I spent a few minutes on my walk to work this morning watching a muskrat. Hunched under the footbridge uprooting plants, he didn’t mind as I clopped along in my optimistically-chosen high heels. He was intent on his business, wringing small hands around in the mud, looking for the muskrat…

The New York Review of Books contains reviews written at great length by people who wish they had written the book in question and are slightly bitter about it.

Reasons to move here: Sunday Brunch with friends and mimosas Spring in the park Grocery delivery Street food Skiball in bars Chill city dogs

I’m dorking out cross-country today. Cornell has this killer bus that goes between the Ithaca campus and the NYC campus. It has wireless internet, free snacks, and comfy seats. I’m in geek commuter heaven. Life is good. See you in Brooklyn!

Got me a portfolio. It’s just screenshots right now. I’ll continue working on it tonight. Suggestions welcome. I haven’t even checked it out on non-OS X/Firefox machines yet…

You were born in the year of the Dragon, during the month of the Dragon. You are a Double Dragon. Thus, your life will be like a terrible Allisya Milano film vehicle: badly written and full of kung-fu. Your birthday today was a symbolic rebirth. The snow falling on the…

Plover and I in our new home

Elyse Sewell came in second place on America’s Next Top Model. I know this because I spent two solid days watching it on YouTube this winter while battling the flu. Why should you care about Elyse Sewell? Well, she’s funny, she has a livejournal, she’s smart as hell, and she…