New Blog Look

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Someone landed on my blog on an ask.com search for HOW DO I GET FOOD UNSTUCK IN MY ESOPHAGUS. If I had something stuck in my esophagus I know the first thing I would do is go browsing blogs for advice on what to do. And I sure am glad I posted that treatise on “How to Get Food Unstuck in your Esophagus” a few months ago, looks like I might’ve saved someone’s life.

So Harvard’s got a new blog server and this blog is going to get a new look soon. Actually it already has one and you can see a preview here. Don’t change your bookmarks though, that’s just a test blog and when the changeover happens it’ll still be here at this address.

Cute Cliche

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I discovered via Cute Overload
that the former kitty photo in my banner was now an AIM icon, so I
changed it rather than be so unoriginal. For now I’m using an image of
a friend’s painting. If you want to buy any of his paintings let me
know and I’ll pass it on.

Cute Overload

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New addition to the blogroll, to replace the now-defunct Random Kitten Generator: Cute Overload.

New Blog Look

Someone landed on my blog on an ask.com search for HOW DO I GET FOOD UNSTUCK IN MY ESOPHAGUS. If I had something stuck in my esophagus I know the first thing I would do is go browsing blogs for advice on what to do. And I sure am glad I posted that treatise on “How to Get Food Unstuck in your Esophagus” a few months ago, looks like I might’ve saved someone’s life.

So Harvard’s got a new blog server and this blog is going to get a new look soon. Actually it already has one and you can see a preview here. Don’t change your bookmarks though, that’s just a test blog and when the changeover happens it’ll still be here at this address.

Cute Cliche

I discovered via Cute Overload
that the former kitty photo in my banner was now an AIM icon, so I
changed it rather than be so unoriginal. For now I’m using an image of
a friend’s painting. If you want to buy any of his paintings let me
know and I’ll pass it on.

Cute Overload

New addition to the blogroll, to replace the now-defunct Random Kitten Generator: Cute Overload.

Bloggy Wedding

Tonight I crashed an infamous blogger wedding party at the Charles Hotel and had drinks with the illustrious logansdave and tomorrow my feet will star in an MIT motion picture. Right now I must try to sleep without puking.

Check It Out

I love this photoblog, I got sucked in and looked at every single photo.

via raymi

GapingVoid

I passed around a lot of my blogcards at Silverdocs.

Comedian Blogger

Patton Oswalt has a blog. A real live frequently-updated personal blog. He’s the guy on the Comedians of Comedy tour with Brian Posehn and Zach Galifianakis (and also a regular on King of Queens). I learned of the blog when watching the film about them at Silverdocs, where in one scene Brian and Patton are poking around a comic book store in Portland, Ore., and Zach (who was not supposed to be in town yet) suddenly walks by. They ask him how he found them, and Zach says “I read Patton’s blog.”

I’m writing this in the van as we idle in the Comfort Inn parking lot, waiting for everyone to load up. Dave, Brian and Zach went out last night, but Ole Grandpa Oswalt was feeling sleepy-bye and went to bed. Not that I slept, since Comfort Inn fills their mattresses with random pipes, wrenches and geodes.

Later today I will have my final Silverdocs wrap-up post, assuming the Internet Gods don’t fuck me over again and eat my post.

Sometimes Real Life Takes Over

This week is a little hectic and blogging will remain slow, but rest assured you will get pics of the new hair later in the week and then next week the blogging extravaganza from AFI Silverdocs in lovely downtown Silver Spring, Maryland.

Vulva La Net?

Sometimes, I am embarassed to be a woman.

Cute

“When I subscribe to an RSS feed that means I want a long-term relationship.”
Scoble, via Dave

Potential Interruption In Service, Or Not

Last night I collected final papers which must be rapid-fire graded in
3 days, so this blog may be quiet for a bit. Then again the more work I
have the more I look for ways to procrastinate, blogging being one of
those, so blogging may actually increase in the next few days, who
knows.

Local Celebrity

One of my blog posts was cited in the Globe’s Blog Log today. Why don’t they include links to the mentioned blogs? Do they know what the internet is?

Rainy Day Roundup

*Raymi is so funny sometimes.

i like it when cats think they are invisible and stalk around you like you can’t see them and they are obviously planning to pounce onto your lap after you told them to fuck off a hundred times so they wait it out a little while then a lightbulb goes off in their head to come at you from the left side, something they never ever do, and therefore you will not see them and they have outwitted you because they are so fucking clever and then i turn my head really fast and look him right in the eye and he takes a step back and is like oh my god you can see me, WTF!?

 

*Mike Doughty takes a cute picture onstage, via Joey.

 

*Dowbrigade gets pensive.

We use hints and hunches to figure out what to say. Something appropriate to the situation, otherwise everyone looks at you funny. Luckily, we have developed over the years a fairly cohesive and constant personality, so if we just go with the first thing that comes to mind, it usually makes sense and passes mustard, even if we have no memory of what we said a few minutes earlier, or what the person we are talking to expects us to say.

Why does this not frighten us? The dissolving of a sequential persona could be a serious handicap in day to day living. But personality is, after all, an artificial construct on top of consciousness. If we learn to trust our instincts, we will always be in the right place at the right time. Conventional chronometrics are highly overrated. Individuality is highly overrated. Memory is an ego thing.

 

*I don’t know why it took me so long to get a Tegan and Sara album. Sigh. “Take me by the hand and tell me you would take me anywhere…”

It’s A Blog World

Tonight I ate fancy French food and drank free wine and made a new
friend who it turns out grew up in the same town as me and and we
walked home down Mass Ave and I saw a blogger and I told my new friend about blogging and while I was talking about blogging then I saw another blogger and the world seemed to be getting smaller and smaller and smaller.

The Lowdown On Comment Spammers

Is here.

Big Brother Is Here

This kind of scares me–someone throws out an old journal and it is found by someone else, who blogs about it, including scanning some of the pages and posting a photo of the author and her full name. And someone sees it who knows her and blogs about it. So the act of discarding a personal diary in this instance amounted instead to broadcasting it to the world with name and photographic attribution. So anyone who Googles this girl’s name–prospective employers, romantic prospects, family members etc–will instantly find her personal diary.

That’s why I do this with old diaries:

UPDATE: The post has been removed at the request of the author of the journal.

The Bigger Half

I don’t think I’ve mentioned lately how much I love Kitty.