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Viva la Mamma? Motherhood, Menopause & Culture

January 8, 2012

I’m a US citizen, but I lived and raised my daughter Rossella (now 22) in Italy for 17 years. I left Italy in 2008 while Ross was at boarding school in India, and subsequently separated from my Italian husband (we were already geographically apart – he did not follow me to the US). My daughter is [...]

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Dad’s Funeral

September 3, 2011

I didn’t take many photos – too much else to deal with. Ruth asked if I wanted to speak and I supposed I did, but wasn’t sure what I was going to say. I work best to deadlines, so I pulled a few notes together in the car on the way to the crematorium. What’s [...]

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My Dad’s Death

August 18, 2011

I haven’t been good at long-form personal communication in the last few years, partly for lack of leisure, partly because, well, these years have been rough on many fronts (outline here). But this seems like a time when telling everybody everything at once will be more efficient, and perhaps easier on me. My father, Al [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: May 15-22, 2011

May 22, 2011

YouTube – Visualizing Latency with Heatmaps  # The Twitter Diaries: April 24-May 15, 2011 # I would not have imagined that any short string of characters could fail to find something on Google, but I was wrong. # Dear @adobe : Just NOW downloaded and installed a trial of your design suite. When I try [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: April 24-May 15, 2011

May 15, 2011

@ruperthowe Didn’t get to keep it. # …and just to wrap it all up with a bow: New Videos: The Gregg Performance Series # @smithnigelw <wince> Sorry about the wait, glad you finally got it! #DTrace # @ryancnelson Do we have a location (we may have quite a bit of beer in Joyent fridges – [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: April 6-24, 2011

April 24, 2011

“God made us a different color for a reason and should be honored by not marrying outside of the race that God picked”  # @jlb13 I assume they are being ironic, but maybe not… #sigh # the art of transforming nothing into something. Every good thing that has happened to me can be traced back [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: Mar 20 – Apr 6, 2011

April 7, 2011

Even tho my profile states that I work for Joyent, FB keeps showing me ads titled Work at Oracle? #FAIL # The Twitter Diaries: Mar 5-20, 2011 # But not in a Disney way  # @edsai that may be taking hard-core geek too far #node #fedramp #csa # @edsai That, we all need tattooed on [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: Mar 5-20, 2011

March 20, 2011

billblum @DeirdreS Seriously, I’ve wound up using it so often, it’s as if #Dtrace provides all the insight I never knew I always needed. # nmar @deirdres ottimo, grazie! # hdibani RT @DeirdreS Seriously, I’ve wound up using it so often, it’s as if #Dtrace provides all the insight I never knew I always needed. [...]

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The (Previous) Bombing of Tripoli

March 19, 2011

Reading the news today that US forces are bombing Tripoli brought on a quirky memory, almost completely unrelated to today’s events. Last time the US bombed Tripoli, in 1986, I was on a study abroad year in Benares, India. I had chosen to live in Vijayanagaram Bhavan, the headquarters of the College Year in India [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: Jan 23-Mar 5, 2011

March 5, 2011

~this date in 2003: Teenagers and Cellphones Standard Equipment for Italian Adolescents # ~this date in 2003: Largo al Factotum Why People Think I Know Opera # 2007: Guys, women don’t come to tech confs [because] were tired of trying to have conversations w your bald spots  g # .@davewiner: an old article of mine [...]

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The Twitter Diaries, Dec 30, 2010 – Jan 23, 2011

January 23, 2011

It’s that time of the month in which I crave chocolate. Fortunately, the Tim Tam elf visited recently. – 12/30/10 17:54 New glasses. I find if very difficult to take a good self –  portrait with the iPhone. Or at all.  - 12/30/10 18:00 Getting to know (aka playing with) the new camera totally counts [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: Dec 7-30, 2010

December 30, 2010

Getting set to video stream #nodecamp next Tuesday, so that those who can’t be here in person can attend online. Details soon. # @NomdeB Everything old is new again – including, perhaps, us. # Friday evening, time to rock out… Italian style – Lucio Battisti – Dieci Ragazze  # @rod11 We should do a Google [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: Nov 14-Dec 7, 2010

December 11, 2010

@craigmorgan I’d love to do it for more than just us, but, while cheap, my guerilla video does have some costs and I do need to eat. # @mtuckerb @NomdeB Agree on that, too. If I were a conspiracy theory type, I would say it’s even designed to create sheep-like voters… # Ready for the [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: Oct 30-Nov 14, 2010

November 14, 2010

@tomcoates Yeah, we’re kinda stupid that way. No memory, short-term or long-term. # .@bcantrill I have long wanted to video my four Bs – @brendangregg @bcantrill Ben and Bonwick. All at once. Might require 8 cameras. # Hmm, first time I’ve gotten an expertise request through LinkedIn. Yes, I do have some. # … wait [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: Oct 14-30, 2010

November 2, 2010

YouTube video: When did you choose to be straight? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJtjqLUHYoY # @ATTJenn Thanks, the confusion was mine, tho it’s puzzling why AT&T wd send a disconnect notice to tenant from 6 mos ago # @NomdeB The problem isn’t lack of ideas, but lack of energy to carry them out. # @NomdeB Both are the assumed [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: Sept 29-Oct 14, 2010

October 14, 2010

a new 3.4 billion-pixel image of the painting allows for an amazingly detailed look at an old master’s work # Its a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.  - words from a true American hero # Here’s a final word for those who went to #ghc10:  # wasn’t Dilma [...]

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Sinus Update

October 14, 2010

…for those who are terribly concerned about the state of my head. Thanks to all who wrote or called with support and encouragement. Though I’ve had in-person support when it counted most through this ordeal, I have spent a lot of time alone in my apartment, not feeling well enough to go out for company [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: Sept 11-29, 2010

September 29, 2010

All in all… # @alanc Thanks; a nice evening of good French wine would help, and I can probably arrange that even here in SF, and very soon… # @pfuetz Thanks! # @davest @alanc Love to! Always like to learn wines w local experts. Had a long hymn to Oregon pinots at GHC last year [...]

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The Mother of All Sinus Infections

September 18, 2010

Note: If you are squeamish about surgical procedures and pain, there are parts of this you really don’t want to know about. Part 1: early-mid July, 2010 I’ve been suffering from sinus infections for at least 25 years, perhaps s a result of living much of my life in very polluted environments (Bangkok, Pittsburgh, Milan). [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: Sept 4-11, 2010

September 11, 2010

follow me on Twitter I guess I’m having a 2nd childhood: my home is full of bright colors, robots, Legos, stuffed toys, comic artwork, Christmas lights… # The Twitter Diaries: Aug – with photos of the closure of MPK, and a couple of famous Solaris faces – and a robot! # RT @michellefabio: Well duh [...]

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