For almost a month now, I’ve been living in the best place to dine according to Bon Appétit readers.
Other than fast food, I’ve eaten out here a total of three times.
Things to get
Category: about me
Pure Vanity.
Reading too much…
“Sara would read anything you handed her…She read upon waking, sitting on the toilet, stretched out in the backseat of the car…If there was nothing else she would consume all the magazines and newspapers in the house—reading, to her, was a kind of pyromania—and when these ran out she would reach for insurance brochures, hotel prospectuses and product warranties, advertising circulars, sheets of coupon. Once I had come upon the spectacle of Sara, finished with the volume of C. P. Snow while only partway through on of the long baths she took for her bad back, desperately scanning the label on a bottle of Listerine.”
—Michael Chabon, “Wonder Boys”
I can relate.
This leads to the famous line in the movie: “She was a junkie for the
printed word. Lucky for me, I manufactured her drug of choice.”
Reading my height
I got my kitchen closet shelving today. (It’s actually a coat closet, but I’m turning it into a kitchen one which says something about my priorities.)
In about 3rd grade or so, we had to write down a self-description. The teacher gathered the cards, read them, and the class would try to guess who it was about.
My description started out: “I am 3′ 11″ tall…”
That’s about all I remember and it’s just about as far as the teacher got before the entire class guessed it was me. While I thought it was a pretty impressive number, I was still the shortest kid in my grade.
I’m standing in the elevator reading the side of a box I’m hauling up to the apartment. The shelves are 48″ long, an inch longer than I was at the time, and how this event comes back to my mind unbidden.
Amazon Prime a**hole
I paid for Amazon Prime because I’m rich and lazy. Besides, I spend about 15 hours a day at work, now.
This means whenever I have an urge to get a spatula, I just order it and it gets sent two day shipping at no charge. (Yes, I’ve actually done shit like that.)
But the new thing is they tried to sell me digital access, which, while a neat idea, is like a dumb ass version of Safari so no thanks.
Doing that must have caused a big mess up in their order flow because it just sent the stuff to my old company using my old billing information. I went to my accounts page to correct it but because the Amazon Prime thing, my order was being processed and I couldn’t cancel.
Dave IM’d and said it was a convenience tax.
(Just think what would have happened had I had 1-click turned out.)
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The cost of working at a website that targets teens.
I woke up today and had four zits on my forehead.
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My personality
As I was nitpicking a historical inaccuracy in a recent Wired article, Holly wondered if I ever took a Myer-Briggs.
I always felt I’d score an introvert, but nearly everyone who ever took Myer-Briggs said I’d score a heavy extrovert. I had never took one so I didn’t know.
Get a First Life
Mildly amusing play on this.
I don’t play Second Life, but I definitely need to get a first life.
Random thought while unloading my car at 2AM
My parking slot in my apartment costs about a third of my old car payment.
The origin on PHP trading cards
“…and Terry started taking pictures as Terry does with everything.”
—Cal Evans, Editor of Zend Dev Zone, in a Pro::PHP Webcast
Look on my cards, ye Mighty, and despair
Open Source Conference 2006, Portland, Oregon
Open Source Conference 2006, Portland, Oregon
Nikon D200, Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G VR
DxO (exp, blur, distorion, ca, vignette. noise, lighting)
1/15sec @ f/4, iso 250, 26mm (39mm)
BTW, Marcus Whitney is in the final deck which debuted at ZendCon and my guess is that the template from HP was probably inspired by Apple’s strange attempt.
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Beauty and the mofo Geek
Ed thinks I should be on Beauty and the Geek.
Akk! My contacts didn’t survive the trip and I had to wear glasses. Luckily they’re not taped together.
To be honest, I’ve never seen the show—you mean cable isn’t just for broadband? I’m not sure I would clean up on “that shit” though, unless the competitions were based on tourettes.
I appreciate the thought though… fucker. 😉