http://www.crackingfoxy.com/ en-us 2008-09-29T18:01:47-08:00 http://www.crackingfoxy.com/archives/000528.html (a) Good way to forget that my heart aches (b) Jazz at Ronnie Scott's (c) Tate Modern (d) A Connie Willis tour of London from two former war history majors who don't know my fave science fiction writer but do... Liz 2008-09-29T18:01:47-08:00 http://www.crackingfoxy.com/archives/000526.html Oh wait. They say it's my birthday! 41, baby. Glad I lived this long. I can has 80 more years?... Liz 2008-09-10T05:36:21-08:00 http://www.crackingfoxy.com/archives/000525.html Brain seems to be normal again (well, hah, as normal as mine gets). Spending my birthday weekend with a pal, going out and hearing music, buying CDs, listening to his girl troubles (well, joys and troubles) and forgetting my own... Liz 2008-09-07T02:52:09-08:00 http://www.crackingfoxy.com/archives/000524.html So I went out on Sunday - heard a great ska band in Temple Bar (kind of the Lower Haight of Dublin). Home after a guinness or three, I slipped on some books on my bedroom floor and managed to... Liz 2008-09-03T11:33:38-08:00 http://www.crackingfoxy.com/archives/000523.html Liz 2008-08-29T06:38:58-08:00 http://www.crackingfoxy.com/archives/000522.html From this: To this: To ???... Liz 2008-04-23T15:41:05-08:00 http://www.crackingfoxy.com/archives/000521.html Kayak.com has totally turned things around on their corporate blog. I'm not easily impressed. But: Wow. Pretty keen recovery.... Liz 2008-04-15T21:55:03-08:00 http://www.crackingfoxy.com/archives/000519.html We saw The Magnetic Fields at the Herbst recently (W caught one show, Rob and I saw both nights, other friends came at various times). They were perfect. Ethereal. Sublime. And fucking funny. Utter joy. Go get their new album,... Liz 2008-03-25T23:22:50-08:00 http://www.crackingfoxy.com/archives/000518.html So Kayak deleted their bad-judgement blog post in record time, and the comments on my last entry include a big "whoops" from one of their founders. Go kayak. I'm glad my good feeling about them seems still to be based... Liz 2008-03-25T22:52:37-08:00 http://www.crackingfoxy.com/archives/000517.html ... but seriously, dude. Worst. Marketing. Post. Ever. Kayak.com posted the most bizarre "dumb question" from a user on their corporate blog. The reason I think the question is very very UN-dumb is that the competition (orbitz.com) offers exactly what... Liz 2008-03-21T15:18:25-08:00 http://www.crackingfoxy.com/archives/000516.html Some of this: And some of this: While spending surprisingly few of these: Mission accomplished!... Liz 2008-03-03T21:36:39-08:00 http://www.crackingfoxy.com/archives/000515.html Song Chart! If you know my real name, you know which ones I've done. Hee. Vacation update: Hawaii this weekend, on the ultra-cheap. w00t!... Liz 2008-02-26T16:32:30-08:00 http://www.crackingfoxy.com/archives/000514.html So my beloved and I are between jobs and counting dollars, if not pennies. Thanks to my obsessive nature, we're also flush with airline miles and hotel points. And it's cold and rainy in SF right now. Are our deam... Liz 2008-01-25T15:45:53-08:00 http://www.crackingfoxy.com/archives/000513.html So W and I investigated the consulting thang, and decided it wasn't for us. Maybe next year. I have two interviews lined up and I only resigned yesterday. Nice ego-boost. I'm being crazy-bold and applying for CTO spots, too. I've... Liz 2008-01-17T21:50:28-08:00 http://www.crackingfoxy.com/archives/000512.html My cubicle shelf life is apparently 3 months and 12 days. Who knew? I'm sad, and relieved, and also feeling what I guess is grief for the career I thought existed for me at that company. Kind of like when... Liz 2008-01-17T01:32:59-08:00