August 2004 Archives
- Dave Bartols
- Margaret Brunjes
- Misha Cornes
- Holly Gibson
- Fay Ferency
- Valerie Phillips
- Karen Fredericksen
- Simon Walker
- Josh Rosenstock
- Sarah Phillips
- Jenn Guitart
- Kevin Boyd
- Evan Prodromou (Margaret's friend) (found!)
- Kai Quinto
- Mike Rosenberg
- Ken Bobu
- Julie Sullenger
- Miriam Vu (found, then lost again!)
- Rafael Weinstein
- Daniel Pifko (found!)
- David Johnson
- Tom Whittaker
- Ain McKendrick
- Greg Friedman from Microsoft
- Dave Glowacki (check your Friendster mail!)
- Robert Yates, Wheelie Guy
- Andy Turk
- Jim Race
- Dick Rossi
- Tammy Cain Bloomfield
- Stacie Feldman (found, then lost again!)
- Gary Green
- Steve Rich
- John Segal (hidden)
- Leticia Husby
- Linda Schwartz-Wright
- Molly Blaauw
- Diana Lieu
- Eirlys Davidson (found!)
- Sherylle Mills
- Oscar Cruz
- Bertha Garcia (found!)
- Tom Rubin
- Ann S. Lee
- Richard Mainland
- Bruce Friedman
- Molly's friend Monica
- Corey Marnen
- Ashendra Chand
- Peter Wissner
- Taras Kick (found, actually never lost touch!)
- Jennifer Aragon
- Eirlys' friend Kristy
- Steve Fischer (found!)
- Matt Levinson
- Mike Levin (found!)
- Jeff Miller
- Angie Rho
- Jennifer Rose
- Kalieh Honish
- Tom Mellor (found, then lost!)
- Alan Calhoun (found!)
- Marion Ingersoll (found!)
- Thanh Ngo
- Kelly Hyunh
- Donna Herskovitz
- Jennifer Mathews (found!)
- Cindy Ferrier (found!)
- Michelle Moseley
- Jason and Micah
- Soogi (Steve Fleischli's girlfriend's friend)
- Todd Smithline
- Amy Pellman
- Tracy Yosten & Matt Sucherman (found!)
- Peter Johnson, rollerblader from New York
- Josh Adams (from college, lost in L.A.)
- Phyllis Adams
- Chris Panetta ("Are you related to Leon Panetta?" "No.")
- Karin Co
- Chris Karns (found!)
- Paul Zimmerman
- Molly Scales
- Mariela Perez (Ferro)
- Isabel (Izzy) Morales
- Pete Sacchetti
- Jon Kulas (found!)
- Bob Polin (found!)
- Keith Dangleis (found!)
- Jin Kim
- Keiko Aikawa
- Annelise Skor
- Eric Henyey
- Amanda Speicher
- Leslie Ip
- Wes Wang
- John Quilhot
- Brian Daucher
- Makeda Hurd (found!)
- Hugo Restall (found!)
- Doris Del Castillo (found!)
- Lucia Kubiatowski
- Ann Tadajweski
- Dave Kelsey
- Mlle. Boutrit (Lyon, France)
- Veronique Bernard (Lyon, France)
- Vanessa the foosball player
- Josh Finkelstein
- Ethan, with whom I shut off the lake drain to no effect
- Ken (crazy Mountain Camp counselor)
- Brad Huber (Joey, too!)
- Beth Vinopal
- Alison Fish (found!)
- Sara Mann (found!)
- Stephanie Yee (found!)
- Heidi Stewart
- Jon Couchman
- Jason Everett
- Christina Schoolcraft
- Kelly Hill
- Angie Matheson
- Elisha Couchman
- Costa Gaitanis
- Donna Barrett
- Chris O'Connor
- Betty Yin (found!)
- Josh Barney
- Aaron Castillo
- Todd Eckenrode, Eckenridge, Eckenblatt, kid I rode the bus with
- Tony Bartlett (found!)
- Chuck Lawson
- Elisha Santiago
- Chantel Catlin
- Dwight who built the Apple ][ from scratch
- Mike who was good at Joust and whose dad owned Thunderbird Realty
- Tabbatha Childress
- Girl who sometimes rode the bus to Oakland with me on the weekends
- Wes Beach (teacher)
- Wendy and Todd Jasinsky
- Jason Ancheta
- Audrey Miyasaka
- Janet Zlendich
- Jana Rounds
- Lori Paz
- Jeff Clough
- Anne Conlin
- Krista Dahl
- Jennifer Jakabosky
- Erendira Fabian
- Steve Petty
- Anthony Rivera
- Lisa Silga
- Lia Miedecke
Following is a series of articles designed to come up in search results for old friends who search for themselves on Google. If you're not listed, don't fret; it means either that I know where you are or that you slipped my mind and I'll surely add you later.
If you see yourself, hello! Please drop me a line (mike.tsao at gmail.com) and let me know how you are!
Once in the early 1990s I fell asleep on my hand and it went numb for days. I had been having some carpal tunnel problems in the preceding weeks. I'm sure that had something to do with it. Maybe my brain had gotten used to tuning out of the pain so it ignored my hand screaming that it was being starved of oxygen.
The experience was awful. I couldn't make a fist; I couldn't write; I could hardly type. I remember having to sign a couple documents during that time. They looked like I was writing with my foot. Fortunately before I got around to seeing a doctor about it, it had cleared up.
Woot is a really interesting use of RSS. The company sells one product a day, and as far as I can tell doesn't advertise except through their RSS feed. It's a bare-bones shop; no customer service to speak of, no backorders, no rain checks. If you want today's product, order it now. If not, it's gone by tomorrow.
It's like the best of spam (low-cost marketing) without its many problems (lies, cheating, stealing).
Every one in a while you discover something that is so pitifully basic yet also so marvelously productive that it's worth exposing yourself as an Emacs dummy who's been using the editor for years and thus has no good excuse for not already knowing this. For me, this is one of those times. Here is my discovery:
Meta-q word wraps the current paragraph.
In particular, it wraps comments correctly according to whatever comment-delimiting convention you're using (e.g., // or /* */ or /* with a leading * on each new line). I don't know how many comments I've manually wrapped to 80 columns, painstakingly adding the leading * for each line. Never again, thanks to Meta-q!
(And as long as I have you here, you probably know this one too, but in case you don't, control-R in bash searches your history in reverse. Try typing "<ctrl-r> emacs" at a bash prompt for an example.)
A few weeks ago a coworker introduced me to Cygwin's X server. This was in connection with my gripe that there is no dual-DVI USB KVM currently available that doesn't look like an Altair 8080.
"An historic" is incorrect. Here are the rules:
Use "an" before a word that starts with a vowel sound:
an apple
an egg
an icicle
an orange
Use "a" otherwise.
Some of these words start with a vowel sound, and some don't. See if you can tell the difference:
hour
honor
honest
hat
historic
hick
hit of bong water
It's "a historic event." It's not "an historic event."
If you really want to sound sophisticated, though, and insist on the "an," please, at least don't pronounce the "h" sound. "An 'istoric" at least is a proper application of the a/an rule to a defensibly mispronounced word, but "an historic" with the "h" pronounced both sounds weird and violates the a/an rule.
