The Chronicles of Charlie: The Assassin Who’s Not Very Good At His Job
Dan | September 28, 2006
I just discovered the Essex Green, and my life is much better for it. I won’t go into how I discovered them, as they were sitting around on my Itunes and I hadn’t listened for one reason or another (100 GB of music will do that to you). But, “Everything is Green” [...]
Dan | September 26, 2006
I’m sitting at school, working with Excel for a little freelance job I’m doing. I hate Excel - it is currently taking five minutes to save a (monster-sized) file, and that’s kind of annoying. I was hoping to get the file sent off by this afternoon, but the saving problems are going to make it [...]
Dan | September 25, 2006
Light blogging for a bit, because my writing time has been taken up with both work and school. But, I would like to note that San Francisco is still as crazy as ever. I was coming back from a run the other day, and at the intersection of Oak and Pierce, three homeless folks were [...]
Dan | September 20, 2006
I’m sitting in my fave cafe, and there are three people behind me conducting a job interview. Kind of amusing. Maybe someday I’ll get big enough to conduct interviews for help at a trendy SF place.
Oh yeah, and it’s Wednesday morning, and the place is packed. Either everyone works at home, there are more grad [...]
Dan | September 19, 2006
Went to see Ratatat last night at the Great American Music Hall. Not too much to say about the show - they started off super-strong, then called up this old hippie guy to play an idiotic acoustic song, then lost all their energy and completely lost the crowd - but that crowd was entertaining. When [...]
Dan | September 18, 2006
I was clicking around this morning and came upon an ad for the Travel Channel - the theme was “Be a Traveler,” with the subtext that if you watch the Travel Channel, you’re a traveler.
Uh, no. You’re a traveler if you get off your ass and go somewhere. In order to get the Travel Channel [...]
Dan | September 17, 2006
Well, that’s annoying. In order to prevent the comment spammers from nuking my bandwidth allocation for the month, I had to take down Guy Stuff. I’ll have to put it back up in some other CMS, but I’m not feeling really up to it right now. And, I screwed up my back somehow, so I’m [...]
Dan | September 12, 2006
Well, that took ‘em a while. The comment spammers have finally discovered Guy Stuff. I’m bummed - I’ve been meaning to move that particular one over to Wordpress for a bit, but the CMS I used (Rodin) doesn’t have a clean cross/upgrade path, so I think I’m going to lose the comments when I [...]
Dan | September 12, 2006
One of my assignments for my novel-writing class this week was to write a novel in two pages. The idea is to get at what really makes a novel a novel. Complete characters? A compelling plot? Whichever. I’m posting my take on it down below. Doing this was pretty darned hard - it took me [...]
Dan | September 12, 2006
There was a lot of writing and talk yesterday of the “where were you when the Towers fell?” variety, and my story is kind of good, so I thought I’d write it down. I woke up the morning of September 11, 2001 in Eger, Hungary, three weeks into a six-month journey around the world. I [...]
Dan | September 6, 2006
I’m going to Durham for a wedding this weekend, so not much writing here….
Dan | September 5, 2006
As part of my novel writing class, I volunteered to bring in the first 15-25 pages of a novel for everyone to rip up. So, tonight I opened up the file of the thing I’ve been working on for most of the summer and started going through it - a rewrite before everyone tells me [...]
Dan | September 5, 2006
I was walking down Church Street today, just next to where the J train stops. As I walk quickly, I passed up a guy who was dressed in fairly conservative Muslim-ish garb, and had a very long beard. I pegged him (as most would) as a pretty religious guy. As I walked by, he stubbed [...]
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