The Thursday night Linden Lab whisky tasting has degraded in the traditional way. I’m surrounded by tipy nerds, discussing the glories of JQuery. One of my co-workers is wearing a shirt that reads “The Age of Consent Tour 1997″. Nerdcore rap blares from the QA office. Life is good.

My mother, the real librarian (not a digital muckety muck thingamajig like me), will be visiting me here in San Francisco next week. Since she will be hanging around with non-Midwesterners, I thought it would be good to provide her with an introduction to west coast language. I know, right?…

Certain, especially awesome public libraries have live-in cats. I suspect from the lack of spine labels, that this is a privately-owned and operated library monorail lolcat.

Current TV has a segment called “Target Women” that I absolutely love. In this episode, Sarah Haskins, who is frikking hilarious, introduces us to the helpful and empowering phenomenon known as Wedding Television. She gently mocks shows like Bridezilla, Rich bride Poor bride, Platinum brides, and other affronts to sanity….

Page-a-Day calendars are a blatant waste of paper. I’m shocked. Shocked, and very very covetous of this Cute Overload Calendar. I’m buying two. One for me, and one for my grandma. That lady needs more cute in her life. …from Cute Overload

I love Freebase. Here’s a list of people who died via vomit inhalation. Don’t say I never gave you anything.

Oh yes. The IRC Rap Battles continue at Linden Lab, creators of Second Life. Bridie Linden is in town, and we decided to bitchslap some suckah MCs… Bridie Linden: I got so much chips I swear they call me Hewlett Packard I got so much chips you can have a…

This is an excellent study of the many aspects of cats. I, for one, regularly check my cat’s depth, as it often changes depending on the shedding season, and sometimes I loose my cellphone in the fur.