Caterina

Hard work, but I love hard work. And I love creating cool stuff. So woo!

Lady with the pink lungs over here.

I think the best part of quitting smoking is that I don’t have periodic episodes of crabby from not being able to smoke.

Also, having a very small, slow-moving dog doesn’t help.

I didn’t start keeping count until 2002 (I read 103 books that year!) but the best thing was that I’d written down what I read and some brief thoughts about the book in a reading list on my blog—it’s great to go back and look at the notes again, and since I’m a big rereader, I will be able to recollect the books many years from now. This year (2004) I going to only just make 50 books, but work has been insane.

Also, the more you read, the faster you read, which is why I can read so much. And I think not having a TV makes a bigger difference than anything else in terms of how much a person reads.

The main reason is that Rogers, my cell phone carrier, screwed up my data transfer package, and no matter how many times I call, and how long I spend on the phone with them, they cannot fix it.

:(

I could be a much better moblogger!

It would probably only take a half or an hour or something. But it is definitely priority C, and so never gets done!

I noticed when I moved from New York to San Francisco that many of the SF cafes have a kind of 70s wood paneling and spider plant vibe. This is in evidence all over the bay area, but especially in the Haight and in Berkeley. During my very first visit to a San Francisco cafe, a longhaired man came over to my table, and without preamble, began reciting this poem:

If you were going to get a pet
What kind of animal would you get?
A soft-bodied dog, a hen
Feathers and fur to begin it again
when the sun goes down and it gets dark
I saw an animal in a park
Bring it home to give it to you
I have seen animals break in two

You were looking for something soft
And loyal and clean and wondrously careful
a form of otherwise vicious habit
could have long ears and be called a rabbit
Dead died will die want
Morning midnight I asked you
If you were going to get a pet
What kind of animal would you get?

I don’t have a copy of this poem anywhere and so am writing it here from memory, which is notoriously unreliable.

We started out building a different product (Game Neverending) but we’ve lasted 2 and a half years, and aren’t slowing down any time soon! Our current product, Flickr, was begun Dec. 8, 2003, so Flickr is just over a year old, woohoo!