Left work late and got the 6:30 train instead of the one an hour earlier. Before arriving Hillsdale, a train near San Mateo hits a car, delaying us at least 40 minutes. There's a SamTrans stop right outside, for whatever good that does anyone. I didn't wear enough layers to deal gracefully with delay today. Took about 40 minutes to SamTrans to ( Read more... )

A couple weeks back, coworker Josh makes some remark about his having just four pairs of pants. Finding that low, I noted back that I had twenty-five, a number I made up in my head for an amount of pants that seemed comically high ( Read more... )

Hello. In an effort to avoid any of the glumness that's besieged me off and on this year, I've been spending about 85% of my leisure time playing video games. It's Good Video Game Season, after all.

It's been supremely effective!

Batman: Arkham Asylum probably doesn't fall under this particular era but it was amazing.

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One of my most favorite bands right now is SF-based 20 Minute Loop, who I've listened to constantly and haven't yet been able to catch in person. They're headlining Bottom of the Hill tomorrow, and after reading their myspace I found out it's their last! show! ever ( Read more... )

I'm in San Diego this weekend for my Mom's retirement. This meant flying out of SF after work on Friday ( Read more... )

The brief and outlandish saga of the AirWave hay rides:


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New York
I never fully reflected on this experience other than dumping like 700 point-and-shoot fotos on flickr.

• Walked many miles across Brooklyn on my first day. Stopped walking as much after that because walking is slow.
• Biked like 150 miles between two separate rented bikes. It turned out the day I came over was the New York century, a rare all- ( Read more... )

It's Halloween season, and that means my favorite joke is the word 'haunted'. Any object that behaves unusually, I question whether it is posessed by a spook or spectre. If for instance someone's Facebook news feed fails to load I will propose that Facebook is haunted, perhaps because of that time they chose to build Facebook on the indian burial ( Read more... )