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Our family cat, Magic, died two weeks ago when we were in Chicago. I just found this out today. I wasn’t particularly attached to him, as he was a very large and boring orange tabby cat — bigger than our dog (a bichon frisŽ, Marcel). But still, I find it weird that no one thought to tell me. I went to the LA Farmer’s Market in Fairfax for the first time today and had some gumbo ya ya at a…

God damn. I just talked with this French guy in Japan for a story that I was asked to essentially redo because their stringer didn’t do a good enough job on it, and I was told to record it, and the damn thing didn’t record right through the phone. Normally this wouldn’t be a problem, but they’re doing it in transcript style, instead of normal news style. I only hear my voice. Fuck. It’s 7 pm, and I have to…

Who wants to go see Raiders of the Lost Ark in downtown Oakland on Friday (8 pm) with me for free? Oakland Film Office Summer Festival

You rock.

Today after going to do an interview in the Mission district today I had lunch at a Mexican restaurant on 18th/Mission. I almost didn’t go in, because I saw it was so crowded, but then I realized that everyone was watching a Mexican soccer match on TV and thought that it would be interesting to watch with them. I sat down and observed. It was Guadalajara vs. Toluca (I looked it up, it was a semifinal match — Toluca won…

Things are pretty quiet, given that both Boyk is in LA and Rachel 40 miles to the south. Yesterday I went to a lunch at Buck’s in Woodside with Scoble and Dan Gillmor and some other geeks. Definitely interesting, although Scoble’s son seemed completely bored out of his mind the whole time. Following that, I had a 3 hour battle with Katie Hafner’s computers and trying to install Panther and MS Office 2004, I settled with one copy of MS…

Well, this weekend was busy and fun. Friday night was spent with Aaron, first getting some Zachary’s on College, and then over at Paul Boutin’s place. Besides feeling really out of place by being at least eight years younger than everyone else, I did learn that Salam Pax has a movie deal. And speaking of which, what’s with this six week hiatus? Saturday, following picking up Rachel from the airport, I exchanged Lauren & Josh’s graduation gift for Season 1…

I was informed by my major advisor that I’m not getting honors, even though I went through all the motions and what not (I didn’t make the GPA requirement). Oh well. I’m still glad I did it. So over here at my new digs at B2, I have a colleague called Todd Lappin, who apparently is a big fan of international music as I am. I traded him some Tarkan, MC Solaar, Positive Black Soul and others for some Mandarin…

So far, Business 2.0 is great. Factchecking stories have become my duties, and that’s well — you can imagine how that is. But I’m liking it so far, and I have two postings in the B2Day blog here and here. There are loads of bananas and apricots in the kitchen for the staff today, so that was cool. Last night I volunteered for the pledge drive at KQED which was fairly straightforward. In the volunteer raffle I won a CD…

Thanks to those of you who came all the way up to Glen Ellen for helping celebrate graduation. It’s just now dawned on me that I really don’t have anything hanging over my head. Well, except for that annoying stop-sign ticket that I have to do traffic school for, but other than that, it’s all over. I’m ready to fall asleep. The chili was great (thanks Nate!) and the pies were great (thanks Rachel!) and everything else was great (thanks…