The Chronicles of Charlie: The Assassin Who’s Not Very Good At His Job
Dan | October 23, 2009
A slender white guy was talking to a small Latino man. Both were standing over a pile of the Examiner. For those who don’t know, the Ex is the free daily around these parts. The white guy said.
“No, all you gotta do is say ‘read all about it’ and everyone will [...]
Dan | October 19, 2009
I’m not sure if there’s much more to say about the balloon-boy thing, other than that I don’t think it’s much more of a sign of the Apocalypse than I Love New York 2., Rock of Love 2 , or any other Z-list celebrity dating television show that’s on “2″.
The weird thing is, I’ve only [...]
Dan | October 15, 2009
So, I’m going to finally talk here about what comes next. If I was a dedicated, smart blogwriter, I would have spent the past four years (four years? wow) - the time since I last put a novel online - writing about writing and building an audience and doing all kinds of things to [...]
Dan | October 12, 2009
Trying to write with a stiff neck. I slept wrong last night and have been paying for it all day.
On the plus side, I picked some tomatoes, and they’re now simmering on the stove, happily becoming sauce.
Dan | October 6, 2009
I’m sitting in McCarran airport in Las Vegas, on a layover, on the way home from two relatively sleepless nights in Chicago, where I was at a work conference.
I think this is the first work conference I’ve travelled to since going to Internet World in New York City in 1997. Seriously. It [...]
Dan | October 5, 2009
Watching a good friend of mine attempt to find a file using the search in Windows Vista. It’s an impossible task - it took five minutes to find a doc that he downloaded from the Internet.
Times like this, I wonder who designed that OS - it seems like it was made assuming that all users [...]
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