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On This Day...

• 2013: What do I want to do right now? Understanding my algorithm for discretionary time — Noorul asked, "How do you generally begin your day and how does it span? Do you plan for each hour [...]
• 2011: Monthly review: June 2011 — June was a good month for health-related experiments. The community-supported agriculture box meant that we had lots of vegetables in the house. [...]
• 2010: CookOrDie: Passing it on with lemon-rosemary chicken — After I graduated from university, I moved into an apartment-style dormitory with a small kitchen: a toaster oven, a microwave, [...]
• 2008: Weekly report: week ending July 11, 2008 — Lots of progress and lots of connection – good week! More progress on the Drupal project. It’s starting to really come [...]
• 2007: Progress — I revised the first chapter of my thesis today, incorporating suggestions from my research supervisor. He’s happy with the quality [...]
• 2005: Insights from the brainstorming session — It’s great to have such great friends. Dominique Cimafranca, Charo, and Charlie Lopez were absolutely invaluable during the impromptu Software [...]
• 2004: Stargazing — 160ch — Highways intertwine, a concrete canopy lit by the unsleeping city. Stargazing, we find constellations not in the light-choked sky, but in twinkling [...]
• 2004: Mail — 160ch — “No new mail.” “No new mail.” “1 new message(s)!” Heart jumps! Hands shake. Click, click. Face falls. More spam.
• 2004: A Teacher’s Life — 160ch — The words feel thick and foreign in your mouth. You try again. Some nod. Most are indifferent. Bell rings. As they [...]
• 2004: No signal — 160ch — “Searching…” Step forward. Step back. Wave it around. Off. On. Still no signal. Expensive gadget? Plastic junk. She’s waiting. Damn. Buy long-stemmed [...]
• 2002: Theology oops, classes — school — Bad karma: Didn’t do too well on my Theology test because I hadn’t read the assigned readings. How embarrassing. [...]
• 2002: Kathy’ll be off to Africa RSN — My middle sister Kathy is leaving for Africa Real Soon Now. Nice!
• 2002: Wearables — Apparently the mini banana plugs for my wearable display battery are quite rare. CE guys are looking for it. Slowly finding other [...]
• 2002: Restored iPAQ — Good karma: Restored WinCE on the iPAQ so that she could use it. Procedure was pretty uneventful and not as scary [...]