Timoni West is a web designer in San Francisco.
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It’s spring cleaning time

As one of nature’s instinctive horders, I have to periodically take stock of my belongings and separate the necessary from the nice. Here’s some nice things that I don’t really need, and would like to give to someone who wants them.

A lot of books, including…

• Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s lovely translations of Russian works, including Notes from Underground, Demons, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov and War and Peace.
• Some Norton Critical Editions, like Emma, Persuasion, and a few philosophical tomes.
• Comics like Buffy Season Eight, Whedon’s Astonishing X-Men, Batman: Year 100 and DC Comic’s Kingdom Come.

Lots of DVDs and games, like…

• Spirited Away, Amelie, the director’s cut of Blade Runner, The Royal Tenenbaums, and a special two-disc edition of Citizen Kane.
• Various Playstation 2 games, and a OS X version of Spore.
• A Nintento DS with Mario and Zelda games.

And other things…

• Bike parts, like cranks, toe cages and seats.
• Fancy size-nine high heels I never wear.
• Three courier bags: a small Vaya, a medium Crumpler, and a large Re:load.

First come, first serve.

Whenever you feel like it, call or text me to see if I’m around: 415.238.7020. (Evenings are usually a better bet.) If I am, you can stop by 240 Dolores Street and pick up whatever you’d like.

I’ll also be having a small garage sale Saturday, August 20th, around 11am.

See you soon!

—Timoni

TWENTY YEARS FROM NOW

My mom sent me a box of old scrapbooks and random school papers. One of the more entertaining ones, transcribed here for for your reading pleasure, was fifteen-year-old Timoni answering questions about the future:

Twenty years from now: September 11, 2010

I will be: 35.
I will be a journalist for: the New York Times, Washington Post, US,* or Newsweek, or a foreign magazine.
I will live in: a city (New York, Seattle, Paris, Mexico City)
I will have: one or two kids (if I’m married)
If my career is settled, I will be married
I will eat: Chinese. No matter what.**
I will belong to a health club.***
No, my parents will not live with me!****
I expect to be above-average healthy.*****
Depending on where I live, my surroundings will be semi-spacious and semi-clean.
I will own a ‘57 Chevy BelAir (in baby blue).

*US Magazine? Really?
**Was this a point of contention in my life at fifteen? Apparently?
***What kind of boring questionnaire WAS this?
****I love my parents, but I still think we shouldn’t live together.
*****This is how I figured I must have been answering some sort of questionnaire, as never in my life have I ever stopped to determine what level of average healthiness I plan to be in the future.

Well, I’m not a journalist, and I don’t want a car, but other than that, this list is looking pretty good. Next step: join a health club.

—Timoni

the old timoni.org

I finally moved* over my favorite posts from my old (much more Serious Business) blog to my Tumblr. If you’re interested, you can find them here. They are mainly about design stuff.

*Copied-and-pasted.

—Timoni

Colophon

I am Timoni Grone, a web designer living in San Francisco, CA. I work at Scribd and do freelance work on the side; you can view my online portfolio here and find most other things about me on Google. A lot of my photos are available on Flickr, and you can find out what I’ve been doing recently on Twitter.

I am fond of pop music and comic books, like being snobbish about coffee and beer, and love the Arts & Crafts movement best. From the Midwest to the East Coast to the West, I still remember the coffee shops in Minneapolis most fondly. No other city I’ve been to has had so many stay open so deliciously late.

—Timoni