Posts from 2004
January
New Photographs...and thinking about movies | January 1 | Tagged: Travelogue Movies Michael_keaton Will_smith Scifi
Lunch should be this...and 03 music thoughts | January 4 | Tagged: Personal Music General Outkast Prince Coldplay
The Slider | January 12 | Tagged: Music Personal Travel Australia
Onion-esque | January 15 | Tagged: Space Science
Daniel, must be the clouds in my eyes | January 15 | Tagged: Personal Recollections Ladytron Travel
I can surf | January 19 | Tagged: Travelogue Surfing Bondi Trivia Slang Australia
His Dark Materials | January 21 | Tagged: Entertainment
Hesse’s Inspiration for those of us who wander | January 22 | Tagged: Personal Hesse Rootlessness
I could never fall from grace, I’m far too clever | January 26 | Tagged: Personal Australia Travelogue
February
Back in San Jose | February 1 | Tagged: Personal
Blog Silent | February 9 | Tagged: Personal
The Social Bobcat is one of the funniest humans ever | February 12 | Tagged: Personal
Continued validation of the Steve Martin Smirk Theory | February 12 | Tagged: Movies Steve_martin
Did the band Incubus take an angry pill? | February 18 | Tagged: Entertainment Music Anti_bush
The Republican Schizophrenic: Captialism versus Christianity | February 18 | Tagged: Culture
Religion and Innovation | February 18 | Tagged: Religion Geopolitics Economics
Watching some movies while unpacking... | February 22 | Tagged: Entertainment
Finished setting up my bedroom | February 22 | Tagged: Personal Mountain_view
Steven on Same-Sex Marriage | February 25 | Tagged: Politics
What we should really be worried about... | February 26 | Tagged: Geopolitics Bush
Is conservatism incompatible with capitalism? | February 27 | Tagged: Politics
The Decline of the American Empire: When "The Apprentice" MBA became standard issue, and our moral compass was overwritten | February 28 | Tagged: Culture
Thinking about Lebanon still has me thinking about my homeland | February 28 | Tagged: General
Blog-insanity | February 28 | Tagged: Personal Quotes
Drugs aren’t funny, but Dave Navarro is | February 29 | Tagged: Entertainment
Lieutenant Cmdr. Data is the perfect Existential Dilemma in a box | February 29 | Tagged: Entertainment Start_trek_tng
March
Prana | March 3 | Tagged: General
Movie evening | March 4 | Tagged: General
Dinosaurs and This American Life | March 6 | Tagged: Personal Media
My parents, the time travelers | March 8 | Tagged: Personal Recollections
YOU are a LUCKY Person | March 8 | Tagged: Personal Motivation
Yoga Class Number 3... | March 9 | Tagged: Personal Yoga
Madrid attacked | March 11 | Tagged: Geopolitics Terrorism
"Cutting" - a horrid sickness | March 11 | Tagged: Ruminations
Something’s not right in the universe | March 12 | Tagged: Personal
Important News | March 16 | Tagged: Bay_area Fast_food Quiznos
An Apology | March 16 | Tagged: General
Discovering things about one’s body | March 16 | Tagged: Personal
Great links from boingboing.net | March 17 | Tagged: Internet Amusement
James Dedman | March 17 | Tagged: Friends
Rock and Roll needs black-haired girls with shag haircuts.... | March 19 | Tagged: Entertainment
Camille Paglia on Blogs and Blogging | March 19 | Tagged: Blogging
An example of the mendacity of the Bush Administration | March 19 | Tagged: Politics Bush
March 20, 2004 - a good day to live in Northern California | March 20 | Tagged: Personal
If Xeni Jardin were to inteview me.. | March 21 | Tagged: Internet_culture
Finished moving in... | March 21 | Tagged: Personal Movies Mountain_view
Running low on bathroom supplies? | March 22 | Tagged: Modern_times Politics
Sometimes your prayers get answered ... | March 25 | Tagged: Personal
Quick thought.. | March 25 | Tagged: Internet_culture
Scientific progress... | March 25 | Tagged: Religion Government Bush
Last Friday... | March 29 | Tagged: Personal Shooting
Europe... | March 29 | Tagged: General
If you’re active on Sunday morning | March 29 | Tagged: Culture
