I got some offline feedback on my last entry, with the effect that I rethought a few things. Here are some of the new thoughts: Anonymity. The way I defined this previously was “being out in public without being notable”. This isn’t a very good definition, because, as Gavin pointed out, anonymity actually has a […]
Privacy, Accessibility, and Notability
As a result of some long-ago and more recent conversations with smart friends of mine, I came up with some interesting thoughts about privacy. I don’t fully understand the legal umbrella of privacy, but it seems to me that there are a few distinct concepts that it would be useful to introduce into quasi-legal/common-sense discussions […]
Epiphany?
I was looking up the name of the holiday that’s today because a contractor of ours said that she would be off until Jan. 6, which is the end of her holidays. Apparently it’s called Epiphany, and: Prior to the reform of 1955, when Pope Pius XII abolished all but three octaves, the Roman Catholic […]
Straus Family Creamery: not just cheese
I mentioned Straus Family Creamery back in my Mt. Tam post as providing the milk that goes into Cowgirl Creamery cheese. Besides that, of course, they also make milk and other dairy products, like yogurt. Ryan very kindly brought some SFC whole-milk Eurostyle yogurt to dinner the other day as an unexpectedly awesome component of […]
Hipsters (argh!)
Hipsters: reverse meta-fashion? Discuss.
New year, new food.
I’ve been doing a good bit of cooking since I got back from my Christmas trip: squash and black bean empanadas, vegan crepes with fruit, chickpea curry. Today I decided to try something new, the recipe just before the empanadas in Veganomicon: Autumn Latkes. These are latkes made with carrot, sweet potato, and beet shreds […]
Comment overflow (temporarily) halted
After sorting through the overwhelming mass of spam comments I’ve been getting, I figured out that most of them were attached to one of two or three old posts — presumably posts with keywords or PageRank that the spammers liked. It didn’t look like closing comments on those was going to be a huge issue, […]
Ups and downs of the car-free life
I’ve had a post draft sitting in my WordPress box for a while about the ups and downs of bike commuting, because I wasn’t convinced I had anything substantive and new to say about that subject. Today I had an experience that integrates what I was trying to say into a larger context. When I […]
Ending the 101
In other goal-related news, I decided last night that I’m ending my 101 in 1001 (which should go until November 9, 2009). Why? When I started the 101 in Febuary 2007, I was in something of a life funk. I’d been doing the same basic thing for almost a year — same job, same apartment, […]
The loose ends, still fraying
I was reading an old post of mine from my LiveJournal, Oops, the loose end fell out again. Coincidentally, I read it just after reading a post by a LiveJournal friend about her goals for 2009. I usually don’t start thinking about my goals for the next year until after Christmas, but the two posts […]