Prepare two weeks in advance by meticulously scrubbing every surface in your Ballard Craftsman incessantly until your fingers permanently smell of caustic chemical solutions of varying levels of astringency. I particularly like the Meyer's lemon-scented all-purpose cleaner. Accidentally ingesting that shit tastes like the paradichlorobenzene- ( Read more... )

- Officially squeeze-in-every-spare-minute addicted to Rock Band 2. I've just been doing the guitar parts for now, but last night I made a Rock Band 2 video for White Wedding, and Jennifer now has to get me to shut up from walking around singing "Hey little sister shotgun ( Read more... )

I started with the premise that music of this decade is completely nondescript; a person can almost immediately tell if a song is from the, say, 80s, but the only unique factor in what's considered popular by any standard today is exactly how NOT unique it is ( Read more... )

Today, I've accepted an offer for a new job within Cray. The last 10 years of my life have been involved in filesystem-related roles; I will now be developing code for Cray's compiler, Chapel. Intentionally leaving specifics out of this semi-public forum, however if anyone is wondering: Leave a comment

I've been to 285 restaurants in the state of Washington ( Read more... )

I fucking love you all.

There's no need to inundate you with a political rant about the necessity of voting for the Democratic Party for almost every office in this election. Those two or three who read this blog are, typically, informed and liberal, anyway ( Read more... )

I've discovered capers and crispy onions, and I consume them with everything these days. Nary a delicious meal cannot be made tastier with them. It's gotten bad enough that sometimes, when enjoying my flaxseed cereal in the morning, I forego the soy milk and pour the caper brine into the bowl instead ( Read more... )

October 2004: Ran flat Chicago Marathon to exceedingly disappointing results. In conjunction with disarray at hp over the next few months, I take some time off from running ( Read more... )

Last year, my company held a chili cooking contest, and I submitted a chili I thought was really tasty. Despite it being vegan (which seems to disqualify things in most people's eyes, sort of like not voting for a presidential candidate because he's a Muslim terrorist for which there is, and I checked, no constitutional reason a Muslim terrorist ( Read more... )