Diets...and le vin | March 29 | Tagged: Personal Travel Alcohol
Going on vacation tomorrow | March 30 | Tagged: General
April
¡Hola! | April 7 | Tagged: Travelogue
Last night in Catalunya | April 11 | Tagged: Travelogue Catalunya Barcelona Figueres Dali
Slouched back to SJ... | April 13 | Tagged: Travelogue
Got a bit o’ shut eye, existential dread and e-mail (I like mutt! Woof!) | April 14 | Tagged: Personal Mutt Programming
Vivement des vacances | April 14 | Tagged: Travel Personal Work
Worthy of note! Pixies perform ensemble! | April 14 | Tagged: Music
Who is Steven Harms? | April 15 | Tagged: Personal
I saw Kill Bill 2 last night | April 17 | Tagged: Movies Personal Mountain_view P_dizzle
No more, please | April 18 | Tagged: Music
Magazine Tearing Boy on the Plane | April 19 | Tagged: Personal
Condescension done right | April 20 | Tagged: Personal
The best way to get around Barcelona on a Sunny Day | April 21 | Tagged: Travel Spain Bicycle
Classes | April 21 | Tagged: Personal Yoga Mountain_view Flamenco
The myth of wunderwaffen | April 24 | Tagged: Politics Anthony_swofford
New word | April 26 | Tagged: Movies Science
Christianity and Virtue | April 26 | Tagged: Religion Philosophy Essay
I will not be seeing the Passion | April 27 | Tagged: Religion Christianity
Occasionally you find great sites by accident | April 29 | Tagged: Pesronal Web_culture Webcomics Movies
I hate only a few things | April 30 | Tagged: Personal Animals
May
Busy Week(s) | May 2 | Tagged: Personal Mountain_view
Good movies set in SF; recent Netflix movies | May 2 | Tagged: Movies San_francisco Monica_bellucci Almodovar Malena
The spiritual center of the South Bay: Mountain View | May 2 | Tagged: General
Eep! I missed national poetry month | May 3 | Tagged: Personal
Propz to Branson | May 4 | Tagged: Media Television
Off to Londinium tomorrow | May 6 | Tagged: Travelogue
Evil women and eros | May 6 | Tagged: Politics Bush
Coming back from the UK today | May 12 | Tagged: Travel Work London
Living the cyber.chic life | May 12 | Tagged: Internet_culture Travel London
Mice is displaying my art... | May 14 | Tagged: Personal Recollections
Just watched Laurel Canyon | May 15 | Tagged: Movies Cholodenko
Something I forgot about "Blue Crush" | May 15 | Tagged: Movies
The mysterious lore of Linux Chicks | May 15 | Tagged: Internet_culture
British Museum | May 15 | Tagged: London Travelogue
Watched Step into Liquid; Hawaiian dictionary | May 16 | Tagged: Movies Surfing
Something special happened last Sunday | May 19 | Tagged: Personal
Cell Phone Woes | May 19 | Tagged: Bay_area
Going back to Houston | May 19 | Tagged: Travelogue Personal Weddings
BayAreans: Are we snobs? | May 23 | Tagged: San_francisco Bay_area Society
Blog backload...and the couple Newsom | May 31 | Tagged: Culture
Stop wasting time | May 31 | Tagged: Personal
People who love "Law and Order" | May 31 | Tagged: Television Art_and_design Law_and_order
June
Je suis | June 1 | Tagged: Personal Self_discovery Meyers_briggs Mbti
Powerbook is Sick... | June 2 | Tagged: Apple Personal
Stealing ideas from "Just Laura" blog | June 2 | Tagged: Blog
Mac-less | June 4 | Tagged: Windows Apple Personal
Les jeux electroniques | June 4 | Tagged: Video_games Ico
More Ico - inspired whimsy | June 4 | Tagged: Entertainment
Clutter, even clean clutter, is clutter | June 5 | Tagged: Personal Travel Culture
Daniel Lanois is a brilliant songwriter | June 5 | Tagged: Music Art Songwriting
Must break through demotivation | June 6 | Tagged: Personal
The PowerBook is back en route | June 6 | Tagged: Apple Productivity
If you need to fix your keyboard on windows | June 6 | Tagged: Dvorak Productivity
In case you forget... | June 6 | Tagged: Video_games
Not even rockstars party like this.. | June 7 | Tagged: Funny
Realtors in Dallas must be desperate | June 8 | Tagged: Culture
Seattle’s new library | June 10 | Tagged: Urbanism Seattle Design Architecture
