

  • Dec 4 2008

    Things that are more difficult with numb hands

  • Dec 4 2008

    Still here

  • Dec 4 2008

    Waves

  • Dec 3 2008

    Days start early

  • Dec 2 2008

    When I sleep

  • Dec 1 2008

    Moving the goalposts

  • Dec 1 2008

    Weaker, but anticipatory

  • Dec 1 2008

    Privileges... revoked

  • Nov 30 2008

    Kith, Kit, kin & Kindle

  • Nov 30 2008

    fashion show

  • Nov 30 2008

    latest developments

  • Nov 30 2008

    On returning from a 1.75 hour MRI

  • Nov 29 2008

    I have become / uncomfortably numb

  • Sep 14 2008

    DFW found dead this morning

  • Sep 14 2008

    "I wanna give a shout out ... to Dasani!"

  • Sep 4 2008

    Roger Simon: on why the media should apologize

  • Sep 3 2008

    Gabriel Garcia Marquez: There's "no better job" than journalism.

  • Aug 19 2008

    All this week...

  • Aug 8 2008

    I hate losing things, but I love finding them.

  • Jun 25 2008

    Returning, triumphant

  • Jun 12 2008

    Justices: Gitmo detainees can challenge detention in U.S. courts - CNN.com

  • May 23 2008

    Favrd

  • May 22 2008

    Two things I have now that I didn't before:

  • May 19 2008

    Where's the Charlie's Angels theme when you need it?

  • May 19 2008

    Rands on Twitter

  • May 11 2008

    Oil, garlic, flame

  • May 10 2008

    Neatly sums up my feelings about tea, more or less

  • May 10 2008

    Today is the first day of the rest of your weekend

  • May 6 2008

    McCain as Zelig

  • May 6 2008

    AP: Mobile News Network

  • May 4 2008

    An Upstart Up Against a Jewel - New York Times

  • Apr 29 2008

    Gonna have to find me some more of this "Clay Shirky" fellow

  • Apr 28 2008

    So it turns out ...

  • Apr 23 2008

    Inmate Count in U.S. Dwarfs Other Nations’ - New York Times

  • Apr 22 2008

    Spotlight: Livestock impacts on the environment

  • Apr 20 2008

    nice quote in the midst of an anxious week

  • Apr 19 2008

    Saturday Morning

  • Apr 16 2008

    With web powers come web responsibilities...

  • Apr 16 2008

    Things not to do in a week with deadlines

  • Apr 15 2008

    Hard to blame the cats on this one

  • Apr 12 2008

    " ... are doomed to repeat it."

  • Apr 12 2008

    Plans and offers

  • Mar 24 2008

    In other news.

  • Mar 24 2008

    "... any one day in the Olduvai Gorge was a lot like any other."

  • Mar 15 2008

    Heading down to DC

  • Mar 5 2008

    Running to stand still

  • Mar 4 2008

    turns of phrase and dinner

  • Mar 1 2008

    What I had and hadn't

  • Mar 1 2008

    Director, reporter, music-picker

  • Feb 19 2008

    Punctuation geekery on the NYC subways

  • Feb 16 2008

    The sub-prime mess, explained in pictures

  • Feb 15 2008

    Our first of thirteen

  • Feb 14 2008

    Holes I never noticed before

  • Feb 12 2008

    "moblogging"

  • Feb 9 2008

    Wow.

  • Feb 7 2008

    Ears or brain?

  • Feb 5 2008

    Sounds like a racial epithet, but probably isn't!

  • Feb 4 2008

    bleargh

  • Jan 30 2008

    Mistaken identity

  • Jan 24 2008

    The Scottish Play

  • Jan 21 2008

    The Passing Eye

  • Jan 18 2008

    NPR : How to Get a Good Night's Sleep

  • Jan 17 2008

    Don't send in the clowns

  • Jan 16 2008

    With apologies to Dooce

  • Jan 9 2008

    Oh, right, I remember now

  • Jan 5 2008

    First on-air

  • Jan 2 2008

    Jared Diamond on Consumption

  • Dec 28 2007

    The 9 Most Badass Bible Verses

  • Dec 24 2007

    In her tummy

  • Dec 19 2007

    Long day

  • Dec 15 2007

    Phrase du jour

  • Dec 14 2007

    Lucille's Ball

  • Dec 11 2007

    what's that feeling?

