Niniane's Blog

Talking to my 20-year-old little brother. Me: Do you and your friends email each other? Tom: Mainly we IM. Me: What if you're not both o...

Thanks to Derek for forwarding this parody video to me. Also thanks for giving me Paris's book, which I read cover-to-cover. Highly en...

Tonight my brother, mom, and I ate indian food for dinner, on University Ave. My mom is visiting my brother for the time being, to help him...

My car's driver-side window got stuck. I took it to the shop today and left it with the mechanic. Afterwards I went to the caltrain sta...

On the phone with my brother, discussing a person who is getting in the way of medical treatment for our loved one. Me: [describing the late...

I saw this today. It made me forget about the illness crap for a moment. "sudo" is the linux command for running a program as sup...

Someone that I care deeply about might be ill. I won't write about the situation, for their privacy reasons. But I will say that at tim...

The commencement speaker was the Chairman for the National Endowment of the Arts. His speech discussed how public education should devote m...

This weekend is graduation weekend for my brother Tom. Tom and I just came back from a pre-graduation commencement speech. This talk is b...

A sad event occurred several days ago, a parting of ways. All right, enough about that. Photos: Fog lying like a blanket on top of San Fra...

From a while back. Me: I should warn you that when we go out with Li* tonight, he might try to molest you. [* name changed] Megan: What? Me...

On Saturday, I went to a shop in the Mission to buy a shirt for going out that night. The shop sold vintage clothing. It wasn't my styl...

There's something missing, and I don't know what it is. I'm sitting in Omst's high-ceilinged living room in the Mission Dist...

Last night, a few of us met up at Bruno's Bar in the Mission District. I had the following conversation TWICE in a single night: Strang...

Last night's carnival-themed party: The front yard had a muscleman contraption where you try to ring the bell by hitting the target with...

Yesterday, during a work meeting, a sales guy brought up noscruf.org to make a point about targeted advertising. The web site is authored b...

When I worked on Desktop Search, SY held a picnic at his house right before launch. After we each had a few drinks, our PM Nick went around...

My writing buddy JTR and I are doing ScriptFrenzy in June. The idea is to write a 20,000 word screenplay in a single month. That's ri...

Last month Elaine invited me to the movie "The Heavenly Kings". It was the opening movie of the San Francisco International Film ...

I sent my mother tulips for Mother's Day, along with chocolates and a little balloon. The other half of the present is a promise to prov...