If your Powerbook needs some more CONTROL | June 11 | Tagged: Apple Productivity
I love the band Interpol | June 11 | Tagged: Music Interpol Nostalgia Music Sf
I may have a blog fest tonight | June 11 | Tagged: Personal
OK, what i’m working on | June 11 | Tagged: Recollections Music Nostalgia Janes_addiction
Scrapped Jane's Addiction - on to Satriani | June 11 | Tagged: Music
On to Ladytron | June 11 | Tagged: Music
75 minutes to go | June 11 | Tagged: Work Personal
Finished the review.. | June 11 | Tagged: Work Personal Joseph_campbell
Reading the morning sites and... | June 12 | Tagged: Captialism Media
Best Saturday morning show | June 12 | Tagged: Television
Watching "Triumph of the Will" | June 12 | Tagged: Movies Politics
More thoughts on "Triumph of the Will"... | June 12 | Tagged: Politics Movies
Happy Engrish message from Chinatown | June 13 | Tagged: Mountain_view Friends
Scenes from 1987 | June 13 | Tagged: Entertainment
Back to yoga | June 15 | Tagged: Personal Yoga Mountain_view Music David_sedaris
Something inspiring | June 15 | Tagged: Education Internet_culture
I love pulpy sci-fi books in used bookstores | June 17 | Tagged: Books
Some people feel self-conscious at the check-out stand | June 21 | Tagged: Modern_times Media Anxiety
That’s right, you’re not from Texas... | June 24 | Tagged: Friends
I had an out of body experience | June 24 | Tagged: Mysticism Personal
I love Scandinavian Rock Bands — still | June 27 | Tagged: Music Scandinavianism
Speaking of Scandinavian bands | June 27 | Tagged: Music Scandinavianism
Great New Track: "Mass Destruction" by Faithless | June 27 | Tagged: Entertainment
Entry for the Mellies | June 27 | Tagged: Modern_times Media
July
Is that Dido in the Faithless vide | July 2 | Tagged: Music
British people are pretty funny.. | July 2 | Tagged: Psychedelics
OK Two Hours of sleep - aaaarggghhh | July 3 | Tagged: Insomnia Personal Health
Massage day | July 5 | Tagged: General
How badass is GENE HACKMAN | July 7 | Tagged: Movies
The Cardigans’ new record is great | July 10 | Tagged: Entertainment Music
Dennis Miller’s Show on CNBC | July 11 | Tagged: Television Politics
Robert Smith hates Queen — | July 11 | Tagged: Music
More from the Cardigans record | July 11 | Tagged: Music The_cardigans Sweden Lyrics
The Right Kind of Girl | July 12 | Tagged: Media Television
Jealousy | July 13 | Tagged: Music Scandinavianism
Sometimes only Dead Horse can help you make an intelligible response | July 13 | Tagged: Media
Over ten years with PJ Harvey | July 16 | Tagged: Music Pj_harvey
Loot a-purchasin’ | July 18 | Tagged: General
Monday | July 20 | Tagged: Personal Work Education Teaching
A very funny Craigslist forum discussion | July 23 | Tagged: San_francisco
The True Reason the Young look Young | July 24 | Tagged: General
When the internet depends too much on one technology | July 26 | Tagged: Internet_culture
In Memoriam: Francis Crick | July 29 | Tagged: Rip Science
August
My favourite animal at the moment | August 1 | Tagged: Animals
Some funny stuff...and some interesting stuff | August 2 | Tagged: Personal
Time to change... | August 2 | Tagged: Blog
Cameraphone warning to kids | August 3 | Tagged: Personal
Palo Alto Sunday | August 3 | Tagged: Personal
The Holy Spirit | August 4 | Tagged: Religion Spirituality
I love my cell phone for its ringers... | August 4 | Tagged: Personal Music Mozart
Don’t like The Hives — still | August 6 | Tagged: Critique Culture Music
Today is my birthday, and by blog’s too | August 9 | Tagged: Personal
In Memoriam: Harold Harms | August 12 | Tagged: Personal
Only in Texas... | August 19 | Tagged: Culture
Closer to Fine, not Curly Fine | August 19 | Tagged: Networking
If you need to XML, Learn Perl | August 19 | Tagged: Productivity Perl Xml
On Programming.... | August 20 | Tagged: Personal
Asian People Love Me, and they Love my Shirt | August 21 | Tagged: Books
Just watched "Pacific Heights" | August 21 | Tagged: Entertainment Movies San_francisco
