To The Man Who Invited Me To A Speed Dating Event

Thanks, but I'm much more interested in slow dating you.

Advice to technology

Things Google Maps should be able to do:

Measure the as-the-crow-flies distance between two points

Things Gmail chat should be able to do:

Allow invisible users to choose select people who will be able to see them when they are invisible (and the fact that they are invisible)

Yes?

**update: I went to maps.google.com and checked out their labs. And yes, there is a feature that allows you to measure the distance between two points. That's better.

Summer's on my mind

Assuming I have the money, here are the cities I'd like to see in "Celebrate: You Escaped the Crucible of Your Afflictions," premiering in my life in Summer 2011.

Napoli, Italy (to see friends)

Crema, Italy (my old haunts)

Marseille, France (to see family)

Oslo/Bergen, Norway (to meet extended family)

Tangier, Morocco

Istanbul, Turkey

Budapest/Prague

A Glimpse of my Friday: Someone Else's Images; My Speech Bubbles.

Nilsen's Law: If you never got called to the principal's office as a student, you will get called down regularly as a teacher.

I jump in it

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So funny. The way he says "package." Then "I jump in it." :)