Archives for June 2001

everybody else is still working for the weekend

Today was my last day of work at Intel. Three years, three months, two weeks, and one day after I walked into that giant suburban monolith and watched ...

lousy salary, great vacation time

Don't let anyone tell you otherwise - being unemployed is full-time work. Or at least it is for me. Maybe it's just that in my previous allotments ...

odds and ends

I just found out that my friend Amar has a webpage up now. Which is good. It's more fulfilling to read the online diaries of people you know than those ...

the soul of a new machine

I spent some time today making my computer more personalized. You know, because I have time to do that now. My computer background now shows the ...

the worst of the worst

Submitted for your perusal: the ten worst sitcoms ever. You may argue over the order, but you'd be hard pressed to find even worse shows. Although ...

have you taken your soma yet?

Today, I have just one question: will there ever be a time when we stop explaining every problem as some psychological disorder that must be treated ...

death to the white anglo-saxon protestants!

Yesterday I did battle with the wasps. The kind with six legs and a body clearly designed for evil. Why, they're nothing but wings, head, and stinger! ...

going to a show, meeting people

In other news, I went to see the Mates of State today at Jackpot Records. Apparently the MoS aren't playing any real shows in Portland, but they stopped ...

euphorious euphony

The Mates of State show really colored my world for the rest of the day. I hadn't really been to a show in a while, and perhaps not coincidentally, ...

another way to advertise

There was a sticky note on my car this morning as I tore off to the concert. It was the same note I've gotten before. "Please call me about your car ...

they got nothing but the genes

I found a wonderful site about the human genome today. You can go there and look at these very pretty pictures of our genetic makeup and find out which ...

judge, jury, and estimator

Ooh, ooh, ooh! I hate selling my CDs at Everyday Music. They have a way of making me feel so stupid. I wanted to sell some CDs I really don't listen ...

kids will be kids, if they're allowed

I think I'm going to cry. Again. This is just too much, people. I don't want to read about children's lives being ruined because they were not allowed ...

super fuzz, big muffin

I randomly stumbled onto Muffin Films today. Apparently part of someone's MFA thesis, it is a collection of films about, well, muffins. All the ...

todd stadler's day off

Today was an unproductive day at the "office" (that is, my house), because the "network" (that is, my DSL connection), was down. So I took the day off, ...

salsa - the forbidden condiment!

Today's lesson is about salsa. The first part of the lesson is that "salsa" is just Spanish for "sauce". Accordingly, ignore any distinctions certain ...

sticker? i don't even know her!

I broke down today and decided to decorate my monitor. Perhaps I had been too influenced by attitudes at work, where I wouldn't have dared to "deface" ...

cool and seething in san francisco

I'm in the Bay Area now, visiting wonderful girlfriend Julia. I got here all of yesterday. Today was spent wandering around the city, indulging in ...

pain is trendy

For dinner, we went to Country Station in the Mission for sushi. Why, just writing that sentence earned me ten cool points! Potential trendiness aside, ...

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