# 19 May 2003, 07:01AM: Workaround: How do you reference Britney Spears if you don't know how to spell her name? One spam refers to her as "B. Spears."
# 19 May 2003, 07:18AM: Finally, a Label: A Slate writer slams Bill McKibben's Enough, and in passing mentions the Copernican Principle: You Are Not Special. "More precisely, the principle says that, as a matter of statistical necessity, most observers must be 'typical.' So, if a given set of observers believe in a scenario that makes them highly atypical, they are almost certainly mistaken." Useful.
# 19 May 2003, 07:23AM: My Own Private Diaspora: Leonard is considering moving elsewhere in SF. I'm considering moving to SF in the early fall. Nandini's heading to DC for grad school. Sarah might move further into Oakland, Adam and SteveR to New York, SteveS to Japan, Zack maybe-maybe-maybe Montreal, the list goes on. ("And now you live in New York. You imbecile.") I'm quite glad I saw many of these friends this weekend, because who knows?
# 19 May 2003, 09:38PM: Farewell to All That:
My last day. Suddenly hot, as though to impress upon me that May is for flowering and breaking up and moving on and graduating and leaving behind. I tidied shelves and helped customers choose gifts. I'll work a Saturday once in a while, for a while, but now Cody's is like my old apartments on Dwight and Shattuck and 63rd; I wonder what it will be like to go in as a customer now. The nostalgia I've built up from fully living in this town for five years oppresses me as much as the heat.
San Francisco will be colder.
# 19 May 2003, 09:40PM: Performances I want to attend:
Klezmer at the Freight & Salvage and recommended (by an improvisateur) improv.
Also, Cody's Books author appearances in June will include Ursula K. Le Guin!
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