10 points to myself for a Kurt Vonnegut reference in the title of my post. Net gain of points: 0.
I am engaged. Both people reading this know that. One of them is the lovely lady to whom I am engaged. But I figured what is this blog if not a chronicle of things that happen to me to be read by people who already know what happened to me? So yes, engaged, and very happy.
Goodbye A-rod. Hello Girardi. Don't get rid of the young blood, Yankees. It will serve you well.
Send money to: me. Thank you.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Monday, October 22, 2007
BOG! L!
Job progress: Wrote an article for Neil last week, and he classified me as a winner, which makes me feel good, and I think he wants to take me on full-time soon. Could be good stuff.
Music progress: Successfully wrote the worst set of lyrics. Very awful and funny. Trying to keep my chops in order.
Darjeeling progress: Limited. And also very great.
PGR2 progress: 3rd time through this very old game. I hate the American Muscle series with a passion reserved only for the things which I truly despise. I just want to get through that series of cars so I can have fun in that game again.
Bye guys!
Music progress: Successfully wrote the worst set of lyrics. Very awful and funny. Trying to keep my chops in order.
Darjeeling progress: Limited. And also very great.
PGR2 progress: 3rd time through this very old game. I hate the American Muscle series with a passion reserved only for the things which I truly despise. I just want to get through that series of cars so I can have fun in that game again.
Bye guys!
Monday, October 15, 2007
THINGS
Finished Ep. 2. Ruled. Can't wait for #3.
New Heroes tonight. Want some action, dammit.
Forgot to send in my timesheet by 12. Hopefully I get paid this week.
Got to finish Kitchen Confidential. Need to read more.
Got to finish Final Fantasy XII. So close, yet so far.
It's also about time to write a couple more tunes. I've been kicking some stuff around for a while, maybe this week I'll do some exploring of ideas.
Idea 1: What happens if you give a baby a gun? Did you ever wonder.
Idea 2: Elephants have parties...?
Idea 3: Answering a telephone with a racial slur.
These are just ideas.
New Heroes tonight. Want some action, dammit.
Forgot to send in my timesheet by 12. Hopefully I get paid this week.
Got to finish Kitchen Confidential. Need to read more.
Got to finish Final Fantasy XII. So close, yet so far.
It's also about time to write a couple more tunes. I've been kicking some stuff around for a while, maybe this week I'll do some exploring of ideas.
Idea 1: What happens if you give a baby a gun? Did you ever wonder.
Idea 2: Elephants have parties...?
Idea 3: Answering a telephone with a racial slur.
These are just ideas.
Friday, October 12, 2007
NEWSNEWSNEWS
Boy, do I have news for you - Radiohead has a new album! That's right, "u" heard it here first! "U" can find it here. It's super "kewl" "2" listen "2" on "ur" iPod, plus "u" can set "ur" own price and support experimental record distribution!! I didn't pay for it cuz I'm a cheap Asshole (see two posts down), but some dude (/company?) who really liked the idea payed $1,000 for it in support of their quiet revolution.
It's raining today in the Bay Area. It must be that time.
Basically Radiohead has been on my mind since Wednesday. Also the Orange Box. Finished up Portal last night. Pretty short, but also really really inventive and suprisingly funny. Valve has yet to miss the mark in a game. I'm sure they worked very hard on this, but the relationship they create in Portal between the player and their environment seems effortless and the result is fantastic.
Started Episode 2 last night and the environments and gameplay are starting to shift away from HL2 and Episode 1. Can't wait to see where it goes.
How exciting are my opinions. HOW EXCITING.
It's raining today in the Bay Area. It must be that time.
Basically Radiohead has been on my mind since Wednesday. Also the Orange Box. Finished up Portal last night. Pretty short, but also really really inventive and suprisingly funny. Valve has yet to miss the mark in a game. I'm sure they worked very hard on this, but the relationship they create in Portal between the player and their environment seems effortless and the result is fantastic.
Started Episode 2 last night and the environments and gameplay are starting to shift away from HL2 and Episode 1. Can't wait to see where it goes.
How exciting are my opinions. HOW EXCITING.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Tomorrow
Come tomorrow, I will once again blog. Blog on my blog. Bloggily. Blog! Is this a bloggy font? Can't think of anyway to make blog into a pronoun, preposition or a conjunction...can you?
Monday, October 8, 2007
Been a while
Sorry faithful readers. It's pretty incredible to think that I'm leaving 20,000+ readers out in the cold when I don't post my thoughts here. I know how many of you rely on me to interpret the world for you and provide you with your opinions on most of today's hot-button issues, and I'm sincerely sorry. But don't worry, in about 12 months, 'round election time, you can look here for all the right opinions to vote for!
This message brought to you by Me - I think so you don't have to!
