No maps for these territories

Considering that I typically am away at work for no more than ten hours a day, if you count the travel time there & back, lunch, etc; and considering that I rarely get more than eight hours of sleep (though on the weekends I sometimes catch up in happy twelve hour binges), and considering that [...]

1. I am sitting in a coffeeshop, using the wireless like a junkie, when the man behind me, sitting on a long bench seat with two older men who are playing speed chess, stretches out his leg & starts talking about the operation he had to do — with a hunting knife, on the pier [...]

Next year things will be better

Your order has shipped! Date: 8/22/2006 Time: 5:36:00 PM Method: FedEx Ground Acer Athlon 64 3400+ 1GB 200GB SATA DVD±RW XP 19″ Widescreen (WXGA) TFT LCD Flat Panel Monitor (Silver) Toshiba 30GB UDMA/100 4200RPM 2.5″ 9.5mm NBB HDD 24x USB External CD-ROM Drive (Black) I am pretty seriously excited. I have not gotten a new [...]

Also, it is pesto time at la casa de BRG. I am going to experiment with making a couple batches (with local basil! and walnuts! and olive oil! and garlic from my garden! Glory, glory!) and then with freezing it and shipping, if I can find little jars. Let me know if you would like [...]

Phoebe Originally uploaded by eekim. It’s more than extremely awesome that Eugene assumes I was helping these folks. Perhaps I was giving them bad directions! L-R: me, Oscar from the Netherlands, and (I think) Nicholas from India.

For someone whose conference is supposedly over, my life is stupidly full of meetings and things to do. On the agenda: – now on the 15th straight day of debriefing with attendees and organizers, I am trying to organize notes and suggestions into something coherent. We had very little communication between the 2005 team & [...]