Archive for December, 2007

Santa Cruz

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

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Well, after taking about a gazillion kinds of transit (actually just AC Transit>BART>Caltrain>multi-system bus), I arrived in Santa Cruz late Friday afternoon for a visit to Andrew here in his Western exile, where he lives in constant terror of our fruit trees, and the unnatural intermingling of deciduous and coniferous trees.

Our activities so [...]

In Bruges

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

This is the description from Apple’s trailer site. These astonishing run-on sentences are marvels the like of which only I am normally capable of causing to be:

In Bruges was filmed on location; Bruges (pronounced “broozh”), the most well-preserved medieval city in the whole of Belgium, is a welcoming destination for travellers from all over the [...]

What is this “blog” you speak of?

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

I’ve been dark here for a while, I know. I’ve been justifiably distracted by all sorts of things, some of them unpleasant, some of them distracting, a few of them entertaining. I shan’t trouble you with excuses.

I will, however, provide this awesome anecdote. I was sitting at Peet’s the other day, drinking tea and puttering [...]