I’m in Mexcio City this week for a big privacy conference. It also turns out I’m wicked jet-lagged. It was over eleven hours in the air, with a six-hour time difference (that expanded to seven since both Mexico and the UK ended daylight savings time on Saturday night). So here I am, sitting in my […]
My grandmother, may she rest in peace, was a remarkable woman. I’ll write a full post on how awesome she was soon. But right now, I just want to point out that she was a librarian. She started at the University of Washington in 1930–the autumn after the crash. She studied to become a librarian–what was […]
“Blake Glover, 30, a stylist, said that he and his partner, Austen Sydara, 23, a retail buyer, imagined a wedding with a “Brideshead Revisited” theme, because they loved the movie.” -Here come the (stylish) grooms [NYTimes] Yes, and it ended so well for the Marchmains…and Charles, for that matter. Even the first, halcyon section of […]
“so you’re taking it from both ends?” -coworker Stephen Andrew’s phone got stolen on Saturday night at a pub. We called the useless Metropolitan Police almost immediately. Because he had Latitude enabled on his phone, and because the wifi was on, we could tell the police, almost to a house, where the device was at […]
Quote of the day: “Well, there’s a difference between cumming and orasming…” –dinner last night I’ve convinced Andrew that it’s a good idea for us to have people around to dinner on Saturday evenings that we’re both in town–somewhat shockingly, that only seems to be 5 or 6 Saturdays per quarter. Last night was our […]
I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. The flat is filling up. I’m a little worried that we’ll be mistaken for hoarders. Which is to say that I may be bounded in a nutshell. And, more practically, we’ll probably […]
My jet lag finally hit last night. With a vengeance. Two days after landing, I found myself exhausted at about 8pm. I crawled into bed to read at 9, and was asleep soon thereafter. I had crazy dreams. One was about going to a rugby game, and having to climb up the outside of the stadium, […]
As so often happens, yesterday was the nicest weather we had all week in California. Andrew got up early and went for a run while I packed and listened to NPR. For the record, it took 3 weeks before I cracked and turned on NPR. Before that, I found myself unable to tolerate American news […]
Andrew and I are flying back to London this evening. I couldn’t be happier. I’ve been in America since the 14th of September, and if I’m not hanging out with my family (and I’ve spent almost the whole of the past fortnight without them), I don’t really have much patience for being away from London. […]
I go back to work–an offsite week even–and I immediately stop updating the blog. Typical. I need to (and I will) carve out more time for thinking, reflecting and sharing though. And this is an important barometer of how that process is going. I’m in California this week for our team offsite. In another life […]