I saw "Collateral" the other day. | August 21 | Tagged: Entertainment Movies Michael_mann
Dave Matthews band in trouble for dumping crap? | August 24 | Tagged: Entertainment Music Dave_matthews_band
How long are the days.... | August 25 | Tagged: General
I caught "Hero" last night | August 27 | Tagged: Movies
North Carolina is different | August 30 | Tagged: Culture
Let me just say. | August 31 | Tagged: Critique Culture
September
Finished a book | September 1 | Tagged: Books
Going to Maui in a few weeks | September 3 | Tagged: Personal Travelogue
Scenes from Bayarea, California | September 9 | Tagged: Cooking Personal
George W. Bush’s Magic Glasses | September 16 | Tagged: Humor Politics
Break your heart in Glam | September 18 | Tagged: Music Glam T_rex Bowie
You can’t win, but there are alternatives to fighting | September 22 | Tagged: Movies Capitalism Sears Nostalgia
Hawaii on my mind..."Hawaii" too... | September 22 | Tagged: Culture Entertainment
Ad I hate | September 22 | Tagged: Critique Culture Commercials
Law and Order Premiere | September 23 | Tagged: Entertainment
Still not really packing... | September 23 | Tagged: Entertainment
Gone To Maui | September 24 | Tagged: Personal Travelogue
October
Sanctimony, thy name is Public Broadcast membership | October 1 | Tagged: Culture Kqed
I watched Dirty Harry a few weeks back | October 1 | Tagged: Movies
Ladytron is an excellent band... | October 1 | Tagged: Books Music
I didn’t understand the premise of "The Girl Next Door" | October 1 | Tagged: Entertainment
Virginia Madsen | October 1 | Tagged: Entertainment
Terrorists | October 1 | Tagged: Politics
Lot of new content from the archives | October 1 | Tagged: Personal
I always know I’m back in the South Bay when... | October 2 | Tagged: Culture Fast_food Carls_jr South_bay
Rumour is that Jim Dedman has bought a Mac | October 2 | Tagged: Art_and_design Apple
I always know I’m back in the South Bay when...(Part II) | October 2 | Tagged: Cooking Culture Mountain_view
Media Consumption Weekend Part 1: New music... | October 3 | Tagged: Books Music
Media Consumption Weekend Part 2: Books read in Hawaii | October 3 | Tagged: Books
Hawai'i Pictures | October 3 | Tagged: Personal
More Ads I hate | October 3 | Tagged: Critique Culture
Soros has a blog | October 3 | Tagged: Politics
Yet even more ads I hate | October 3 | Tagged: Critique Culture
Beautiful tattoo work...and video game reveries | October 4 | Tagged: Video_games
Was Bush getting fed lines during 1st debate? | October 8 | Tagged: Politics
Maui wrap up | October 8 | Tagged: Travelogue
Helpful Microsoft Word.... | October 8 | Tagged: Culture
Enoch: Seventh of Adam; Grandfather of Noah, Taken by God | October 8 | Tagged: Culture
Finished my first sizable Cocoa application | October 8 | Tagged: Cocoa
VH1’s History of Hip Hop show | October 10 | Tagged: Culture
My Life with Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fandom | October 10 | Tagged: Entertainment
The Time Traveler’s Wife | October 10 | Tagged: Books
Dedman’s Complaint | October 12 | Tagged: Books Entertainment
iPod seredipity | October 12 | Tagged: Apple
Jacques Derrida died on the 8th | October 13 | Tagged: Philosophy_proper
Damocles and The Time Traveler’s Wife | October 16 | Tagged: Books
On Programming...why I love it | October 18 | Tagged: Programming Productivity
The smell of.. | October 20 | Tagged: Culture
Signs you’re in Silicon Valley | October 21 | Tagged: Culture Entertainment
A summertime snack | October 25 | Tagged: Personal
Dirty Rhetorical Tricks | October 25 | Tagged: Philosophy_proper
Some links! | October 25 | Tagged: Culture Entertainment
Pulp fiction art work | October 25 | Tagged: Entertainment
Ashlee Simpson, outed as lip-syncist | October 25 | Tagged: Critique Culture Entertainment
Dvorak history... | October 26 | Tagged: Dvorak
John F. Kerry for President | October 26 | Tagged: Personal Politics
