The Limits of Humanity

Bonus points for those of you who read today’s title and said to themselves, quietly, “What? About five feet in front of our face?” Emily and I spent the day at the newly rebuilt Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.…

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Ups and Downs

It’s been a crazy week on my home planet, one that presses the line of credibility to an extent. It seems all the books have major crises one after another, piling into one great crescendo that’s either cataclysm or triumph.…

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They’re Just as Suspicious as the Rest of Us

It’s simply miserable in San Francisco today. It’s cold and rainy and the type of weather that most anywhere except this good-weather-forsaken vortex known as the Bay Area would bring thoughts and hopes of overnight snow to salvage the otherwise…

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Of Emus and Bats

I have approximately negative time to post this morning, but there are two things that I just have to post: 1. New Look for Old Bird: The Mep Report got a facelift, courtesy of the efforts/urgings of Mepper Russ Gooberman…

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Sign Post Revisited

People are looking for places to put their anger these days. I don’t know who is responsible for the above depicted action on our front lawn any more than I know who is responsible for skyrocketing the stock market toward…

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In Case You Missed It…

We did it: Watch live video from Adam’s Block (San Francisco) on Justin.tv And also: Watch live video from Adam’s Block (San Francisco) on Justin.tv We learned a lot from this run. Our firstbasewoman was completely out of the shot…

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Western Civilization

On the train ride into work this morning, I wasn’t able to get a seat. The train was running just late enough to pick up enough stragglers to sell all the seats just before Downtown Berkeley. I had to stand…

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The Big Screen

It’s been nearly two weeks since my last substantial (non-Duck & Cover) post. Much time has intervened. I would like to sum it all up, but I can’t. I have finished reading all of David Foster Wallace’s published work. I…

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The Ides of October

There is a man who lives in front of the building where I work. He has been living there for well over a year. I don’t mean he’s living in a neighboring building or he lives down the block or…

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