ripped from the journal of neil gaiman, ripped from the mouth of stephen fry...

Bertrand Russell, the great philosopher and mathematician, got into terrible trouble by writing quite fearsome articles against the first World War when it began. He got all these letters from people who said,

to night me teacher said, "in german it's not offensive - it's the second person familiar."

i took last week off. stayed with my parents in new mexico for a few days, it felt good. i like leaving the bay area every once in a while. more than once in a while ( Read more... )

just signed up for a german class at jr. college. wheee!!

leave for europe, feb 2005.
see art, go dancing, speak in foreign tongues.
return, may 2005.

between now and then:
create a check list of pieces of art to see in florence (and a few other cities).
brush up my french, learn more german, learn any italian.
get a good backpack.

i'm liking paper more and more.

i realised yesterday (while awake) that my backyard would be a perfect pygmy goat habitat. so after reading a bit o' irvine welsh i go to bed and dream that yes, i've got a little pygmy goat (a boy, who looks very similar to freya, only with waddles) who is dead silent. i've got to clean up the shed back there to make it a bit more homey for the ( Read more... )

shonda (manager) and arnon (chef) have been talking seriously about giving me a management position. a real management position. [this scares the shit out of me.] i know i can do it, but i'm pretty wary about stepping out from behind the espresso machine. as silly as it sounds, i really like being a barista. it's satisfying: i make people ( Read more... )

the grand lake theater's marquee says, "we will not enforce the r rating for Fahrenheit 9/11."

it's so nice to live in the bay area.

i got a friendster message today in which the author used "there" in stead of "they're."

CAN WE NOT GET THIS RIGHT, PEOPLE?