Archive for January, 2008

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

Birthday Party

Randal’s fantastic photos from my birthday party.

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Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Champagne Sabering

In case you’re wondering, I can save you picking glass fragments out of your walls and wasting a bottle of beer:
The champagne-sabering trick, where with savoir-faire you knock the top off a bottle of champagne with a manly knife, then pour with aplomb?
It doesn’t work with beer bottles.
No, not even the ones [...]

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Monday, January 21st, 2008

Spring, she be sprung

Well, actually, the flowers haven’t even really stopped blooming on Berkeley campus this year. I spent my birthday at the beach by Fort Funston, lying in the ice plants, running up and down the hill with dogs, and playing in the monumental surf. So it’s hard to say what sort of winter spring is springing [...]

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