bopuc/weblog

There are 6 billion kinds of people in this world... Fast food slows you down. It is incorrect to say "A was drowned by you and you were drowned by B". More correct would be: "A allowed herself to be...

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Warning: links to pages not with photos but hardcore porn terminology... Just got a concerned email from Howard regarding the fact that one of the articles on SmartMobs seems to be a spam magnet according to Yahoo!. The fact was...

Hah, that sounds so official like. Back when I was a... oh wait I still am a freelancing web specialist... anyways, I built this "rapid site prototyper" in PHP. It's based on an array which one sets up to...

I'm about 6 foot tall. For a comfortable seating experience I recommend the 55cm ball, inflated to be quite firm; or the 65cm ball, left kinda squooshy. They key being to have your knees bent at around 90 degrees when...

you're not likely to easily find online... Where, exactly, at SFO is the FedEx dropoff located? Searching FedEx's location finder, which requires knowing exactly which combination of checkboxes to toggle, produces a driving map to the airport. Useless. SFO's website...

Woke up feeling like cordwood; stiff, dead, stacked up and left to dry. Bad night's sleep. The number of motorcycles and heavy trucks that pass down this supposedly quiet street at 3am is... remarkable. The number of times a night...

Dammit. Montreal's green again. As am I with envy......

Last night, after returning to the Stamen offices with Eric Rodenbeck and his wife Nikki to pick up my bag, we ended up in a raucous and rolling conversation while finishing off a bottle of Veuve Clicquot. At one point,...

(a collage of conversations) So, Boris, where are you from? Montreal, Canada. But I just got here from Tokyo. Oh wow, that's pretty cool. What are you doing in Tokyo? You must have big clients there who can fly you...

According to the Rosetta Project, which is "Building an archive of all documented human languages" (though judging from the casing of their banner blurb, proper english escapes them), no one in Canada speaks english or french. Funny... I though those...

Excuse me but what the fuck is Canada doing deporting Costa Ricans seeking to live in Canada? Why are we rejecting refugee claims *at all*, and then throwing entire families into jail to await deportation? I have zero tolerance for...

Among the many many lessons I am learning on this trip, one of the most salient, and indeed one that I pretty much knew about, is the fact that I am nowhere near as mobile as one would think,...

2:00am. Bar close. Big guy runs up behind me and then matches my walking speed. "hey man..." "hey..." "I've got a bottle of white wine... wanna party?" "uhhh... sorry man..." "ok, um, what else can i say.. uhh... blowjob?" "ah....

In a follow-up to my "It's not about you" post a few weeks back, Mike Migurski, lead dev on ReBlog, points me to this complaint on "The Taming of The Band-Aid", a small, local weblog about one person's agricultural efforts...

San Francisco for two weeks, friday to friday. Lots of friends to see. Lots of work to do. Then back to Tokyo. Momentum means movement. Serendipity means go. (This is a collage of photos from exactly one year ago...

UPDATED (to be more precise in the answers I seek) In your mind, is it: "A podcast is like radio" ("radio" the medium, not the hardware/technoogy) or "A podcast is like a radio show" (the usage of the medium) ?...

It's May 1st. I don't know what day of the week it is. I don't know how long I've been here. I don't know how long I am staying "away". I don't know if I am going to California next...