Just heard Cake live. I liked it because they sounded the same as their albums but better and I got to see a bunch of funky looking musicians doing their thing. It was a rare case in that I actually liked them more after seeing them play. Good, weird stuff.

We're going to CAKE with EVAN tomorrow. Nice.

Nice.

I just looked at the bloggercam that Shellen set up and I see my green bag in the lower right corner. Yup. That's my bag right there which means I left my stuff at work. Damn.

Star Trek Apartment: "Originally a Studio Apartment but after just over 3 years it has been transformed into the interior of the starship Enterprise." Found via ronincyberpunk.

I got some kind of super-cloth for wiping down the kitchen counters at Trader Joe's last weekend. It is a rectangle of orange fabric but it is somehow super so I use it every night to wipe things down. In this manner, I hope to get ahead in life.

Our Blogger crew has moved, along with some other Googlers, to a ridiculously futuristic new facility. I think before Google took it over, it was Starfleet Academy.

This is a very geeky and original t-shirt graphic via saladwithsteve. Funny.

Bot A Blog: Free blog update notifications by e-mail: "Bot A Blog is a free service where 'bots' send you simple text e-mails when your favorite blogs are updated and new entries are added."

[ Virginia Is For Lovers ]: "Biz Stone didn't actually stand me up on my radio show, it turns out. His character remains unimpeachable."

Handmade: A Craft Blog. "Explore, appreciate, create."

Talking Toilet Paper is here. Now if we can just engineer a TP-to-blog protocol, the future will have arrived.

How Not To Get Fired for Blogging

Ripped from the headlines, How Not to Get Fired Because of Your Blog. Also, my next book Who Let The Blogs Out? (Available November 1st 2004 from St Martin's Press) will feature a section on this very subject called "Blogging off the Company Pier." There are ways to go about blogging at work and there are ways to get fired for it. A tiny bit of forethought goes a long way.

Note to self: Inexpensive ceramic bowls placed in microwave and set to "baked potato" will violently explode blowing the newly dented door open and sending clay shrapnel careening throughout the kitchen. It is loud and startling. I'm new here.

What To Do When Your Mom Discovers Your Blog is helping a lot of bloggers sort out family issues surrounding their blog. This week we're gonna tackle another issue that bloggers need to know. Knowledge is power.

Is there a bloggie category for best blog post? There should be.

"Organica.us crawls weblogs and makes statistics on what's popular right now, related sites, who links to who, which tools are being used, webservers being used for weblogs and so on."

In the future, our online lives will take the form of a lucid dream. We are conscious and yet still capable of impossible feats. Like Neo in The Matrix. Theoretically.

Neighbor: The dog’s in the closet so he won’t jump up on you.
Me: Let him out, I don’t care if he jumps up on me.

Yeah. Next time I will not say that. It’s a dull ache.

I'm sitting on a beanbag in my empty place writing with my iBook and wondering why I didn't drive to the Googleplex were everything is ergonomically evaluated, all the technology is superfantastic, and there are convienience store sized kitchens around every corner. And massage chairs. And gyms. And large rubber spheres. Maybe my mind knows something that I don't.

Snowboarding Army Men

A guy down the street is moving out and wants to sell his year-old washer and dryer for $150. If I can figure out how to get his w/d into my loft, a dream will be realized.

Technotofu: East Bay vegan vegetarian recipes restaurants San Francisco SF Bay Area: "Technotofu--all up in your zeroes and ones, y'all."

Crafts Magazine Free Creative Projects: Winter Window Snowman Card. Designer: Livia McRee.

Blueberry Fields Forever: "Downeast Maine holds treasures of all kinds, the bountiful wilderness and the plentiful sea." My little sister started a blog!

Nice. I took a Google beanbag home from work to use as temporary furniture but it frightened the cats. Maybe they know something I don't about the nature of beanbags and their real intentions? I will mull it over on my commute.

Audblog makes blogging as easy as leaving a voicemail. You should try it, it's good stuff.

My first day at Google was mostly orientation, setting up stuff, and meeting people. My new work email is biz@google.com which is neat and I have access to tons of really cool internal stuff. Eric told me to watch out for Segways blasting around corners and I kept getting lost in the Googleplex but I survived. They gave me a ThinkPad with XP instead of a PowerBook with X but I was able to muddle through. My ID picture is really bad--crooked glasses and a confused look on my face. Whatevah.

Watch Las Vegas tonight on NBC with Vinny and Paul from the Invisible Man series. Good stuff!

Blog Statistics - Length of Stay: "... the average reader spends 96 seconds reading the average blog."

Christian Walters has a great review of Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content over at Bookslut. I like the review because it describes the book exactly as I was hoping it would turn out. Nice!

I’m sitting on borrowed patio furniture in my empty new place in San Francisco. It’s raining and I hear wind chimes. Are they actual wind chimes or are the raindrops trying to communicate with me from the future through some kind of enigmatic water song? This is a question I leave unanswered as I attempt to set up a makeshift office for tomorrow. There’s a book I’m supposed to write.

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Nebraska is plush. I’m in a Country Suite in Lincoln, NE. There’s an internet connection, laundry, gym, and a really nice room. A far cry from yesterday’s Knights Inn (Indiana) with the overly friendly Iraqi manager: “I am from Iraq but I am catholic. F***ing Sadam. I hate him.” I believe you, where’s my room? I didn’t audioblog last night because I was too weirded out. Okay, I drove all day and I am psyched for this clean looking shower. Also: today is my little sister’s birthday: Happy birthday Sofie!

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I'm going to have to have a belated Halloween because I was emptying my apartment yesterday instead of watching old scary movies. I'm supposed to be on the road now but it turns out that all those cupboards in the kitchen had stuff in them! Leaving for real in a few hours.