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Last night I drank margaritas with my coworkers and then saw Beirut, and it was a very very good show. There were trumpets and something cal...

I passed my diseased lungs onto Mike, so our Memorial Day weekend was significantly less than ambitious. We still got to see lots of people ...

The US and UK publishing industries, despite some key differences, work very closely together, and I think this article by The Observer ...

Well, sort of - I'm on the partner side of things (i.e. books from publishers) and this is mostly about the library project (books from ...

Who wants to do some trail runs with me? The 9k in Pacific sounds fun (6/21), and so does the Angel Island 8 or 16k (7/5). I'm going to...

Sorry for the crappy resolution - think of it as an embodiment of the opacity of the bill (700+ pages, yes!). P.O.S.: we're going to kee...

My friend's dad is a defense attorney for capital punishment cases. He almost never wins because he takes on the toughest cases, but he...

Did you know that Indonesia is the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases? Mike's coworker is interviewed in the article. And speaki...

I keep meaning to submit stories to Glimmer Train , but then I put it off, even though I think they're doing a great job of filling in t...

Today Condoleeza Rice came to speak on campus, and I wound up in an overflow room with a huge HD screen that made her look giant and intimid...

Mostly for my reference - my apologies: Easy Ricotta Gnocchi

Despite a hacking cough and more phlegm in my body than was at all fair, I made dinner last night (yum, right?). Steamed snap peas and brocc...

I'm not ready to own property, let alone renovate anything, but I still have a yen to do what these people did . They have a yard, a gar...

I love Weekend Sherpa , even though I'm not sure how I feel about its name, because doesn't "Sherpa" refer to an ethnic gr...

I guess there are a lot of G Brennans out there, because at least once a week I get an email meant for someone else. Today I got George Bren...