  • Dec 10 2007

    As I Highlighted it

  • Dec 9 2007

    Productivity tip

  • Nov 22 2007

    Menu

  • Nov 20 2007

    "Well, the front fell off."

  • Nov 5 2007

    Michael Pollan on the Farm Bill

  • Nov 2 2007

    Every man has his breaking point

  • Oct 9 2007

    Blessing of the Animals

  • Oct 1 2007

    little joys

  • Sep 30 2007

    Extraterrestrial Pretexting

  • Sep 27 2007

    Judge Learned Hand

  • Sep 26 2007

    Now we're cooking with gas!

  • Sep 26 2007

    VOA Pronunciation Guide

  • Sep 24 2007

    Tea Drinking continues

  • Aug 24 2007

    Weak Tea

  • Aug 21 2007

    Short takes

  • Aug 17 2007

    The missus is home

  • Aug 17 2007

    Why I love reading Paul Ford's writing

  • Aug 16 2007

    The heat is on

  • Aug 12 2007

    Kate, triumphant

  • Aug 12 2007

    first day out

  • Aug 10 2007

    Gathering rosebuds while one may

  • Aug 8 2007

    Oriented

  • Aug 5 2007

    Arrivals

  • Jul 30 2007

    Bodies in motion

  • Jul 9 2007

    Success!

  • Jul 4 2007

    What I learned in a dream this morning

  • Jun 26 2007

    Odious word creation of the month

  • Jun 26 2007

    Two

  • Jun 23 2007

    Waiter?

  • Jun 12 2007

    One chapter ends, another begins

  • Jun 11 2007

    Dude, it's 4:20 ...

  • Jun 2 2007

    where the bodies are buried

  • Jun 1 2007

    New York Times article on "wasting" time at work

  • May 31 2007

    here's the sort of thing I'm talking about

  • May 29 2007

    Psychic Detritus

  • May 16 2007

    like two ferrets in a burlap sack

  • May 15 2007

    Musings on Food | The Public Radio Talent Quest

  • May 11 2007

    "I'm not going to do this right."

  • May 5 2007

    Cinco, quatro, tres...

  • Apr 27 2007

    Post Gig

  • Apr 26 2007

    overheard on On Point

  • Apr 25 2007

    Dateversary.

  • Apr 24 2007

    I need a miracle every day.

  • Apr 13 2007

    Why you should be reading The Penis-word Resource

  • Apr 11 2007

    You know what's awesome?

  • Apr 6 2007

    In Berlin!

  • Apr 5 2007

    April Blizzards Bring May ... Lizards?

  • Mar 31 2007

    The Penis-word Resource

  • Mar 28 2007

    Public Radio Talent Quest

  • Mar 11 2007

    Day 6: The Phlegm-ening

  • Mar 2 2007

    Flickr recognizes Madison

  • Mar 2 2007

    In other news...

  • Mar 2 2007

    reading more, reading less

  • Feb 12 2007

    I miss Molly Ivins already.

  • Feb 8 2007

    Matt Taibbi: The Idiocy Behind the '9/11 Truth' Movement

  • Feb 6 2007

    Beandance

  • Jan 29 2007

    Unhappy Meals - Michael Pollan

  • Jan 25 2007

    Sent the last one off today

  • Jan 18 2007

    Cold, at last

  • Dec 13 2006

    the haunted house ride

  • Dec 12 2006

    Another passing

  • Dec 12 2006

    Okay, seriously now, what the hell

  • Dec 9 2006

    Dinner of champeens

  • Dec 8 2006

    Excellent article on Burnout

  • Dec 5 2006

    The fingers and brain are much better now, thank you

  • Dec 5 2006

    In no particular order

  • Nov 29 2006

    Fun way to start the day

  • Nov 28 2006

    Whew. (a bit of luck.)

