An early memory
Submitted by ParU on Wed, 10/01/2003 - 11:34am. Beautiful
So I figured I'd share a story about my baby daughter. When she was very young and first learning to talk she'd often 'make up' words to fit what she was talking about. (flashlight. She looks at me quizically and says (with a note of triumph in her voice) flashnah!. And she's thrilled that it goes on when you push the switch.
1 June 2003
Submitted by eve on Mon, 06/02/2003 - 10:23am. Beautiful
"There are so many people working on solving small problems. I figure if we all worked together to solve a big one, the little ones would just fall into place."
"And I still think it's ridiculous."
"I'm not talking about defeating entropy, I'm talking about making it our bitch."
--Two guys in line for Invertigo at Great America

Sorry for the lack of updates lately, I've been netless chez moi.
16 March 2003
Submitted by eve on Mon, 03/17/2003 - 10:55am. Beautiful
"..Basic conversation, you know, where are you from, what do you do, and he says he's an executive at a major beer company. And I said, 'Really? I like beer, which company are you from?'"
"That's totally illegitimate! That's so illegitimate. You were trying to connect on a professional level based on the fact that you're an alcoholic! That's like someone saying 'I'm an author' and you saying 'Oh, I can read.'"
"Yeah, only the author would have to turn out to write for Reader's Digest, because this guy turned out to be a vice president at Coors."
--Two guys eating pizza at Jupiter.
5 February 2003
Submitted by eve on Wed, 02/05/2003 - 11:34pm. Beautiful
"Ah, 1999. *whiny voice* 'I'm a programmer! I program in Flash!' *normal voice* Let's see you write an OS in Flash, asshole."
--A guy talking to a girl near the fountain on Kroeber plaza
20 December 2003
Submitted by eve on Mon, 01/20/2003 - 2:29pm. Beautiful
"I'm going to ask my landlord if I can get a bird. And then I'm going to get an ostrich."
--A guy at Juan's Place
6 June 2002
Submitted by eve on Thu, 06/06/2002 - 11:40pm. Beautiful
"So really what we have is a friendship firmly founded in mutual blackmail?"
--A girl to the guy she was sitting with, a few tables over on the patio at Raleigh's.
21 May 2002
Submitted by eve on Wed, 05/22/2002 - 9:23am. Beautiful
"Thanks for being such a great friend."
"Thanks for being such an insincere person."
--Two guys at Yali's Cafe
29 April 2002
Submitted by eve on Tue, 04/30/2002 - 2:04pm. Beautiful
"It's the perfect manner of exploitation labor. Make the grad student apply for the grant to pay for the work, have the grad student do the work all summer, and if the grant goes through, the grad student gets paid. Otherwise, it's his own fault for writing a bad grant proposal, but he doesn't find that out until after he's worked all summer. The university is so totally screwing me."
--A guy in Yali's cafe
23 March 2002
Submitted by eve on Sun, 03/24/2002 - 8:18am. Beautiful
"Tom can go to hell, for all I care."
"When I does, I hope he takes his cat."
--A woman and a man in line at the Cheese Board Pizza Collective
Just so you all know, I'm headed home for spring break, and my net access will be a little sporatic. I'll update as best I can, and I promise that regular updates will resume in a week. A bientot.
24 February 2002
Submitted by eve on Mon, 02/25/2002 - 12:34pm. Beautiful
"I just said, 'I'm going to be gone for a week, take what's yours before Tuesday.' And when I got back, she'd not only taken her stuff, but she'd taken every gift she'd ever given me. Seriously, like, pictures out of the frames. And stuff that was mine, but she liked. She took my comforter! My nice down comforter, and she took my marble chess set, and she doesn't even play chess."
"That's why you broke up with her, isn't it? Because she couldn't play chess?"
--Two guys at Safeway