I am so happy.

Tonight I walked home from the 24th and Mission BART stop. It was Valentine’s day, and the neighborhood celebrated by being outside. Stores stayed open late. Perfumed Latino guys pushed and egged each other on, nervously buying flowers for sweethearts and would-be sweethearts. The bodas civiles joints lubricated their trade…

Yep. That’s some good grammar there. In the future, I’ll make sure not to park my imaginary “car” under THIS vaguely menacing sign…

I visited my local Bernal Heights library branch this afternoon, in search of a place to sit and read. It turned out to be one of the last weeks the building is open before it closes for an extensive renovation. On a kid-filled sunny spring Saturday, the current building gives…

With Chuck back in Michigan, Plover and I decided to work on our serious faces.

You may notice a slew of broken links on the site today. I’m hunting down a bug that happened when I upgraded WordPress yesterday. Thanks for your patience. If you know anything about this error, please let me know: “Fatal error: Call to undefined function: bloginfo()” … etc. **UPDATE** Problem…

2 AM awake Awake, asleep, and awake Foghorn on the Bay There’s no sky today in San Francisco, just fog. Outside, buses and dogs and flowers are memory-distant. I’ve never heard the Bay foghorn from my bed. I happened to wake at the right time. My dad was raised on…

With the recent news of Yahoo’s potential acquisition by vile Microsoft and its prior layoff of 1000 hardworking geeks, there was a bit of an air of piracy in the office last week. Linden Lab is going into another round of recruitment, focusing on web developers, QA folk, and other…