Niniane's Blog

(Edited. Note this conversation is from 2005.) With my coworkers. We're having a conversation about bonds and stocks. Jordan: [explain...

me: Tom, who wears the pants in your relationship? Tom: She does. She has the pants and the belt. Peter: Oh no! At least get the belt bac...

I started to prune my roses today. Peter kept me company, working outside on the black wrought table and chair, while I was pruning. Halfwa...

Today we get a report that this email: > Date: May 3, 2005 5:03 PM > Subject: Running late > > Be there for the meeting as soon ...

me: [reading a press article praising my team's accidental feature leak as a brilliant strategy for trickling out the word slowly] They ...

From Shanidar , a story about a man who was a rich noble in a futuristic alien world but who decided to abandon his wealth and live with nea...

me: "So I hear that Mom is advising you every day to dump your girlfriend." Tom: "Yeah." me: "Aha, now you are in t...

I am once again taking my body for granted and not sleeping enough. It's 3:45am and I'm working. I'm going to sleep 5 hours an...

In China, this January, in a cab with my entire family. I'm due to fly out the next morning at noon. My mom, lamenting: We only have on...

A lot of conversations tonight. I'm still at work and it's 1:30am! But it's not due to working late. It's due to staying ...

Apparently all spiders in the US are harmless except for black widows and brown recluses. How can you tell whether a spider is a brown recl...

I just got bitten by a spider, for the first time in my life. I was sitting in my cubicle, working, and my wrist suddenly experienced a shar...

Chris: The cleaning staff threw away some of my stuff. me: Like what? Chris: One of my half-used candles. me: You brought candles a...

Sitting in bed in our lavish Bangkok hotel room, typing away. It's been 5 days since we left Mtn View (a bit confusing due to time diff...

We launched today. desktop.google.com . We had a betting pool at work on the number of downloads on the first day, and so far I'm cl...

I am looking into owning a pig as a pet. I was hoping to get a pig that is 9 pounds, that I can carry around in a bag. Like in this pictur...

I have some kind of disorder where I don't want to go to sleep. Like right now. I came home instead of partying in SF because I haven...

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Todd's wedding tonight. It was my favorite of the weddings I've attended (sorry Mingjing). They wrote their own vows. Todd said, ...

My team dynamics have become highly dysfunctional. One coworker is so angry that he has refused to work with us in the past few days. But t...