Had a pretty swanky weekend, during most of which I was spending unspeakable amounts of money at extraordinarily lavish events all around the world. Money was no issue to me as I party-hopped from Paris to Hollywood to Milan and back again. I toasted with the smartest and most important people on the globe, and waiters received tips that were larger than their entire families' ten-year incomes. I was a King this weekend.
Somehow I also managed to partially cook and consume an autumn-based feast that lasted all of Saturday. Dining and boozing with good friends was something I sorely needed. Also, I learned that playing Cranium turns me into an Asshole. King or Asshole - a party weekend brought to you by yours truly.
Which story is the lie? Who is the real man behind the blog? King or Asshole - you make the call!
a: Asshole.
This message brought to you by Me - I think so you don't have to!
Had a pretty swanky weekend, during most of which I was spending unspeakable amounts of money at extraordinarily lavish events all around the world. Money was no issue to me as I party-hopped from Paris to Hollywood to Milan and back again. I toasted with the smartest and most important people on the globe, and waiters received tips that were larger than their entire families' ten-year incomes. I was a King this weekend.
Somehow I also managed to partially cook and consume an autumn-based feast that lasted all of Saturday. Dining and boozing with good friends was something I sorely needed. Also, I learned that playing Cranium turns me into an Asshole. King or Asshole - a party weekend brought to you by yours truly.
Which story is the lie? Who is the real man behind the blog? King or Asshole - you make the call!
a: Asshole.
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Welcome to a Job
So if you'll kindly refer to my first post......
See it? Read it? Good.
Neil has decided to take a chance on my inexperienced ass, and for that I am extraordinarily grateful. He sees some potential in me in his line of work, and I am beginning to see it in myself. I have to rely on my genuine kindness and good-personitude and let these qualities shine forth like a beacon for all the world to see. Flashing, saying "stay away from the rocks, gentle captains... I will show you the way home." And in the warmth of my guiding light, the masses will feel comforted, respected, and worthwhile, and will want to put our press release in their trade publication.
Now it's time to look for another part-time position. Hopefully my current job down in Palo Alto will let me stay on while I find some more convenient workplace.
More about new ways of thinking in a bit.
See it? Read it? Good.
Neil has decided to take a chance on my inexperienced ass, and for that I am extraordinarily grateful. He sees some potential in me in his line of work, and I am beginning to see it in myself. I have to rely on my genuine kindness and good-personitude and let these qualities shine forth like a beacon for all the world to see. Flashing, saying "stay away from the rocks, gentle captains... I will show you the way home." And in the warmth of my guiding light, the masses will feel comforted, respected, and worthwhile, and will want to put our press release in their trade publication.
Now it's time to look for another part-time position. Hopefully my current job down in Palo Alto will let me stay on while I find some more convenient workplace.
More about new ways of thinking in a bit.
Monday, October 1, 2007
'nother day, 'nother week, 'nother blog
Satisfied with the weekend. Pretty great. Recorded a demo of that old new song I was telling myself about in this blog. The other boys in the band seem happy with it and excited to work on it. I can only see it going in great directions.
Gonna try to get my gym on later. Try to cut my pudge off at the start so I don't look pregnant by the time I'm 50 like a lot of older white men I know. Or maybe I should cultivate my belly, and really make the most of genetic inevitability.
I just cannot take myself seriously in these blogs. I have some mental block about writing serious things in this format, or even not so serious things. It can't act as a journal, cuz there is always the possibility that someone will actually read it. But no one does, so I'm just writing this weird semi-biographical yet non-diary-entry stuff for myself in this weird language that I never quite use except when I'm writing for other people. I only know one other person that reads this, and I could just talk to her most of the time. I guess this is necessary just to have a foot in the door in case Google awards all bloggers with some money just for being so cutting edge. But you know we'll never see that Google money. They just refuse to recognize our collective genius. No, we'll never get dollar one from Google. Not a single penny.
Is that bad joke funny yet, or should I keep going with it?
You make the call.
Gonna try to get my gym on later. Try to cut my pudge off at the start so I don't look pregnant by the time I'm 50 like a lot of older white men I know. Or maybe I should cultivate my belly, and really make the most of genetic inevitability.
I just cannot take myself seriously in these blogs. I have some mental block about writing serious things in this format, or even not so serious things. It can't act as a journal, cuz there is always the possibility that someone will actually read it. But no one does, so I'm just writing this weird semi-biographical yet non-diary-entry stuff for myself in this weird language that I never quite use except when I'm writing for other people. I only know one other person that reads this, and I could just talk to her most of the time. I guess this is necessary just to have a foot in the door in case Google awards all bloggers with some money just for being so cutting edge. But you know we'll never see that Google money. They just refuse to recognize our collective genius. No, we'll never get dollar one from Google. Not a single penny.
Is that bad joke funny yet, or should I keep going with it?
You make the call.
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