Posted by: meaplet on: April 17, 2008
Sorry, RSS readers! You got an unexpected surprise today in the form of all the entries you’ve read before… given to you again, as a bountiful gift from WordPress. This is actually exciting news because it means that I spent my lunch break fiddling around and linking the blog to the meaplet.com domain, which I’ve […]
Posted by: meaplet on: April 16, 2008
I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that I did some blogging elsewhere–and came out about my obsession with data. At least I didn’t go into details about how Tax Day excites me because of the abstract thought of the amount of data that gets collected and the cool analysis you could do on […]
Posted by: meaplet on: April 16, 2008
In the updated version of his Safire’s Political Dictionary, William Safire traces “blogger” to mean something like “person who persuades opinions and communicates by the written word.” He claims that it goes back as far as Pliny the Younger. Now, when I first heard this, I thought it was total bullshit. But the more I […]
Posted by: meaplet on: April 6, 2008
I spent today having bicycle adventures in Bernal Heights. I read last night that the loop around Bernal Heights is almost exactly one mile and a good place to do laps/hill training, so I decided to check it out. First, of course, that meant biking up to the top. I did a couple of laps […]
Posted by: meaplet on: March 23, 2008
B: Why is it that none of the hand towels in our apartment ABSORB WATER? me: Because that isn’t their intended behavior. B: ::looks at me skeptically:: me: They’re from IKEA; they’re meant to be decorative, not useful. If you want water-absorption, file a feature request. B: But then I’ll have to pay for the […]
Posted by: meaplet on: March 17, 2008
Today, I had a most edifying conversation with my good friend Erica. I was showing her the brackets for the March of Time Madness. Me: Victorian Era or Enlightenment? Her: Enlightenment, for sure! Me: Elizabethan Era or Dark Ages? Her: Elizabethans! Me: Viking Era or Minoan Greece? Her: Vikings! Me: Nooooo! Minoan Greece! Her: Dude, […]
Posted by: meaplet on: March 2, 2008
(Based on Dan Savage’s Karmic Rule of Kink) If you break up with the honest person with an anxiety disorder, you are destined to marry the dishonest schizophrenic.
Posted by: meaplet on: February 22, 2008
Certain people claim that I am not a satisfactory blogger if I don’t update every day for their reading pleasure. To that, I say “pfft, enable comments on your blog and then we’ll see what I do on my blog.” Anyway, below is a genuine email exchange that took place in my work email over […]
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