So losing my TV has made me more productive (duh). Sunday night I read to the girls seven chapters of The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler, Monday night I picked The Baby up from tennis and we went driving around. Tuesday night I went home and cleaned parts of my office, living room, […]
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Faith, Books, and Stuff
Month: August 2012
This blog was birthed because my TV was having problems in December of 2008. Now, it has finally died. Eight years of mostly loyal service. It’s terminal this time. And so, we will have to start TV shopping some time. I’m not in a huge hurry, as I have a ton of other productive things […]
“Of course, if Google or Facebook or Microsoft or Victor Von Doom showed up at my door with a big sack full of money and another sack full of blow and another sack full of hot cosplayers, rest assured I would jump into the car with them without a single care about whether I had left on the […]
So I was cleaning my study. I hate cleaning. But once in a while, usually while on vacation, I get this urge to clean. Everything. Yes, I’ve seen the meme. The problem with me cleaning, even when I am enjoying it, is that I clean the way I play Skyrim. No, I don’t mean I enter […]
My last employer was a Taiwanese-owned company and I worked with a lot of Chinese / Taiwanese people. One day Yahwen and I were comparing the worst whoopins we ever got as children. Here is his in his words, to the best of my memory: “In Chinese households there is this kind of bump that […]
“If I’d’ve had this opportunity on previous films they’d all have cost squinty billion dollars.”
15 Year Old: She’s not very pretty. 17 Year Old: She’s German. Very German.
n., a loud and/or heated argument or brawl, named for the suburb in Dublin, Ireland and its formerly famous (and raucous) Donnybrook Fair.
Ran into my friend Logan last summer. He apologized for not having replied to my email–from two years ago. He said he started a reply, but every time he went to send it he ended up revising it and it is still in his Drafts folder. It sounded funny at the time, but I now […]