Neil Gaiman – one of my most favorite authors ever and probably the most real celebrities I know of – has Twittered about a project Ian did. (Neil’s part is here.) I don’t know about Ian, but I’m perfectly giddy about the whole thing!
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I don’t think I like grief. It’s unpredictable, illogical. If somehow my eyes don’t burn, my stomach hurts instead, and if I’m actually having a moment of physical peace, I’m uneasy in my mind because I simply don’t know what to do. This wasn’t supposed to affect me like this. It’s not like there was a car accident, something swift and sudden, leaving us all shocked. This went on for years, longer than even the doctors thought it would. We said goodbye by degrees, brain cell by disappearing brain cell, always a one-way conversation, over and over and over again. …
Ian’s Thoughtsam has made the local news! I’m not really that envious of all that creative energy going into something somewhat tangible, I’m not. In completely unrelated news, there are now flowers in the front yard: And we now share the house with a cat named Wasabi:
Proof that sometimes things actually get done: Ian’s team at LiveLabs has just released a Firefox plugin for Photosynth. I’ve recently finished the first phase of a client’s project and launched Windows to Vietnam, a site about a soon-to-be-published book of photographs and poetry about modern Vietnam. And because everything really does revolve around Caitlyn no matter what I may sometimes think to the contrary, new photos are up at Caitlyn’s site.
A copy of The Stranger materialized in our kitchen the other day, so I had a chance to read this edition of “Savage Love” with an update on “straight rights”: “In particular, and not to put too fine a point on it, they [fundamentalists and conservatives] want to change the way Americans have sex,” [Russell] Shorto writes [in “The War on Contraception,” in the New York Times Magazine]. “Contraception, by [their] logic, encourages sexual promiscuity, sexual deviance (like homosexuality), and a preoccupation with sex that is unhealthful even within marriage.” Shorto quotes Judie Brown, president of the American Life League: …
Ian and I have known each other seven years. In that time, we have moved – majorly, like entire lives in boxes, needing storage units and large trucks – five times. Now, I’m packing for Move Number Six. It’s a shorter move, just down the road 10 minutes, not to another state (or country!), but it still means everything goes in boxes and we need to rent a truck. We have many of the boxes from previous moves, some that date all the way back to Santa Barbara, all nicely pre-labeled so I don’t have to think much about what …