December 2010
19 posts
To Read:
Snoop [finished last night]
In Defense of Food [about 1/3 through, although I skimmed part of the last section… I felt that I had a firm grasp on the point already.]
Lack of Character [Erin’s favorite. She lent it to me a while ago, and I believe her when she says that I’ll really like it.]
Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie [Got this from Auntie Janie for my birthday. It...
Merry Christmas!
Stuff I want to remember about this Christmas (so far):
Last Christmas Eve in Antioch. I didn’t really think about it last night, but I spent a good chunk of my childhood and almost every Christmas in that house with my cousins. Next month, their mom is moving. She hasn’t spoken to my dad since I graduated from high school, so my parents haven’t come to Christmas Eve over there...
Text is more than just words.
From Coast Litho Printing: How To Use Fonts (And Why You Should Care)
Communication, both face-to-face and in writing, occurs on two levels: verbal and non-verbal. To achieve maximum impact, it is essential that this dual communication consistently corresponds. Think about it. Would you find a snickering salesperson persuasive? Would you find a monotone motivational speaker inspiring? No. Not...
Happy National Cupcake Day!
Uh-oh! I’m unprepared!
Strangers on a Shuttle (and other tales from the...
Don’t worry, there is no murder involved in any of these stories. It wasn’t THAT exciting a trip.
Roughly 24 hours ago, I was on a plane from Oakland to Phoenix. Now I’m on the way back, thumbing away at the tiny portrait-oriented keyboard on my iPhone. (The Tumblr app doesn’t respond to my attempts to turn it landscape-wise, no matter how enthusiastically I flip my phone...
“Bitch, please. You threw a phone at your assistant—I don’t think you...”
– Christin on Naomi Campbell
Broken Windows on California Street
Erin and I happened to hear on the news Tuesday night that there’s been series of armed robberies in our apartment’s immediate vicinity over the past couple of months. At least two more happened this week. Erin is pretty freaked out, and every time we enter or leave our apartment, she points at the next block and says, “One happened right THERE!”
Tonight, the Berkeley PD...
Fourteen Actors Acting →
nerd cred
I saw some tumblr post today with a picture of shoes that had mustaches embroidered on them. I smiled and chuckled to myself, then thought about the number people I know who would love to get those shoes for Christmas.
This seemed like a relatively high number of people until I thought about the other number: the one that represents people who would find such a shoe mystifying, unappealing, or...
World of Color
The whole time we were in Disneyland, my parents kept saying things like, “Remember how amazing this was 50 years ago?”
We took our places front and center to watch World of Color, and during the show I thought, “This is what they must have felt like then. This is incredible!”
After the show, my mom bursted my bubble. She said she thought World of Color was okay, but it...
