Category: Etcetera

It’s raining again in LA. A significant storm system is forecast to move into southwestern California today. This system will bring rain to San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties thi morning…Then the precipitation should spread quickly South through Los Angeles county in the afternoon. gusty South winds will also accompany the storm system as […]

It was over before it even had a chance to begin. The judge dismissed the jury today with the thanks of the court. He gathered us all around, explained to us that the case had been resolved without the need for a trial, so we were all free to go. He didn’t say it explicitly, […]

I showed up for Jury Duty today at the criminal courthouse in Downtown LA. I’m completely filled with a sense of civic pride and good old-fashioned patriotism. As I mentioned yesterday, I think that serving on a jury is one of the major duties of a citizen, right up there with paying taxes. (Pop quiz: […]

I got a notice in the mail saying that I was summoned for jury duty at the Superior Court of Los Angeles County. So I called this weekend to see if they actually wanted group number 2 for court location 11, and sure enough, I’m actually scheduled to report at 7:45am tomorrow morning. So it […]

My friend Scott Kirkland said I should feature him in my blog. He’s too lazy to write his own blog. He works for Apple. Call him up and ask him all about Mac OS X (but be sure to pronounce it “Oh Ess Ex” and not “Oh Ess Ten”). OS X OS X.II har har […]

I set my friend Gabriel up with a blog today. Naturally, he’s using the same toolset I’ve got: MovableType hosted on NetSpace. Setting him up took me about 15 minutes, including a workaround for NetSpace’s broken copy of Digest::MD5. Gabriel was my college roommate and is the co-founder of DoTheGood, which provides philanthropy management solutions […]

I’m exhausted. I just got back home from a very long day in Sunnyvale. LAX to SJC to LAX. 16 hours of travel, caffeine, meetings, a bunch of phone calls, a ton of email, and some more meetings. I don’t think I wrote a single line of code today. A few quickies before I light […]

Today (December 2nd) is International Abolition of Slavery Day. According to the iAbolish Freedom Action Network, This year marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of the international community’s decision to abolish slavery everywhere, through the adoption of the Slavery Convention in 1927. Though the legal argument against slavery has been won, slavery persists and even thrives in […]

World AIDS Day is today. I’m doing my part to link to articles about AIDS. I read about the Link and Think campaign last week in Wired News.

It has been raining in LA the past 24 hours. This is fantastic. I can hardly even remember the last time it rained. Certainly not this summer. This has lots of great side-effects: I don’t need to water the lawn this week. The streets are going to get nice ‘n’ clean. All of that gross […]