Archive for October, 2010
Storm
I’m still busy, though I haven’t gotten overwhelmed enough to distract myself/procrastinate with some serious blog posts. But I did find this song for you to listen to:
A Month of Flattring
Image via CrunchBase I’ve been using Flattr for just over a month now. If you haven’t heard of Flattr yet, it’s a social micropayment system – an easy way to show people you appreciate their work. There’s no form to fill out or credit card info to enter every time you want to donate a […]
Richer than you think
Last year I made about $14,000. More than half of that went to rent and student loan payments. Sometimes I feel pretty darn poor. But I’ve never made a late payment and I’ve never gone hungry (though I don’t think I can ever eat ramen again). As poor as I sometimes feel, my income is […]
Living with roommates
From Neal Stephenson’s Zodiac: They shut off our phone service so we all had to sit down and thrash out about three months’ worth of unpaid long-distance bills. In the middle of a spirited discussion of who had made seven consecutive calls to Santa Cruz at three in the morning, Ike got up and announced […]
Patience with the patient
You’re probably all so sick of bird pictures that you’ve stopped reading my blog, but if you’re still hanging around, I promise it’ll get better. I’ve had a lot (A LOT) of migraines lately, which makes it hard to sit up, let alone write a real blog post. I’m also pretty busy right now: I’m […]