Archive for the 'Daily drivel' Category



Any takers on FreeCycle?

Published on 23 August 2008

People definitely offer up a lot of dross that wouldn’t be worth the gas to pick up, but this is the strangest one I’ve seen yet:
Offering: corn cobs
Posted by: [redacted]
Sat Aug 23, 2008 10:55 am (PDT)I know it’s a little weird, but you never know.
We bought a […]


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Published on 1 July 2008

It’s been an eventful, stressful, hopeful few months. And I don’t want to tempt the Fates by assuming anything. But a dream I’ve had for a good 10 years has gotten a lot closer to materializing. And for that — and for whom I’m so fortunate to have by my side throughout all of this […]


In Soviet Russia, art buys you!

Published on 10 June 2008

Did you know you can buy art from Yakoff Smirnoff?


Sweet cuppin’ cakes!

Published on 1 May 2008

My workfriends are so awesome. I’ve been hemming and hawing all week about whether to take tomorrow off for my birthday or come in to take advantage of an unusual dearth of meetings and actually get some work done. So they totally surprised me today with an assortment of Kickass Cupcakes (mmm, chai and black […]


The outmoded design of everyday things

Published on 17 April 2008

Today’s article in the New York Times’ Style section on how toothbrush design has changed in a way that toothbrush holders can’t accommodate nearly made me pump my fist in the air while I was eating breakfast. Every time I buy new toothbrushes, I spend frustrated minutes trying to find a brand that hasn’t blimped […]