  • Nov 27 2006

    Best Beans

  • Nov 21 2006

    Seventy-two degrees

  • Nov 20 2006

    Ridiculous culinary weekend

  • Nov 11 2006

    changing the fingers changes the mind

  • Nov 10 2006

    Political Ads: the voiceover guys interviewed on NPR

  • Nov 7 2006

    Thought for the day

  • Nov 5 2006

    "First you are a citizen. First this is a nation."

  • Nov 3 2006

    Stationkeeping

  • Oct 25 2006

    NPR : The Dog Who Loved to Suck on Toads

  • Oct 6 2006

    ONLY IN INDIA

  • Sep 29 2006

    Antiterrorism Bill on Detainees, Geneva Conventions - Rushing Off a Cliff - New York Times

  • Sep 29 2006

    Iraqi Journalists Add Laws to List of Dangers - New York Times

  • Sep 29 2006

    drunk

  • Aug 24 2006

    of bats and mice

  • Aug 23 2006

    Barack Obama, on public service

  • Aug 21 2006

    OK Go: "Here It Goes Again"

  • Aug 17 2006

    Judge: Wiretap program unconstitutional

  • Aug 13 2006

    Kung Fu Monkey: Lunch Discussions #145: The Crazification Factor

  • Aug 13 2006

    from my morning pages, this week:

  • Aug 13 2006

    Cold toes and a quiet house

  • Aug 9 2006

    With apologies to everyone I've ever sat with at a seder

  • Aug 9 2006

    It couldn't have happened to a nicer conservative, hawkish, turncoat, jackass

  • Aug 7 2006

    Just like that

  • Aug 3 2006

    On beyond "thunderstorm"

  • Jul 28 2006

    Things you can do before breakfast, if you get up early enough

  • Jul 28 2006

    zefrank is my new hero

  • Jul 26 2006

    McSweeney's : Contest Winner #1

  • Jul 17 2006

    Home again, Home again

  • Jul 13 2006

    Thagomizer, via Wikipedia

  • Jul 13 2006

    Serious Whimsy Problem

  • Jul 11 2006

    Fireworks

  • Jul 11 2006

    Getting into things

  • Jul 8 2006

    Google: saving the world

  • Jul 3 2006

    New information comes to light

  • Jun 27 2006

    It's like living next door to the killing fields some days, I swear.

  • Jun 25 2006

    1 year ago today, right around now

  • Jun 21 2006

    for McSweeneys: Debra

  • Jun 19 2006

    Writing Contest

  • Jun 19 2006

    TMJ (bleah)

  • Jun 18 2006

    Guess who's coming to dinner

  • Jun 16 2006

    Why I like the word "aioli"

  • Jun 7 2006

    I do it to myself.

  • Jun 1 2006

    Interesting times

  • May 22 2006

    Things I learned this weekend at Frank's bachelor party

  • May 15 2006

    In a window at sunset

  • May 10 2006

    small victory

  • Apr 28 2006

    On semicolons

  • Apr 26 2006

    Late night mistake

  • Apr 25 2006

    Mayme Noda

  • Apr 22 2006

    Mayme's passing

  • Apr 19 2006

    to space

  • Apr 19 2006

    good mood, good food, good tunes

  • Apr 13 2006

    Hurried dinner

  • Apr 12 2006

    doing the right thing tastes like cough syrup, sometimes

  • Apr 12 2006

    Paul Ford is my new favorite writer

  • Apr 11 2006

    Pack your mind and the rest will follow

  • Apr 10 2006

    Photobooths

  • Apr 9 2006

    Sunday, brunchy Sunday

  • Apr 3 2006

    First Dork Ride of the Season (with GPS)

  • Apr 1 2006

    Word of the ... well, quite a while, now.

