Monochromatic Outlook

NAME A CD YOU OWN THAT NO-ONE ELSE ON YOUR FRIENDS LIST HAS:

Con Repe­tizione, by Con­rad Schnit­zler. Strange Ger­man elec­tron­ic exper­i­men­tal music.

NAME A BOOK YOU OWN THAT NO-ONE ELSE ON YOUR FRIENDS LIST HAS:

The Joy of Hand­set­ting Type by Fred C. Williams. Pret­ty sure about this. Maybe some of my friends share my inter­est in set­ting type by hand, but since my copy says it is #89 of 125 print­ed, I bet none has one of the oth­er 124… Read the rest

Looks like The Weath­er Chan­nel was right. I get to run my first half marathon in the rain. This should prove interesting.

I had a dream that I over­slept. I woke up at 8am and the start­ing gun had fired an hour ear­li­er. I was so angry with myself and sad and wished that I could redo the morn­ing and try again. Then I opened my eyes and real­ized, “It’s still dark!”

I’m up a cou­ple pounds today and my … Read the rest

Stuffed myself full of food? Check
Drank plen­ty of water? Check (but continuing)
Switched to amber lens­es? Check
Put ID, bus pass, and emer­gency cash into zip­pered pock­et of shorts? Check
Packed bag with sweats? Check
Marked bag with race num­ber? Check
Pinned race bib to shirt? Check
Affixed tim­ing chip to shoe? Check
Placed sun­screen, body glide, and heartrate mon­i­tor in con­spic­u­ous loca­tion? Check
Cell­phone on charg­er? Check
Alarm clocks set for 5am wake­up? Check

OK, I guess … Read the rest

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004 – 04/19/12.00.sfc

Pre­mieres Jan­u­ary 2005. sigh It’s TV I don’t have any choice about. I will love it.

I hope the 2‑part “minis­eries” comes out on DVD real soon. I’m a fool itch­ing to part with his money.

God Is God—Juno Reac­tor… Read the rest

From http://www.handwritingwizard.com/

For a graphol­o­gist, the spac­ing on the page reflects the writer’s atti­tude toward their own world and rela­tion­ship to things in his or her own space.  If the inputted data was cor­rect Steven has left lots of white space on the all four bor­ders of the paper. Steven fills up just the cen­ter area of the page. If this is true, then Steven has  a par­tic­u­lar shy­ness toward peo­ple and a fear of mov­ing too fast in any

They have a fea­ture where I can send the race results to peo­ple’s cell­phones (by email actu­al­ly, but it shows up via SMS text message).

I don’t know how much it costs, and I won’t know until after I fill out the whole form, but if you want to know my race time and splits, leave me your cell­phone num­ber AND your mobile provider. Do it here (I’ve made it friends-only) or drop me an email. If it’s not too … Read the rest

All over SF MUNI now there are Big Broth­er-like posters telling us to watch out for any­thing sus­pi­cious. “It’s prob­a­bly noth­ing,” they read, “but why take the chance?” My under­stand­ing is that it’s San Fran­cis­co’s lat­est ploy to get some more fed­er­al mon­ey in their cof­fers: put up Home­land Secu­ri­ty posters and get paid for it.

The one that gets to me though is not one of the MUNI posters, it’s on BART. It shows a young pro­fes­sion­al-look­ing man wait­ing for … Read the rest

dra­cun­cu­lus sur­prised the hell out of me a few weeks back by refer­ring to me, in front of oth­ers, as a super­hero. Not as a fan of super­heroes or as a read­er or even cre­ator of super­hero sto­ries, but flat out called me a super­hero. I was flat­tered beyond my abil­i­ty to express, but it’s stuck with me, and I have kept it in mind as I’ve lived my life and tried to strength­en myself on the phys­i­cal and moral … Read the rest