I said I would try to write in LiveJournal more. But in the last month, the two things in my life that I would call "front page stories" are both things I choose not to comment on. I expect to spill the beans regarding one of these, as well as my reasons for keeping it hush-hush, in a few months. The other is simply not the sort of thing one blabs ( Read more... )

In the past month, I've tried several new foods for the first time in over a decade, if not the first time ever. And I've liked them all ( Read more... )

If you know me, you know that with very few exceptions, I only place bets when I have a positive expectation of winning.

Well, tonight, the Lottery is +EV... sort of.
Lottery officials estimate that the lucky winner could take a cash option payout of $208.3 million ( Read more... )

As I do every year, I've collected my first LiveJournal sentence of each month in 2010 - excepting my usual April Fools Day hoax. I didn't write in LiveJournal very much in 2010, a state of affairs which I have resolved to change, but as a result, when I wrote something, more often than not it was something personal and interesting. I kept the idle ( Read more... )

Rocky casting results are in. Looks like I'm a full-time Riff again! That pleases me greatly. I like looking cool and evil. And I like my cast. We'll have a lot of fun on stage together ( Read more... )

My office had its holiday party today. I work with several guys around my age; most of us got hired out of college within a year of each other. I've been there nine years now, long enough to see many of them get married and have a kid. I expected that to happen to me by now, but I seem to be moving in slow motion ( Read more... )

Have you stumbled in from the Border Cafe in the middle of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and wanted to know exactly how much time was left? Sure, you can see what scene is playing, but how well can you really estimate the remaining time from that? Even after several years I can only manage a rough guess ( Read more... )

The Red Sox, Patriots, Bruins, Celtics, and even the Boston Blazers, will all make the playoffs in the calendar year 2011. I'm calling it right now on 12/10/10.

Userpic win! btw. Anyone get the reference?

At this time last year, I was going into surgery for my smashed septum. I had taken a football facemask to the nose back in October. My left nostril is still a little bigger than my right, up inside, and it will be forever, but at least I can breathe through both. And most importantly, it's still symmetric on the outside ( Read more... )

I've been listening to Radiohead's In Rainbows at work for the last two days. Just leaving it on and chilling while I type. But just now, out of the blue, I suddenly realized: This album sucks.

I'm so done with Radiohead. We'll never get another The Bends or OK Computer out of them; that much is clear by now. Hail To The Thief gave some hope - the ( Read more... )