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I know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy…

So what’s a car with over 96,000 miles and probably a thousand bucks of work on the horizon worth? That’s what I was stuck contemplating Wednesday as I headed over to meet Billy and his dad at a Toyota dealership. Have I mentioned Billy before? I still never know how to refer to him. He’s [...]

Must see

I am officially psyched for two new movies. For those of you who missed the recommendation by Mark, check out the trailer for Pan’s Labyrinth. Mmmm, deliciously fantastic eye candy from the brilliant Guillermo del Toro. Hellboy was an awesome film, but if you want to know why I’m really excited, check out The [...]

Communications down

Just when I’m thinking how smoothly Gmail has worked for me - WHAMO! - it goes down. It’s been down for a couple hours now. The sad thing is that I barely even use e-mail to talk with real people - just to get notifications of stuff. But of course today I was actually about [...]

Crap

I’m sick. It’s not that bad, but I’ve got a terrible malaise about me. I wouldn’t be so upset, but this is supposed to be a good week for me. My company’s holiday party was yesterday, and I’ve got friend’s parties on Friday and Saturday night. Yesterday was difficult enough, as I couldn’t really mingle [...]

What I need

Wow, it really looks like I could have used one of these sometime in the past couple years. Now, it looks like I’ll need one of these to deal with the results…

Deathmobile

Sunday night Lisa and I had our usual “can we afford to continue living our exorbitant lifestyle of a heated home and almost two square meals a day” talk. So far we’ve decided that there’s at least enough cheese and crackers and olives to get us through the year. I’m not so sure after that.
Alright, [...]

Attention all wannabe hipsters

Tonight at Maxwell’s, local legends-in-their-own-minds Ya-Ne-Zniyoo will be taking the stage for the last time. Also in the line-up are The Faves (formerly Eugene). Come check it out:

Lisa and I shall be bopping along for yet another farewell to the scene that brought us together. Hope to see lots of friends there.

The honeymoon is over

Last night when I was in the middle of another classic rant about Apple… or the Eagles… or politics… or monkeys… I really don’t remember at this point… Lisa suddenly made the little talky hand gesture. You know the one, the one where you use your hand to mimic the other person talking too much [...]

First submission

I finally submitted my first photo to JPG Magazine. It’s an old photo, but once they announced the theme “Embrace the Blur” I decided I had to give it a try. Not to be cocky about it (the shot was pretty much an accident) but this photo to me epitomizes how great blur can be:

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Sometimes my gender makes me cringe

Driving into work today I paused on 92.3 Free FM (whatever the hell that means) as a couple guys were talking about childbirth. Specifically, they were talking about c-sections and how much better they seem than “traditional” childbirth (as they called it). Now, this wasn’t about the convenience, or anything, it was about their assumption [...]