Arch conservative Buchanan’s magazine endorses Kerry | October 27 | Tagged: Politics
Let’s make it two Massachusetts victories in a week | October 27 | Tagged: Politics
November
Weddings during wartime... | November 2 | Tagged: Culture Politics
Trying not to look at exit polls | November 2 | Tagged: Politics
What to say.... | November 3 | Tagged: Critique Culture
Republicanism explored : What is the virtue of self-interest? | November 3 | Tagged: Personal
A show that scared the bejesus out of me | November 5 | Tagged: Entertainment Scifi Books Recollections
Reset the MT-blacklist | November 7 | Tagged: Blogging
Tender and beautiful: Hopkin Green Frog | November 9 | Tagged: Culture
Do you often forward URLs? | November 9 | Tagged: Javascript
Advertisement in email | November 10 | Tagged: Travelogue
The "oh well" attitude of life and death | November 11 | Tagged: Culture
It’s so obvious... | November 11 | Tagged: Programming
Curse you del.icio.us! | November 11 | Tagged: Web
Occasionally, I think Republicans are decent folks | November 11 | Tagged: Politics
O the irony | November 11 | Tagged: Politics
Computer Scientists versus Everyone Else | November 11 | Tagged: Education Programming Internet_culture
A great set o’ music on KFJC | November 13 | Tagged: Music
More on good musics... | November 13 | Tagged: Music
Are you trying to get something done? | November 13 | Tagged: Arete
If you want to have a successful tech company in the future.. | November 13 | Tagged: Politics Internet_culture
News of the week | November 17 | Tagged: Personal
Tivo 30 second skip | November 18 | Tagged: Tivo
Why you should not commit suicide | November 19 | Tagged: Personal
Why don’t Americans use A4 paper | November 22 | Tagged: Culture
A blasé entry | November 22 | Tagged: Entertainment
New words in Italian | November 23 | Tagged: Linguistics
How bad ass are Detectives Fontana and Green? | November 23 | Tagged: Entertainment
Daily Texan Associate Editor Jim’s Movie | November 28 | Tagged: Entertainment Movies
Postmodernism in the OC | November 29 | Tagged: Entertainment
December
Headed back to Jesusland | December 1 | Tagged: Travelogue
Mixture of blog elements | December 2 | Tagged: Travelogue
Much like LL Cool J | December 7 | Tagged: Austin Travelogue
Thinking about relationships... | December 8 | Tagged: Personal
Yikes... | December 8 | Tagged: Culture
If you consider how popular Jon Stewart is... | December 8 | Tagged: Entertainment
Someday there will be a German word for this | December 10 | Tagged: Critique Culture
The Past... | December 12 | Tagged: Art_and_design
The League of Melbotis adds his wisdom | December 14 | Tagged: Kickinitwitdaleague Personal
Dedman drives across Jesusland? | December 14 | Tagged: Personal
Melbotis speaks | December 15 | Tagged: Culture Personal
The Apprentice | December 16 | Tagged: Entertainment
Happy Birthday James Dedman | December 19 | Tagged: Personal
Desperate Houswife Mania | December 20 | Tagged: Entertainment
Perl coding in the enterprise considered Harmful | December 20 | Tagged: Perl
More on the depravity of Hollywood’s Creativity | December 23 | Tagged: Culture Movies
Happy Christmas Eve | December 24 | Tagged: Personal
Cool video: Blood Red Summer | December 24 | Tagged: Music
Passing on the GTD germ | December 24 | Tagged: Productivity
A Christmas Day Entry | December 25 | Tagged: Culture
Christmas Advice | December 25 | Tagged: Culture
Someone really should have thought this through a little better... | December 26 | Tagged: Culture
I figured out why I like the Gilmore Girls | December 27 | Tagged: Entertainment
New signature iPods | December 29 | Tagged: Apple
43 Folders Meetup in SF | December 29 | Tagged: Design Productivity San_francisco
We all knew the Jewish-reggae kid in college | December 29 | Tagged: Entertainment
For those of you not yet done with Mom Tech support season for the year | December 29 | Tagged: Tech_support Internet_culture