I love the Palo Alto Daily News. Whether it is talking about the pope’s sex summit, or discussing at length a police officer that was injured by a cat, it has a quintessentially Palo Alto charm to it that strikes me as amusing. See, for example, the picture that accompanies an article about the “pillowcase [...]

Sometimes, AOL gets the wrong pictures mixed in with the ads, and it results in some hilarious combinations: I mean, who wants to smell like Scooby Doo?

Decided to see Spiderman today. All in all, I was decidedly pleased — it’s one of the better adaptations of a comic book that I’ve seen. The script was decent; it actually had — gasp! — spots of ambiguity and subtlety, and hewed fairly closely to the comic book. I was not big into comic [...]

I love small town papers. They have such odd mixes of the banal and the esoteric, mixing major news with local events in a truly bizarre stew with a dash of sometimes questionable editing. For example, the Palo Alto Daily News is shown to the left, reporting on the liberalization of the Catholic church. Man, [...]

There are certain deities that rule over the computer world, and some of the most important of these are the demo gods. If you ever have to give a demo in front of people, you will pay obesiance to them, for they rule your life. Some of their rules: Thou shalt do something at least [...]

I fell into a conversation with someone at Starbucks for a while today while I was quaffing my espresso campana due to the long line for napkins, believe it or not. It turned out that she was a student, but that she was also working part time as a dating referee. I don’t know if [...]