Klepopotamus

When I was a freshman at Stanford, there was no greater off-campus pleasure than a trip to Juice Club (now Jamba Juice). Since I didn’t have a car or an overwhelming desire to walk, these trips were infrequent, but always memorable. One […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Since I have a 4 letter Yahoo! id, I used to receive random messages from time-to-time. Not spam, just people who had the wrong address. I generally replied as if I was the intended recipient, embarassing the sender, ccing my coworkers for […]

I don’t really drive very much, since we are a proud one-car family. Most days, I take the train to work. In January, however, a friend of mine let me borrow his car while he was out of the country. The very […]

Throughout most of my tenure at a security software company, I was of the opinion that despite being in a great work environment with great people, security was inherently boring. My reasoning was that in a perfect world, we’d still have video […]