I sometimes wonder how i got to be 30 years old (31 in 17 days!) and never learned how to do basic things. In this case, buying shoes. Now that i'm spending most of my time at home, it occurs to me that i don't actually *own* a pair of casual "around the house" type shoes. I have boots. I have dress shoes. I have fancy running shoes. I even ( Read more... )

Hey, guys! How many of you have been to shows at the Shoreline Amphitheater? I am looking at tickets for a show next month, and there seems to be sort of a range of prices. Seats are about $100, and lawn is about $15. I can't help but think there is a reason for the heavy discount out on the grass. Advice?

Was planning to attend the Crucible Fire Arts festival in oakland tonight. I just checked, and tickets for tonight are $50. Let me say that again using text, to assist with pronunciation: FIFTY GODDAMNED DOLLLARS. For a show made up mostly of people i know doing things i've seen a hundred times already. So, essentially, no thank you. Not in ( Read more... )

EVERYTHING'S MANY THINGS ARE COMING UP MILHOUSE!!

What the hell is a "system idle process", anyway, and why is it taking up 80 to 93 percent of my CPU?

It should not take twenty seconds for my machine to respond to a keystroke.

Urge to kill, rising.

Why so quiet, internet?

Somebody post something so JWZ's strangely hot Judy Jetson picture quits staring at me with her boobs every time I check my flist.

It only makes it worse that I know it's just another false vision of the future, much like the flying cars and robot housekeepers.

Well, because i have a well-established inability to do things that sensible people (and/or pretty girls) tell me to do, i have shaved my face except for the moustache and that douchey area under the bottom lip. It's amazing. It does not suit me at all, but that's not the point. I look like these guys ( Read more... )

So. I lost my job a couple of weeks ago. No, i don't really want to talk about it. Certainly not here, anyway. Long story short, the city is broke. And broken. Onward to bigger and better things ( Read more... )

This is very bizarre. I'm taking advantage of some recent free time by cleaning out years of accumulated debris. I've been going through boxes all morning, coming across old photos and things. Each one encompasses a few-years-period of my life, like a cardboard time capsule. The one i'm in now is circa 2001, when i moved to California. God. ( Read more... )

Hi, everypeople. My internet at home is off, and so I am sitting in the corner of a Starbucks like some creepy molester at a playground, typety-typing away before my paid time runs out, pretending to enjoy coffee.

Had brunch today with the lovely and talented angryusername at some place in berkeley. Things like that make me realize just how isolated i am in ( Read more... )