So I’ve been in San Francisco for about a month (and a week) now, which has how long it’s been since I’ve updated. Busy, busy, busy. If you’re still reading, here are a few bits and pieces from the past month:

• LA is still hot and you have to be silly to live there (but good people keep me coming back).
• Surprise birthday parties are fun to plan, but way more fun to watch go off.
• I’ve switched to a Mac full time — and yet I somehow found a way to max out my 2.16GHz / 2GB RAM MacBook Pro to the point of total doggedness. (Who would think blogging is so demanding? Am I doing something wrong?)
• If you’re in a movie theater and there’s a bomb scare, don’t expect to be evacuated. At least if you’re watching that movie at the Metreon. And to think I might have died watching a Kevin Smith movie… for shame!
• I learned I probably have way too much monoamine oxidase A in my body.
• Engadget is going to start watermarking images. We’ve only done it once in the past, but since literally dozens of sites thought it would be cool to rip off our Zune photo, it’s got to be done. I promise we’ll never do it such that it detracts unnecissarily from the experience.
• Digg is suffering major bloat. After V3 launched search, for example, became almost unusable, but I’m also seeing another strange side effect of the site’s success. Yesterday the Zune was officially confirmed, and no fewer than 50 Zune-related stories were submitted to Digg. Only one story made it to the front page; it was not the official announcement, but a bit of information on the project that was leaked and posted hours before. People are trying to so hard to get their name on the digg front page they’re forgetting the point of pushing up the news.
• Good people are hard to find. Seriously. Ever consider a career in gadget blogging?
• I’ve personally been victim to new Bayestian “literature” attacks, which I highly advise you watch out for if you ever get spam.