  • Mar 29 2006

    Redefining Adulthood

  • Mar 28 2006

    Inside Man: fun

  • Mar 28 2006

    Things I'm done with, mostly

  • Mar 9 2006

    Stop the bus, I'd like to get off

  • Mar 3 2006

    sick day

  • Mar 2 2006

    Toothpaste For Dinner blog

  • Feb 28 2006

    the advantage to receiving both a banana-cream pie and a GPS for one's birthday

  • Feb 27 2006

    If we ever have twins

  • Feb 23 2006

    Fafblog Q&A

  • Feb 21 2006

    Another day, another eggplant torta, another Epic Fantasy

  • Feb 14 2006

    cooking at a run

  • Feb 13 2006

    Of bars and dollars

  • Feb 13 2006

    The Federalist Papers #51

  • Feb 12 2006

    Atomic Blast Photos

  • Feb 11 2006

    Woodpiles and shutters

  • Feb 9 2006

    Dan Savage interviewed in The A.V. Club

  • Feb 7 2006

    and all through the house / not a creature was stirring

  • Feb 6 2006

    awakened

  • Feb 6 2006

    We're baaa-aack

  • Feb 4 2006

    Lincoln speaks

  • Feb 3 2006

    Rolling, Rolling, Rolling

  • Jan 28 2006

    inhaling books

  • Jan 27 2006

    from the dryest sources

  • Jan 23 2006

    kate's first goatse

  • Jan 20 2006

    Brave New Blog

  • Jan 14 2006

    out for an evening

  • Jan 12 2006

    night out, night in

  • Jan 8 2006

    An idea worth refining, I think

  • Jan 5 2006

    Succintly said

  • Jan 5 2006

    Breakfast

  • Jan 4 2006

    New Years

  • Dec 30 2005

    lord, how true

  • Dec 30 2005

    Big Finish

  • Dec 29 2005

    absence makes me wear the same sweater.

  • Dec 23 2005

    "Honey, I think your baked albino dog crap is done!"

  • Dec 22 2005

    mini muffin tin

  • Dec 22 2005

    Sabina Oscar

  • Dec 22 2005

    REUTERS 2005 Pictures of the Year

  • Dec 15 2005

    There's no substitute for experience.

  • Dec 15 2005

    Full of beans

  • Dec 13 2005

    quote of the day

  • Dec 12 2005

    Snow on Monday Afternoon

  • Dec 7 2005

    Well, that's very considerate of them, I guess.

  • Dec 7 2005

    Reentry

  • Dec 4 2005

    Home, in a nutshell

  • Nov 15 2005

    We land in Kiwiland!

  • Nov 10 2005

    Whew.

  • Nov 10 2005

    Anxious

  • Nov 7 2005

    Only the essentials.

  • Nov 6 2005

    rough hands

  • Oct 21 2005

    Discover article on the Clock of the Long Now

  • Oct 16 2005

    Deluge Day

  • Oct 11 2005

    misheard

  • Oct 11 2005

    sick and tired

  • Oct 8 2005

    Motorcycle regarding leaves

  • Oct 6 2005

    Found

  • Oct 4 2005

    Foggy Morning Breakdown

  • Sep 28 2005

    Pact

  • Sep 27 2005

    What happens when you pause while doing laundry

  • Sep 27 2005

    What happens when you set the table for three

  • Sep 14 2005

    Seems to be Unintentional Videogame Humor Day

  • Sep 14 2005

    Engaging writing find of the day

  • Sep 14 2005

    Leaves no room for parody

  • Sep 12 2005

    Big government is big government

  • Sep 2 2005

    Bandages galore

  • Aug 30 2005

    weekend in Maine

  • Aug 24 2005

    things it's hard to do with my left index finger all bandaged

  • Aug 23 2005

    the vorpal blade went snicker-snack!

  • Aug 21 2005

    Passing

  • Aug 19 2005

    Quote of the day

  • Aug 18 2005

    Overheard in the nearly empty cafeteria, coming from behind the lunch counter

  • Aug 11 2005

    'Go For It!'

  • Aug 11 2005

    Seems plausible enough to me

  • Aug 10 2005

    Dan Rather's Son

  • Aug 9 2005

    Jeff's Wisdom

  • Aug 9 2005

    heck of a week

  • Aug 6 2005

    Graffiti from Pompeii

  • Jul 27 2005

    Today's Score

  • Jul 23 2005

    I count 14.

