JMO

I realize that my posts are pretty awful right now. Very introspective, and probably interesting to noone but me. They will get better, I promise. I’m in the process of finding my voice. While I do so, I’m operating under the assumption that it’s …

I failed at karaoke today. Not the attack of nerves, too scared to sing kind of fail, and not the too loud, embarrassing yourself kind of fail, but a quieter, less unpleasant kind of fail. It just wasn’t my night. I sang, but just a little. The so…

I am not writing a post today, because I do not feel like doing what I ought to. Writing comes easy to me, as easy as thinking. Sentences pour out of my mind without any effort at all. I have never had writer’s block. Writer’s block would be as fo…

This didn’t really settle into my mind until today, when I was outside the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley, I looked out over the bay and saw the skyline of San Francisco partially enshrouded in fog. We got back from Alaska on New Year’s Day,…

We arrived here on December 23rd. We left for SFO a little later than we had intended, and there were no spaces in the regular long term parking lot. We ended up in the overflow lot in the rain, worried that we’d miss our flight. When we arrived a…

We’re going to Juneau, Alaska, where my sister and her family live, tomorrow morning. I’m super grumpy right now, because I’m nervous about missing our 7 am flight. Fortunately, we have the whole day to pack. I’m thinking I’ll blog my Juneau trip,…

I’ve been using Beeminder to track my goals lately. With Beeminder, you set a goal, then you pledge a certain amount if you fail to meet that goal. The site is a data nerd’s playground, with lots of really cool charts to show where you are in your…

Continuing with the question of interestingness, I’m trying to think of the characteristics that would make a blog post interesting. Obviously, it needs to be interesting to me, but what I’ve found from years on Twitter is that what is interesting…

This placeholder post attempts to fulfill the minimum requirements of the blogpact. Update (7 December 2012): I wrote this post a few days ago, as a sort of example of what the minimum blog post could be. Then, I posted to the blogpact list, askin…

In the mid-oughts, like everyone else, I had a blog. Actually, I had three blogs. I didn’t post to it very often, but when I did, I often posted the sorts of things one now posts to Twitter. Sometimes I posted photographs or short essays. Mostly, …