The Chronicles of Charlie: The Assassin Who’s Not Very Good At His Job
Dan | March 31, 2005
On top of the Website That Will Change Your Life Forever (our guy is still working on the backend), I germinated a pretty cool idea last night, and am working on that in my off-hours, as well. It’s more Web serial writing stuff, with a bit more pressure on me. I’ll have more [...]
Dan | March 31, 2005
Via Ezra Klein, I was lucky enough to listen to the funniest 911 call ever.
Then I thought about it and thanked all of the powers that be that I will never, ever drive my children to Burger King in an SUV.
Dan | March 30, 2005
This has happened to me four times in the past two weeks. I go to the bathroom in the office where I work. The bathroom is shared by the whole floor, so it’s us and about three other companies. I go into the urinal space (there are two on either side [...]
Dan | March 30, 2005
I don’t post about politics much, because there are many people who write about the subject with more enthusiasm than I can muster. I do follow politics, though, and this post caught my attention. I read blogs both conservative and liberal, and I generally like reading Lee’s stuff because he’s a smart, [...]
Dan | March 29, 2005
I just upgraded to Wordpress 1.5 from 1.2, hence the weird look to the site. The archives are back, but the graphics are screwed up. I’ll change that back to how it was over the next couple of days.
Dan | March 29, 2005
1) Go to El Rio for $1 well drink Monday at six pm.
2) Eat a big burrito from Taqueria Cancun an hour into the evening
3) Stay at El Rio until around midnight
4) Eat a taco from El Farolito at 12:30
5) Go to bed at one after washing down two ibuprofen with a quart of water.
6) [...]
Dan | March 28, 2005
Because the discussion below threatened to become the first actual blog debate in Ruminations, I’m going to write about it more, starting with this week’s Surreal Estate column in the Chron.
Last Labor Day, I became stuck in a conversation with a relentlessly boring friend-of-a-friend who had moved to Cupertino for the schools. His [...]
Dan | March 28, 2005
Seriously, Jessa and Michael are an absolute must-read for me these days.
So, why don’t they review me? Should I send them cookies? How do you get the attention of an Internet celebrity?
Dan | March 27, 2005
1) Live 105 is doing a “Music that Jesus would play” weekend, and as far as I can tell they have yet to play anything by the Jesus and Mary Chain. That’s criminal.
2) Holy crap, Kentucky just put the game into overtime…maybe.
3) I had a pretty good story idea today: “The Chronicles of [...]
Dan | March 25, 2005
While I generally agree politically with Mark Morford, and I agree somewhat with the point that he’s making about people being mean (although I think that it’s more closed-off than mean), I really can’t stand the guy’s writing style, which just consists of a bunch of run-on sentences and near-infinite uses of the word “and” [...]
Dan | March 24, 2005
New Ibook came today, and it’s updating itself as I write this from my work machine. Rock!
Update: I have now put in about 13 GB of music, installed a demo non-MS Word word processing program, set Firefox as my default browser, configured a bunch of random stuff, and now I’m typing here just to [...]
Dan | March 23, 2005
I had lunch with some old friends last night, celebrating a 30th birthday. Much of the conversation centered around the cost of living, the price of housing, the stuff that seems to concern everyone in the South Bay these days. Two couples dominated the conversation:
Couple 1) One works in biotech at double [...]
Dan | March 23, 2005
An aside: my archives and categories aren’t functioning properly. I don’t think anyone uses ‘em that much, but…I’m going to try to find time to fix them today. More likely this weekend, though.
Dan | March 22, 2005
I’m about halfway through Hope Dies Last by Studs Terkel. Oh. My. God.
I’ve read all of his books, and it’s fairly obvious that he meant this to be his last work. Studs is telling the stories of the old folks, those who fought the union battles in the ’30s [...]
Dan | March 21, 2005
That’s me tonight. Ivy on the stereo, a clean room, freshly done laundry, and wasting my energy by writing Ruminations instead of working on the ghost story. Yes, I’m writing a ghost story. It’s not scary; one of the main characters just happens to be a ghost.
The only interesting thing that happened [...]
Dan | March 21, 2005
The next big thing I’m writing takes place in San Francisco, and I’ve been spending a lot of time just thinking, looking, and observing this city that I’ve now called home for a year. If you take away the expense, the grit and the dirt, this is the alive city I’ve seen, per capita. [...]
Dan | March 20, 2005
Oh, man. I went to a turducken dinner party tonight. I ate more than I have since Christmas, and everyone started a game that basically revolved around making me snarf. If I was drinking a beer and you could say something that made me laugh enough to make the beer come out [...]
Dan | March 19, 2005
I stayed home last night and wrote a few things–a review for the new website (we’ve got a guy programming our backend now, and it’s taking longer than we thought; we should have a beta launch in maybe two weeks?), and did something with the new novel.
Man, it’s a slog. I think I’m like [...]
Dan | March 18, 2005
1) Don’t start your evening by drinking absinthe–the real stuff from Poland. Ten minutes after taking a shot, I felt like I was beginning a mushroom trip or something.
2) Don’t keep giving the guy visiting from Texas absinthe shots. He’ll start making sheepfucker jokes.
3) Don’t do Irish car bombs in the traditional way [...]
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