  • Jul 21 2005

    Laugh du jour

  • Jul 20 2005

    Good news / Bad news

  • Jul 18 2005

    Indian Food Aftershocks

  • Jun 27 2005

    the best, the best, the best day

  • Jun 22 2005

    rain and spreadsheets

  • Jun 21 2005

    Bowties and 2x4s

  • Jun 21 2005

    Things not to do

  • Jun 20 2005

    Counting down

  • Jun 12 2005

    best two dollars ever

  • Jun 11 2005

    Remember, Kids...

  • Jun 10 2005

    Tornado!

  • Jun 10 2005

    you gotta be careful

  • Jun 10 2005

    Hot, sticky

  • Jun 6 2005

    Bow before me!

  • Jun 3 2005

    more is less

  • Jun 2 2005

    ah, fish

  • May 30 2005

    Antarctica

  • May 17 2005

    Tasty salad dressing I made last night

  • May 13 2005

    It's Official!

  • May 13 2005

    Yet again, I love McSweeneys

  • May 12 2005

    The Disney Muppets

  • May 12 2005

    Psych!

  • May 12 2005

    highly derivative sequels

  • May 11 2005

    Morning Cacophany

  • May 6 2005

    Fametracker :: The Fame Audit

  • May 4 2005

    Interesting article on Autism and a possible gender-link to its frequency

  • May 4 2005

    Doughty and blowers

  • Apr 28 2005

    wound-up week

  • Apr 21 2005

    idea du jour

  • Apr 19 2005

    break fast

  • Apr 19 2005

    good day, sunshine

  • Apr 18 2005

    small potatoes

  • Apr 18 2005

    Slow Fast

  • Apr 15 2005

    Reducing

  • Apr 13 2005

    Weekend Report

  • Apr 11 2005

    Section 457:37 Exceptions.

  • Apr 7 2005

    food, past and present

  • Apr 2 2005

    grey and crappy

  • Mar 30 2005

    This makes me want to subscribe to SA

  • Mar 30 2005

    Evaluations

  • Mar 28 2005

    Dreams and Slopes

  • Mar 23 2005

    Comedy is ...

  • Mar 23 2005

    A way will open

  • Mar 22 2005

    Federal Judge rules well

  • Mar 21 2005

    Giant Steps by Michal Levy

  • Mar 21 2005

    Checks and balances... who needs them?

  • Mar 21 2005

    A Marxist Riverboat

  • Mar 18 2005

    good advice, this

  • Mar 18 2005

    Ambulatory Pachyderm

  • Mar 16 2005

    odd combination

  • Mar 12 2005

    Snow Shapes

  • Mar 10 2005

    Games based on Emily Dickinson

  • Mar 10 2005

    History in Pots

  • Mar 9 2005

    Theory, Practice

  • Mar 8 2005

    Ubiquitous

  • Mar 8 2005

    10 Things; also 12 Steps on the Road to Hell

  • Mar 8 2005

    chuckle du jour

  • Mar 8 2005

    Sodden

  • Mar 3 2005

    a fine evening

  • Mar 1 2005

    Banana Birthday

  • Feb 24 2005

    I've figured it out.

  • Feb 18 2005

    "... do oft gang agley"

  • Feb 15 2005

    looks like a duck

  • Feb 15 2005

    It's dark, and Bill Gates is talking to me

  • Feb 14 2005

    god forbid I get bored

  • Feb 11 2005

    Brilliant Day

  • Feb 8 2005

    Sleeping Gypsy

  • Feb 7 2005

    blue tree

  • Feb 7 2005

    Weekend report, II

  • Feb 7 2005

    Weekend report

  • Jan 18 2005

    Strange bedfellows

  • Jan 17 2005

    What'd did I to do today?

  • Jan 11 2005

    Adding insult to injury

  • Jan 9 2005

    Great/Less Great

  • Jan 8 2005

    2 moments

  • Jan 1 2005

    2004: That was the year that was.

  • Dec 29 2004

    Problems I suspect people in other parts of the country may not encounter as much

  • Dec 28 2004

    Ways to tell that one is, in fact, simultaneously one's grandmother's grandson as well as one's own self

  • Dec 28 2004

    thundering majestically across the plain

  • Dec 23 2004

    Here comes the herd

  • Dec 12 2004

    all-nighter

  • Dec 9 2004

    Studs!

