The stranger ahead of us opens the glass door to the rest stop for us, and lets us pass by him. Why? We step past the crane game and into the foyer of souvenirs, just beside by the Sbarro neon signs. White fluorescent lights are everywhere. I take note of the Starbucks Advent Calendar. I [...]
Category Archives: My Life
Alternate Reality
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Do you know how on sci-fi TV shows, they always have the episode where there’s some sort of accident with the space-time continuum and the characters meet their alternate reality selves? And they’re always shockingly different but still intimately familiar? That’s what Thanksgiving with your family is about. This old man is you if you [...]
rm -rf *
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Even though I have a good reason to do it, typing rm -rf * always makes me upset.
One Dollar
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
I have just entered into a suckerbet respectable wager with Dee. She wanted to bet a dollar on what happen to the Dow after Obama wins. (If Obama loses, no money changes hands.) But if Obama wins, one week after McCain concedes, she believes that based on enthusiasm and optimism for Obama, the Dow will [...]
Buying Tech Now
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
I’ve been waiting on buying a laptop for months now. I actually had one ordered but they couldn’t get it to me before I left for tour, or even while on tour, so I canceled the order.
The thing with buying tech (and for me specifically I’m looking at the Asus Eee 1000 laptops) is that [...]
Your Sex Life
Thursday, July 24, 2008
So far on tour we’ve had dinner with two families including early teenagers.
What I’ve learned: When you’re fifteen years old, it’s entirely appropriate for other people around you to discuss your sex life for you.
I remember it happening to me when I was fifteen and it was super annoying. “Do you have a girlfriend yet? [...]
