So, anyone else disturbed by the news that we might be running out of fucking rice?  Like any overprivileged Westerner, I think of rice as one of those omnipresent staples that never runs out.  I foresee a dystopian rice-free future where Chinese food delivery men are our post-apocalyptic warriors and street gangs battle for supremacy in the husk ( Read more... )

Muxtape is my new favorite web discovery - it's a web based music player that allows you to make 12 song playlists.  Here's mine, a 40 minute sampling of some prime 80 proof rock and roll.  Check the site out before it inevitably gets shut down due to copyright violations.

Richard Widmark died at age 93.  He was great in two of my favorite noirs of all time: Kiss of Death (as the cackling, old-lady-pushing heavy) and Night and the City (as the small time hustler whose big schemes go horribly awry, as they always do in film noir).  One of my favorite character actors of that era, and I'm embarrassed to say that I ( Read more... )

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Forget the free accounts/advertising business.  There are many, many more reasons to picket against Livejournal that the Man doesn't want you to blog about.  For example ( Read more... )

I've been working the past few weeks at a research institute in Georgetown.  I'm not enjoying it for many reasons (not metro-accessible, the commute is hell, the work is dull and tedious), but there is one redeeming factor - the deli across the street sells Boylan's Cane Cola.  I had one of these when I was in New York a while back and became ( Read more... )

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- I was trying to do my laundry today in my apartment building's laundry room when I walked in on one of the neighbor kids and her boyfriend in flagrante delicto.  (Well, pretty close to it, at least - not in the act, but clearly working their way towards it.)  I didn't really know what to do, so I just laughed nervously and put my laundry into the ( Read more... )

New job - it's ok, so far.  It's less of a meat grinder than a larger firm and so far, everyone I've worked under has been at least tolerable.  The roughest part has been adjusting to working on a regular basis.  I took a three week sabbatical (two of those paid - ah, severance pay, I love you so) before starting here, spent a lot of time sitting ( Read more... )

From the "personal of the day" web ad thing on the Onion: Fill in the blanks: "Giving in is sexy; resisting is sexier."  Now, I don't know much about the whole online dating thing, but isn't one of the first rules of writing a dating profile "try not to say things a sexual predator would say"?