February 2009
90 posts
In the 1930s the Jockey company advertised their wares by flying around the country in a plane called the Masculiner.
Motocross @ at&t park tonight. Lots of people walking by my apartment chugging bud lite.
January 2009
93 posts
Off to the farmers market!
Feeling an inexplicable confusion bordering on hostility towards the schwa today.
Sipping a glass of my homemade buddha’s hand infused vodka and soda. The weekend is here.
All right! Google ads on hollenback.net have accumulated $63 in just 5 years! In another 4 years I will reach $100 and get my first check!
How to write a program for a PDP/11 on paper tape and run it. With video! (http://ping.fm/2v3M5)
Someone needs to get up there and replace some lightbulbs on the bay bridge.
I’m listening to Angela Lansbury singing a show tune right now. Why did I put that in itunes? Uhoh, it’s catchy.
My word for today: analog nightlights. (http://ping.fm/c7sk4)
There’s a joke somewhere in a phrase that just popped in to my head: Planck Road.
I remember reading about the internet in a magazine in 1987 and thinking that sounded like the coolest thing ever.
I like the way commensurate and commiserate are so confusingly similar but have totally different meanings. Or do they?
Today’s self-improvement goal: take all stairs two at a time.
Lets Have Fun at the Office Party! (http://ping.fm/roaIZ)
I haven’t mowed a lawn in almost 7 years. Sometimes I miss it.
I miss being able to say, ‘I read in the Times…’ and people knowing I was referring to the Gray Lady.
90% of audience at JJ Go / YLNT live show last night had iphones. Also should have worn turtleneck under blazer to blend in.
I have to live somewhere the urban density is high enough and city services good enough to require garbage cans on corners.
Having a toddler is really putting the kibosh on my staying up late at night.
Rental car lesson: Dodge Caliber combines blind spots of a semi with the handling of one. Which is weird because it is tiny.
Enter Sandman (http://ping.fm/wTg43)
Black Dynamite! (http://ping.fm/dGWoR)
I seem to be watching a movie on the Hallmark Channel with Tom Selleck playing an old cop or something. How did I get involved in this?
Change of pace: taking Caltrain to San Jose tonight instead of San Francisco. Going to Santa Cruz for weekend.
Drinking a Pilsner Urquell @ the Pig & Whistle.
Holy cow there is a new ‘Witch Mountain’ movie coming out. Uncle Jesse what would you think about that?
Excited to be taking a lunch trip to the Computer History Museum today with David.
There could not possibly be such a thing as a ‘fun run’.
Why does every sign that starts ‘for your safety’ really mean something else?
I keep getting told that I am responsible for the ‘long pole’ in a meeting. It is making me uncomfortable.
Glad to be wearing my waterproof watch again.
So inflation is a hidden regressive tax levied on us by the government? (http://ping.fm/7Mv3n)
I discovered that Adium now supports Facebook instant messaging. Also, Facebook has instant messaging.
I think for the last episode of ER they should pack up the hospital and fly home from Korea.
I believe I’ve reached the proper level of caffeine jitter in preparation for my weekly staff meeting.
Today at the Ferry Building I saw a bum using a bent table knife to crack the antitheft cap off a stolen jug of Jim Beam. Delightful.
I would prefer my tax dollars not go towards Garth Brooks singing ‘American Pie’ on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
I just enjoyed a drama on CBS. Does that mean I now qualify for AARP and retirement benefits? It was ‘The Mentalist’, btw.
If I make my son watch Sabado Gigant_ every Saturday night will he automatically learn Spanish?
I recommend the book ‘Flying Circus of Physics’ as a great example of the progress and mysteries of science.
The vodka is infused. Now we wait…
Making buddha’s hand infused vodka tonight.
Thought about going to TSOYA live taping w/ Jello Biafra in SF but I am afraid reality of Jello in person will not live up to mental image.
Q: How many clementines can I eat? A: infinity, plus a few more for good luck.
According to TV commercial kissing gives your meningitis and apparently you will then die. One more thing to worry about.
Would whoever swapped my delightful son for a screaming two-year-old monster please return him? Thank you.
I can’t tell the difference between the weather in Sunnyvale today vs. last August.
I just discovered the lead singer of The Lovin’ Spoonful plays the autoharp. Who knew? http://ping.fm/8UfGW
The new austerity: I brought my lunch to work for the first time yesterday. Y! cafeteria is cheap but I guess this is cheaper.