  • Dec 7 2004

    The weather outside

  • Dec 3 2004

    My New Book

  • Dec 1 2004

    Lord of the ... hmmm.

  • Nov 23 2004

    Ah, for the days of the Big Dog.

  • Nov 10 2004

    lights in the sky

  • Nov 8 2004

    finally, the eggplant

  • Nov 3 2004

    Notification:

  • Nov 3 2004

    thoughts.

  • Nov 1 2004

    You'd think it would be obvious.

  • Oct 26 2004

    Upside/Downside

  • Oct 26 2004

    Foggy

  • Oct 21 2004

    HONKING

  • Oct 14 2004

    Cats and Flies

  • Oct 14 2004

    long day

  • Oct 4 2004

    What did we learn today?

  • Sep 7 2004

    galloping

  • Sep 6 2004

    it's quiet

  • Aug 3 2004

    Bleah.

  • Aug 3 2004

    I know it now

  • Aug 2 2004

    fears at night

  • Jul 28 2004

    when it rains...

  • Jul 24 2004

    first breath off, first breath on

  • Jul 19 2004

    faking it

  • Jul 15 2004

    raining

  • Jul 14 2004

    summer night

  • Jun 30 2004

    Throwing the Vole

  • Jun 28 2004

    quiet, sunny day

  • May 8 2004

    Porch Dinner

  • Mar 3 2004

    They're the ones who should know, I suppose

  • Feb 26 2004

    An open letter to Stephanie Herseth

  • Feb 19 2004

    Up has apparently become down.

  • Feb 18 2004

    There's got to be a name

  • Feb 18 2004

    So his cable show sucks, so what?

  • Feb 15 2004

    V-D

  • Feb 9 2004

    A Cynic...

  • Feb 1 2004

    My dear lord.

  • Feb 1 2004

    two pleasures

  • Jan 26 2004

    Lo, the mighty are fallen

  • Jan 22 2004

    "health" care

  • Jan 20 2004

    melancholy

  • Jan 20 2004

    Horse! Delicious!

  • Jan 16 2004

    Like veal calves, I tell you

  • Jan 16 2004

    Gambling

  • Jan 15 2004

    lyrics in the cold

  • Jan 14 2004

    Lord of the Pots and Pans

  • Jan 7 2004

    aftermath

  • Jan 7 2004

    post-party zen

  • Dec 25 2003

    Christmas Observations

  • Dec 17 2003

    I don't have the best relationship with my brother.

  • Dec 17 2003

    Paint.

  • Dec 17 2003

    odd

  • Dec 16 2003

    None

  • Dec 16 2003

    Abyss

  • Dec 11 2003

    Herculean Tasks.

  • Dec 6 2003

    watching

  • Nov 23 2003

    transitions

  • Nov 22 2003

    best laid plans

  • Nov 18 2003

    dream: construction

  • Nov 18 2003

    Little Coincidences

  • Nov 15 2003

    dream: George Clinton!

  • Nov 13 2003

    diving back in

  • Nov 7 2003

    chowdery

  • Nov 6 2003

    Dog in the Leaves

  • Nov 6 2003

    Angels

  • Nov 5 2003

    Lessons du Jour

  • Nov 5 2003

    "You don't get two bowls of sugar"

  • Nov 4 2003

    Caravan

  • Nov 3 2003

    cutting losses

  • Nov 3 2003

    Summer in November

  • Nov 2 2003

    dream: moving offices

  • Nov 2 2003

    long, long day

  • Nov 1 2003

    Late Summer

  • Sep 28 2003

    dream: What's the french word for "Hot Cocoa?"

  • Sep 26 2003

    Sometimes food equating to love isn't a bad thing

  • Sep 23 2003

    dream: I was a poor black kid in middleschool

  • Sep 20 2003

    dream: someone with more knowledge would be more dangerous

  • Sep 13 2003

    dream: two this morning

  • Sep 12 2003

    Irish Breakfast

  • Sep 3 2003

    One day on the farm

  • Mar 28 2003

    lack of will power

  • Mar 27 2003

    necessary evil

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