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3/30: Jeanie and I tried Diva, a new Indian restaurant in Davis Square.

3/29: Saw the Callithumpian consort at NEC, then met up with Inna at her friend Liz's.

3/28: Drum class.

klong3/22: Hauled Klong to Brookline for the first of an eight-session hand drumming class!

3/20: Celebrated the spring solstice with a 25-mile ride, endingGreen line in a 5-mile race with the Green Line that I won handily. Totalled 435 miles on my bike over the six months of winter. Also bought new bike maps, some books, and Modern Drummer, whose May (!) issue highlights electronic percussion. Topped it all off with Indian food!

3/17: Checked out the New England Spring Flower Show with Inna.

3/14: Thanks to the closing of the Paradise, I got to go to Axis to see one of the strangest pairings ever: Jill Sobule and Warren Zevon.

3/9: In an existential quandry? Ska show at the Middle East, featuring Beat Soup and Steady Earnest.

3/8: Bought myself a Garmin eTrex handheld GPS and went home to N42°20.525' W071°05.911'!

3/8: The City of Boston shut down the Paradise for chronic problems. Hopefully when it reopens, the new owners will know better than to hold early shows, make pople pay cover twice, and charge $6.50 for beers!

3/7: Team event at the highly abnormal Marché Mövenpick.

3/7: Have I mentioned that I've saved about $1600 because I haven't watched television since 1994?

2/26: Birthday luau at Jeanie's.

2/25: Pilgrimage down to Lupo's in Providence to see ska masters the Toasters and the Allstonians.

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OrnothLand II
Do what thou wilt, and it hurt none, shall be the whole of the law.
 Spaces  Newsprint - January-March 2000

Sapient2/21: Orny celebrated five years as a Sapient employee!

2/20: Enjoyed the 60-degree weather by hiking around Belle Island in Richmond's James River.

2/19: ComedySportzFinally got to Richmond, where I and two of my Dargon writers, Jon Evans and Rhonda Gomez, visited a friend's improv troupe at ComedySportz.

Dargon2/18: Since the snows cancelled my flight to DC, I distributed DargonZine 13-2, featuring stories from two brand new writers!

2/18: "That's one crazee muthafugga!" That's what they said at the Linwood when I came in wearing a tee shirt, shorts, and my Tevas in the middle of a snowstorm that dumped half a foot of snow in Boston!

2/15: SapientSapient named the top interactive agency of 1999 in this Adweek magazine article.

2/14: Went to see a production of the Vagina Monologues.

2/10: What does Jamaican beer and Orny's hair have in common? Red stripe!

Dargon2/6: DargonZine began its sixteenth year with the publication of DargonZine 13-1.

2/5: SnackLand run and dinner at Legal Sea Foods with Inna.

2/4: Dinner at Inman's S & S Deli with Inna and her friend Liz.

2/4: Five reasons why SapientSapient is the best e-consulting bet in this article from MSN.

2/4: Big shopping day! Got the Stinky Cheese Man, plus music from the Toasters, TMBG, Janet Jackson, Lords of Acid, and Stan Ridgway!

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2/3: Another coworker outing, this time to the Claremont Cafe, followed by an evening at the Cantab Lounge.

2/2: Indian lunch with coworkers at Ajanta, then photography class with Inna.

2/1: Spent the afternoon painting pots at the Pottery Workshop with coworkers, then Indian dinner with Jeanie at Mehfil.

2/1: Got a great new book on the MySQL shareware SQL database from tech book discounter Bookpool.com.

1/31: Major update to the House of Puggin'.

1/29: Visited Dorchester Heights with Inna before going to her friend Julia's birthday party.

1/28: SapientDespite announcing $275m annual revenue and earnings that matched expectations, being on the cover of Massachusetts Investor's Digest, and a great article in the Globe, Sapient was the biggest loser on NASDAQ today, dropping 28 percent.

1/24: Went to Midori's "Voice & Storytelling" class at Kim's.

1/20: Bought Jakob Nielsen's new book, "Designing Web Usability".

1/13: Winter's first snowfall brought with it subzero temperatures, but it was a great opportunity to do some real ice biking!

1/1: The real first night of the millenium saw Vinny Nobile return to energize Bim Skala Bim at the Middle East with Inna.

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