The Chronicles of Charlie: The Assassin Who’s Not Very Good At His Job
Dan | August 31, 2009
I put all my books-I-read in the Goodreads feed to the right, more to keep track than for anything else. You’ll notice that Popco got the full enchilada of five stars. It’s good. Really, really good. It’s rare taht I stop in the middle of a book and think something like [...]
Dan | August 24, 2009
I just realized that it’s almost 2010. Odyssey Two year. The whole aughts are nearly done. I think this is affecting me more than the Y2K change, in the sense that I’m weirded out by the whole thing.
Dan | August 21, 2009
People ask me for directions all the time - I guess I just have that kind of face. Usually it’s something normal: “How do I get to Coit Tower?” “Where’s Haight and Ashbury?” “Can you help me find Chinatown?”
Yesterday, I was biking back from work on Grove Street, and a large red [...]
Dan | August 12, 2009
Holy crap. I just got it. Maybe blogging is the way to learn how to do everything!
Dan | August 12, 2009
I have an Optimus Prime figure that I got for a birthday a couple of years ago. There are two major differences between this one and the old Optimus Prime from my youth:
1) This one contains no trailer, and thus no Autobot base or Roller.
2) This one is very hard to transform.
I’ve been trying [...]
Dan | August 4, 2009
Referencing Kalab’s comment below, I’m warming up and writing more, so I thought I’d note the perfect way that my day started. See, I’m out of milk right now, which means that I can’t make
1) Cereal
2) Eggs
And yesterday for breakfast, I had my other option - an English muffin with butter and honey. [...]
Dan | August 3, 2009
I spent a little bit of time last night attempting to watch The Life Aquatic. I can’t say that I enjoyed it - how often can you really enjoy a film where you fell asleep during the pirate scene? But it got me thinking - what is with Wes Anderson? I dug the [...]
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