Exchange
I signed up for a Sears credit card in order to get the discount. The cashier says to me, “You get a $15 credit, so your undies were free today.” Undies? Please, boxer briefs.
View ArticleLetter to self
I found this letter when I got in to the office today. I wrote it late last night after reading about the end-user programming workshop at CHI, which I had no idea about. I didn’t have any work to...
View ArticleWet Whistle
I’m sitting in a hotel in Missoula, Montana (the most beautiful state in the union). I’ve had a hugely eventful summer, I’m still hacking away at my summer of code project, and dreaming up lots of...
View ArticleOh Missy
For the dance fans, here’s another dance video I recorded with Kate over the summer: Click here to watch
View ArticleTwins
I am walking home from Chipotle tonight, belly distended and rather happy. As I dart around the bus stop on 5th and University, a muscular bald man who looks like he may have just been released from...
View ArticleIssues in 19th Century Music
In the 19th century, many people were poor and lived in cold places. Their gloves had holes in the fingers from wear and tear, and, let’s face it, who can afford new gloves when you are a poor thatcher...
View ArticleDogfood, bootstraps, and working code
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View ArticleFriendship stories
Budding best friends ride the bus home. They both know they want to hang out without having to ask. He goes to the laundromat with her and sits on the counter while she separates whites from colors....
View ArticleThis is a tennis store, right?
Camille and I went to Ray’s Tennis today to buy tennis skirts. We’re going to play tennis with Kensy and Katie after dinner coop on Thursday and we wanted to look the part. Camille found a sweet...
View ArticleDaffodil
Janie? Josie? Katie? Karen? I can’t for the life of me remember her name. It was this interchange that did it: her: “We have to name the bike.” (referring to the two seater bike we were rescuing from a...
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