Published January 15, 2004 | 
Maybe You Could Move There
A blogger in Massachusetts reports:
A friend writes, “On January 10, during the day, the coldest temperature that Spirit found on Mars was -15 Celsius. That’s 5 F. It’s actually colder here than it is on Mars.”
I know all my friends and family back east are huddled around the fire, hoping to survive. But even though we’re having warm weather out here, I’ve had strep all year. I spent the first four days of 2004 flat on my back. From the fifth until yesterday I was doing OK–at least making it to work, even if I was losing my voice. Yesterday it hit again. Hard.
There is no point in having nice weather if you’re too sick to enjoy it.
Published January 14, 2004 | Published January 14, 2004 | Published January 14, 2004 | Published January 13, 2004 | Published January 9, 2004 | Why, Yes, I Am Nasty
At this moment, it is 60 degrees in Silicon Valley and 6 degrees below 0 in Binghamton. Six below zero. Six below zero. And people here were complaining because it’s cloudy.
Published January 7, 2004 | Published January 5, 2004 | Published January 4, 2004 | Published January 1, 2004 | The Cultural Hegemony of Eastern Standard Time
You know how they count down to the New Year out here in the Pacific Time Zone? They rerun the New York City Times Square countdown. I swear its true. We don’t even get our own celebration. We get a hand-me-down from New York.
This is adding insult to the injury of all that snow-covered Christmas imagery, which definitely does not reflect the reality of late December in Silicon Valley. Some people decorate their yards with plastic snowmen. Some even have plastic snow capping their fences and strewn in artistic faux drifts. Just painful, especially given the blooming roses next door.
But that’s OK. Come February, when you’re huddled inside your car, inching through a sleet storm, I’ll be looking at orchards coming into blossom.
Happy New Year, friends and family. May your year be filled with love, health, joy, and prosperity.