The rice crispy treat I got this morning at the Nervous Dog coffeeshop The Far Side comic on the wall of the Nervous Dog Chuck, who rode his motorcycle this morning and gave me a lift Erin, who told us where to get Hip Work Shirts for Chuck (Nordstrom Rack…

Queen Bees are expensive It’s damned difficult to find a cat-sitter in Ithaca Johnathan Lethem’s You Don’t Love me Yet is, so far, an absolutely perfect book Tom Phillips is an artist who did a really great book painting featuring fictional books with titles stolen from Shakespeare Roccapulco is a…

Maggie and I visited the bees this weekend. She’s five and wants her own hive. No one ever told her that she’s supposed to be afraid. We cleaned the hive, inspected for mites, and took out some honey frames. Her family watched proudly from a safe distance, and took this…

Today was big and full. I’m tired, so here’s a list for you. Bullet points are less intimidating. I crashed our application today by accidentally deploying to Production rather than my localhost. Oops. But then I fixed it and felt all cool with my mad Linux skillz. I’m staying out…

I haven’t mentioned this before, but I have a rather librarianish habit. I get on research kicks, usually to no end except my own edification. For a month or so, I’ll just get on some topic and won’t let it go. I’ll read books on the topic, surf it when…

I removed some frames of honey from the Cornell Organic Farm beehive last week, and in the process I managed to get stung three times on the hand, so there was no typing for awhile. Still, I didn’t get the worst of it. My partner got stung in the head…