Entries from June 2002
San Francisco trip
Oh yeah. I’m home. It was a good trip. Good hanging out with Dave & Heidi for the last time before they have twins–good hanging out with them just in general, and likewise with Brian and Maureen. Good re-acquainting myself with San Francsisco–I love visiting that town, but it reminds me that I really like [...]
Wireless Internet stuff
2 Tinkerers Say They’ve Found a Cheap Way to Broadband: This is pretty exciting. Hacking the Wi-Fi protocol makes it possible to blanket a whole city with fast, wireless coverage. Well, that’s the theory.
“A French engineer would say this isn’ the most elegant solution” Mr. Furrier said, “but we didn’t care about that. We took [...]
Posting from Alameda
Posting from Alameda
I’m staying at Dave & Heidi’s, across the bay from beautiful San Francisco. It’s been fun. I’ll be heading back down to San Jose tomorrow to spend another day with Brian & Maureen, and then back to Austin.
Saturday night, I saw the band Luna at Bimbo’s with a friend, Robin, and a couple [...]
Posting from San Jose
Posting from San Jose
I’m staying at Brian & Maureen’s, where spring seems to have come about two months after it came to Austin–star jasmine, wisteria, and such are in bloom, and the whole neighborhood smells incredible. Everyone here seems to have really nice gardens. Plus the weather is about 20 degrees cooler, which (early in [...]
hentai game
Something Awful reviews a “hentai game” from Japan called X-Change.
I’m really not sure who this game’s target audience is, although if it’s the average Japanese teenage male I need to start being a lot more afraid of Japan than I have been lately.
And I’ve got to say, there are some things I’ve never understood [...]
Highland Theater
Jenny points out that the aforementioned movie theater chain is one that specializes in rehabbing dead movie theaters. That’s a noble goal, even if the results are kind of, well, laughable.
New car
So I went and did it–bought a new car. A silver Subaru WRX wagon, exactly as pictured here. To say that I am nervous about taking on car payments is an embarrassing understatment.
Crablike spiny orb weaver
I’ve got a crablike spiny orb-weaver living in my front yard. I’ve long been interested in spiders, and this is certainly an interesting kind of spider. He/she builds a new web every day, and the webs are pretty big–a few feet across.
I’ve also got a bunch of wolf spiders that hang around the house.
About a Boy
Went and saw About a Boy at Alamo North with Gwen last night. Good movie. Recalls some of the spirit of that last Nick Hornby-derived movie I saw, High Fidelity, both being what you might call “adult male coming-of-age stories.” Despite being more feckless, rootless, and alone, Hugh Grant’s character Will in About a Boy [...]
