Huh:
- I want to like the NYC Parks pools, but the one at 54th, at least, is... not motivating me to go back. I want to tolerate it, I do, but my nose is still burning. I'm not getting an Asphalt Green or 92nd Street Y membership, no matter how shiny and Olympic-sized and awesome the place is. Really I just want to teleport - prices and all - the ( Read more... )

I'm back in New York, having come back from an exceptionally magical weekend, thanks to a great many of you.

This city definitely feels homelike now; this love, enduring; this work, small now but eminently worthwhile. I hope it's not tempting fate or something to say that.

I do like how quiet Seattle can be. Gives you some space to think (or as dymaxion ( Read more... )

There's an open AP visible from the edge of my studio! More so from the fire escape, and it's leafy out there. Will not go INSANE in the intervening month-or-so before DSL will get properly hooked up ( Read more... )

Things I learned this week:
- How to use screen, emacs (!!!), cat and find (seriously, did not know how to use find, and the answer is not "read the man page ( Read more... )

I think Manhattan's going to turn me freegan. (In the eating-meat-when-I'm-not-paying sense, not the diving sense.) Hospitality trumps frugality, and I guess I can't really complain about the price of meat from a 24-hour local organic grocery store,* but damnOn the other hand, I found a sushi place in the Lower East Side that's on par with Sushi ( Read more... )

Accidental flavor pairing: chain grease and chocolate. It's actually kind of an interesting flavor until I remember that my chain is also covered in road spray from 10th Avenue, and well okay fine maybe I didn't get all the grease marks. What doesn't kill you adds flavor ( Read more... )

Day 2 was lovely, though steamy-hot. I know I can't complain about heat when it wasn't actually as bad outside as it sounds like Seattle was, and when I have a/c inside. (Sorry. Not to brag.)

dymaxion coaxed me to go with her to the Pride Parade (I'd like to think I didn't take much coaxing, even if I did sleep until 11), and it turns out this building is ( Read more... )

I'm there ( Read more... )

I'm having a much calmer day today. Things are working better. No browser conflicts.
Restfulness helps.

Thanks, everyone, for soothing my bitching and moaning in the meantime.

In other news, agate456 is tempting me with this - I think I'm going to join him for the 100-mile out of Portland. This, of course, means we need to train for it ( Read more... )

Series of events:

Yesterday, 4pm, at Bulldog in the U-district, reading the interaction-design issue of Communication Arts. Getting irritated at the level of gushing attention to Flash-driven corporate promo sites. "They're not covering anything that matters," I muttered. (Still, spamcycler was kinda cute ( Read more... )