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Who I am

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I am being very, um, non-hurried about creating/updating my bio page, so for right now I will do an entry that should bring new readers up to date.

  • I am married to a guy named Darin.
  • We have the two cutest children ever. I know you think you know cuter children; you may even be the parent of children you think are cuter. Sadly, you are wrong: we got ’em.
  • I went to high school at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in San Francisco. Drop a line if you’re a fellow alumna.
  • I went to college at Stanford University. I majored in Linguistics. I have never used my degree, which is not to say it was a waste of time. I don’t think it was.
  • I worked at Apple Computer as a technical writer. This is where I met Darin, though we didn’t start dating until after he had already left the company. Not that propriety ever stopped anyone else, trust me.
  • I got an MFA in Film from USC.
  • Darin works on Safari. You can read more about it on his co-worker Dave Hyatt’s blog.
  • I have a sister. She’s married and has two kids who are almost the exact same ages as mine. What are the chances?
  • Darin is also the eldest of three brothers, and all three of them work for Apple Computer. This sets some sort of record, or at least sets the stage for several of the weirder prophecies in Isaiah. No, really.

Comments

  1. Isaiah? Really? I’m not all that Biblically learned. You’ll have to point it out to me. I love weird things like that.

    Stanford? I should’ve known. I’ve got serious brain-envy going here.

  2. Errr, um…I picked Isaiah just because Revelations has been SO overused. I actually can’t tell one OT prophet from the next. Once I was past the narrative stuff and into the prophets — yuck. I hied me over to the NT pronto. And in the NT, once past the Gospels and the bit about what the Apostles did afterward and you get into the Letters? Fuhgeddaboudit. Bo-ring. Give me people doing stuff, every time.

  3. Your essay about why web journals suck is simply paranoic. It made me sick. Utter B.S.

    Ta-ta,
    Miki

  4. Not that I need to tell most readers this but…

    In the entire history of the Web, no one has ever taken a comment from someone with a “hotmail” address seriously.

    Just so you know.

  5. Is it ok to take MSN addresses seriously? 🙂

    Hey, Miki. Why don’t you chill a little? The web journals essay is what’s known as an opinion piece. I might not agree with every line of it but that’s why it’s not my opinion.

    Even if you take it as gospel truth (redundancy intentional), she’s not saying that your web page sucks. Then again, maybe it does.

  6. You know, I read that essay a long time ago when I first started reading your journal. And I think it has a lot of good advice. But I’ve never understood why you gave it that title. I just don’t get it.

  7. To quote Diane: ‘I wrote “Why Web Journals Suck” because I was inspired by CJ Silverio’s essay “Why the Web Sucks.”‘

  8. Subject: Angel on the WB. I find it interesting that the character developement is spiraling downward. There is one character however, that the show has never developed. A season ago the hottest blonde “Anne” was running a teen shelter, and Angel gave her 8 million bucks at the end of her second episode that season? Anyone know, what gives?

  11. God you’re an idiot. I can’t believe someone really wastes time writing this crap. And to think you are a college graduate. Shows what a joke “higher learning” is…

  13. Got here through “Why Web Journals Suck,” which was linked-to in a recent Metafilter thread. As have many readers, I initially felt strongly implicated. But then I was struck unexpectedly by a thought: “This is really good advice.” I’ve enjoyed milling around your site, too; thanks a lot.