No maps for these territories

I am researching SCO (of SCO vs Linux fame) for a class project (which is to write a case study of a company with problems). While it’s been mostly entertaining anyway, it’s getting late & I’m getting tired, but this made me laugh out loud.

Today I am going to see a crazy movie about a crazy librarian, Alone. We shall see if it is any good or not. It’s at 6:15 at the Broadway Performance Hall if anyone wants to meet up with me. I am dubious but still, librarian + one night stand = must see. —- It [...]

Everybody bitching about the heat should at least be happy it cools off at night here. In the south.. ha, ha. — Exciting things happened today — I got my rail passes for the trip today, and I also changed my ticket to come back a week later. That is because I learned I am [...]

I want to take a road trip, so badly that it makes my body hurt. So. Bad. I have not wanted to just pick up & take off in a car that much for a long, long time. Tonight, I needed some time to think. My Flexcar card had just come in the mail — [...]

I can sit here & listen to street fair bands through my open bedroom window while I do homework, which is pretty awesome. Currently it’s reggae. Whee! I bought a big bunch of fresh organic basil at trader joe’s the other day; because no single person could possibly eat that much fresh basil, it is [...]

I am trying to clean up my room. I am going through my papers; a batch of receipts spills out and I begin to tear them up to go in the recycling. A hundred different pieces of paper, documents of days that I have spent, hours and nights and days. Some have more significance than [...]

My package of linguine has a little splashy note down in the bottom corner, reminiscent of the general mills food pyramid splashes: “Pasta and Other Complex Carbohydrates are the Preferred Fuel for the Brain and Body. A Nutrition Message for the American Dietetic Association.” Which leads me to ask: preferred by whom, precisely? The American [...]