Ah! Busted!

Fill it out. One, it'll take two seconds. Two, like someone (ie. you) with an LJ can resist filling out a web poll. QED.

Poll Demographics

So I'm looking for work. Because I'm looking for geek work, and because geeks are pretty bad at communicating or even knowing what would make for a good geekmate, this has led to no end of funny phone calls/interviews ( Read more... )

Man, you guys are still living your lives even though I never log into LJ anymore? What up with that ( Read more... )

Since September, I've:

-Moved into the guest bedroom of two Asian lesbians, one of whom was a real estate agent with whom we were supposed to work.

-Moved out of the guest bedroom into a yet to be completed ~400 sq. ft. guest cottage, still being worked on by Cantonese contractors. That whole thing was a friends-of-friends "friendly" arrangement - ( Read more... )

If anyone ever offers to let you work remotely - please, please, please take it from someone who's been there: don't do it. It's a trap ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I tagged along with H to the city while she did her women MBA thing. Brought my bike. I am sorely under-prepared for topography - and not just hills. Within the first three pedal strokes, my tire got caught inside a streetcar track. In Union Square, so you know, nobody saw me eat it ( Read more... )

Someone I've known for going on four years finally came out of the closet, to me, yesterday. I appreciate the gravity of the act, that it can't be easy, that you've got to repeat this dance over and over again with the people you allow into that part of your life. That I don't really have to suffer this particular tense, falsely graceful social ( Read more... )

Jesus Christ people are stupid.

I'm getting rid of some old furniture on Craigslist, FOR FREE. With very specific time constraints, relatively accurate descriptions, etc. And almost none of the respondents can follow directions. How about this time? How about that time? What are the exact measurements? Can I come over and see it before I decide? I ( Read more... )

The US Open starts next week. But even apart from that, David Foster Wallace has written about the current state of the men's game in yesterday's (I assume) magazine section of the NYT, hereThis is him, on last month's Wimbledon final, the first time in the open era that the same two men had met in the finals of both Roland Garros and Wimbledon in ( Read more... )

Back when (if?) The Sims mattered, people split into two camps:

1) People who loved the game.
2) People who quickly realized that taking out the trash sucked - for real, virtually, whatever.

Obviously, I fell into camp #2.

In any case, that's exactly how I feel about the current super-abundance of community based web...things. I sort of feel ( Read more... )