Archive for May, 2005

The Mysterious Oakland Coliseum “Club Meal”

Tuesday, May 17th, 2005

I like to provide Marni with enough New Yorkness in California so that she’s not miserable from all the liberal hippy freaks here. I’ve found that one of the best ways to do that is to take her to an Oakland A’s game when the Yankees are in town, as they were this past weekend.

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The Daughter of the Manager of BFI is an Idiot

Wednesday, May 11th, 2005

Some time last year, I was giving my friend Jared a ride to the train station from work. As we approached a red light at the corner of Shoreline Road and Marine World Parkway in Belmont, the driver of the car in front of us casually threw a handful of trash out her window. Stunned, [...]

Randomly Deleted Journal Entry More or Less Meaningless

Monday, May 2nd, 2005

Last week, I made the annual mistake of installing the lastest version of Norton SystemWorks on my main desktop PC. The next day, my automated backups from the PC to my Linux server stopped working. I got a distressing backup report email that showed that two files were actually deleted from the backup server:
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