The Chronicles of Charlie: The Assassin Who’s Not Very Good At His Job
Dan | July 31, 2006
Note: this is a long post, more of a draft than an actual story. I’d like to tighten it up some more, but…hey, it’s my world, right?
The beginning of the San Francisco Marathon was dark – fingers of summer fog-clouds stretching ominous tendrils over the bay at 5:15 in the morning, before the sun had [...]
Dan | July 29, 2006
Went down to the SF Marathon Expo this morning with my friend Seth, who is also running for the first time. We’re both going at about the same pace, at about the same time, and both decided late. His long training run was 24 miles (wow!), as opposed to my 20 - I hope that [...]
Dan | July 28, 2006
As I wrote below, Google’s Adwords site appears to be having some problems - I can’t get into their billing system, and they won’t let me pay them for some ads I’d like to buy. The error page declares that their engineers have been notified of the issue.
The error page has been showing this text [...]
Dan | July 28, 2006
Sit outside at a nice neighborhood cafe.
When your phone rings, come inside to answer it
Talk loudly
Use the phrase “but I was so hung over.”
Goober.
Dan | July 27, 2006
I went by the Sports Basement in the Presidio today to pick up the last few things I needed before the SF Marathon on Sunday. My shopping list was kind of weird:
A little utility belt from Ultimate Directions that holds squeeze bottle for energy gel and has a little zip pocket for keys, etc.
Two packets [...]
Dan | July 27, 2006
If you’re interestd in what I did yesterday, I wrote about it over at Burritophile. In other news, I registered for a Google Adwords account today for some of my freelance ambitions - we’ll see how well it works out. Honestly, I’m a little skeptical, if only because Adwords is currently down.
Dan | July 24, 2006
One of the hardest things about writing fiction (for me) has always been character names. When I try to think of a name, I kind of blank out, and I usually end up stealing names from people I’ve lived with or known in a previous iteration of my life, sometimes moving last names around. This [...]
Dan | July 24, 2006
Gotta love the heat and humidity - I kind of feel like I’m back in Chicago. But, rather than comment on that (I’m sure that the Internet is full of Americans whining about the heat) I’ll note that it’s only a month until I start grad school, I’ve registered for classes, and I’ve had a [...]
Dan | July 20, 2006
I’ve been a fan of The Fart Party for a few months now. I can’t remember how I came upon the comic - either I read about Julia in an article somewhere, or she added me to her Flickr contacts, or both at the same time. Regardless, her work is wonderful: clear, funny, [...]
Dan | July 19, 2006
I met up this evening with an acquaintance of mine who is the older brother of a close friend of mine and a fellow LAHS graduate (class of 1990). He just finished his Stegner Fellowship at Stanford and is now working as a systems guy at Salesforce.com.
We got to talking literature and books, and he [...]
Dan | July 18, 2006
Apparently it’s hot as blazes everywhere in the state (113 in Redding? Wow) and warmy-toasty everywhere in the country. Except here, of course, where it’s a mellow 72 right now and I’ve turned my little six inch fan on low to get just a touch of air circulation while I do some writing.
The heat makes [...]
Dan | July 17, 2006
People who should be run over by trucks:
Anyone who goes to the laundromat, puts a tiny amount of clothing in four dryers when there are only eight working ones, then leaves for over two hours, thus forcing someone (say, me) to have to reach into the dryer and pile her socks, underwear, sports bras and [...]
Dan | July 12, 2006
A few years ago, I was freelancing, and did quite a bit of work for a company that I won’t name. My job wasn’t that exciting - putting together summaries of corporate events - mergers, acquisitions, quarterly reports - as reported on a conference call with analysts. I sat at my computer with [...]
Dan | July 11, 2006
I’m happy to see that the folks at Couchsurfing are back online after a terrible, horrible, no-good very-bad data disaster. Just goes to show that truly good ideas can’t die, I guess.
Dan | July 10, 2006
My friend Aaron works for OpenDNS, which launched today. If you do or don’t understand DNS, it’s worth heading over there and using their service, which is their little way to make the Interwebs that much cooler.
Dan | July 10, 2006
Clearing out the remains of a fabulous weekend!
Spent Friday afternoon in Dolores Park with friends, followed by sangria in the Mission and homemade curry by yours truly
Saturday was a bike ride through the Presidio, donuts with friends, and failed attempts to see first Tilly and the Wall at Du Nord, then Samba Da at the [...]
Dan | July 7, 2006
One of the other reasons I’ve been mellow on writing here is this marathon training thing - I did 17.8 or 18 today, and I’m now completely done, and it’s only eleven in the morning.
Dan | July 6, 2006
I don’t have a Myspace page, although I have a Friendster site that I put together back in 2002 when a friend’s husband send me a request. Never really did much with it, and I haven’t looked at it in a while.
Why would I use MySpace, given that I run this website/log/whatever on my own, [...]
Dan | July 5, 2006
Long break between posts, not because I’m away or whatnot, but…lazy, or not much going on in the Life of Dan (or, at least, not much worth writing about).
I’ll write something decent here tomorrow, methinks.
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