Author: splicer

Chat­ting with today I real­ized that I had to be dragged kick­ing and scream­ing to some of the best movies I’ve seen all year.

Own­ing Mahoney, Marooned in Iraq, The Dancer Upstairs–these are all movies I would­n’t have seen if I did­n’t have to for a work-relat­ed thing I don’t do any­more, and they’re prob­a­bly the three most inter­est­ing movies I’ve seen this year. I prob­a­bly would nev­er have seen The Hours or Phone Booth either if I … Read the rest

You are at 16^th & Rhode Island, doing some­thing
vague­ly resem­bling busi­ness. You are an art­sy
fart­sy for-the-trade-only yup­pie, and
unar­guably the most evil crea­ture in San
Fran­cis­co.

Where on 16^th Street are you? (San Fran­cis­co)
brought to you by Quizil­la

They got me pegged.… Read the rest

It’s an amaz­ing world we live in. Last night I helped a woman in Tehran rid her com­put­er of the lat­est Inter­net worm/virus. It was a lit­tle bit of a pain because appar­ent­ly Microsoft­’s Win­dows Update soft­ware does­n’t work with pirate ver­sions of XP, which thanks to the trade embar­go is what most copies of it in Iran are. But I’m tena­cious and clever and have a faster con­nec­tion, so I was able to be help­ful and walk her through … Read the rest

I love Sinfest

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My bounced-pay­check woes still have yet to be resolved, So I sold my gui­tar so that I could get food and even more impor­tant­ly kit­ty lit­ter. Pawn­shop gave me $50 for it (as a sale—it would have been $40 as a loan), which is not too bad. I bought it for $100 in 1990.

Basi­cal­ly I refuse to take on any new unse­cured debt. You can’t get out of debt by bor­row­ing mon­ey. Also, lets face … Read the rest

plus some­one stepped on my $120 sun­glass­es. Hope­ful­ly they can be fixed, and I’ve had them for three years now (mak­ing them a bet­ter buy than the $5 sun­glasss­es I used to buy every cou­ple weeks), but still annoying.… Read the rest

I have a pass­port! It arrived in the mail today. Took less than four weeks for it to arrive, not bad.

Where should I go first?… Read the rest

Last night Y. report­ed that she received the care pack­age I sent her. Pret­ty good, actu­al­ly: San Fran­cis­co to Tehran in 7 days. So now I’m a con­spir­a­tor in trans­port­ing restrict­ed goods into anoth­er coun­try. The copies of Cool Beans include mate­r­i­al the Iran­ian gov­ern­ment would def­i­nite­ly not approve of – I’m think­ing about the the pho­to in the Lon­ers With Bon­ers inter­view, but I’m sure there are zil­lions more instances. I also sent her Read­ing Loli­ta in Tehran, … Read the rest

All the time I see guys in my neigh­bor­hood walk­ing with their girl­friends and instead of hold­ing hands or hav­ing their arm around the girls waist or shoul­ders, they’re drag­ging this poor girl around by a ham­mer­lock, their arms around the girl’s neck.

WTF? Do some girls think that’s cool? If I were a girl and some guy did that to me, he’d get one warn­ing before I put him in the hospital.

Yuck.… Read the rest

Well, crap, I made zero progress on my Goals for August 15^th and it’s less than a week away now. I gave myself four months and made less than zero progress.

At that time I said I weighed 83 kilos and I could bench­press 55 on a good day. A bet­ter assess­ment would have been 52kg, as I fig­ured out the next day. The goal was to get both num­bers to 70kg.

Last night I went … Read the rest