By far the worst part of living in San Francisco is the large homeless population. It’s rather the opposite of what you’re probably thinking. The decay of empathy starts slowly, as you first say “no” every time you’re asked for money. It accelerates quickly after that, as you simultaneously discard eye contact while pretending you [...]
Without hyperbole, the most important problem in America today is that as individual citizens, we have lost our sovereignty. It is gone, lost to corrupting power of money. No matter your political suasion, everything you think is wrong with America today stems from this one root cause. Really. The most important 90 minutes you can [...]
The 9th annual No Pants BART ride was over the weekend, and it was hilarity all around. Jeff and I did the entire trip from condo, walking 10 blocks to BART, the festivities themselves, and the cab ride home all without pants. Perhaps my favorite moment of the day was when a group of 20 [...]
I’m giving up on social networks. Between G+, Flickr, Twitter, Path, LinkedIn, and whatever else, it’s just too damn hard to manage them all. It feels like work, which is exactly opposite the point of being connected to my friends. Whither Facebook? No, sorry. They don’t give you control over your own stuff. When computer [...]
[I originally wrote this over on Google+, but this was important enough for me to post here for my real friends] So, it’s been pretty fun watching the internet punish GoDaddy for supporting SOPA. At the same time, it reminds me of fighting a guy in a wheelchair; you’re not on a level playing field. [...]
Weekend #2 in the left coast started out quite delicously. Some people take photos of their dogs. Or their babies. You know, stupid stuff like that. I take photos of things that are pure awesome sauce viz., food. Rebecca was amused, claiming only “Asian people do that”. To that, I say “Well, Rebecca, only robots [...]
After an uneventful 16 hours of driving with a brief 3 hour nap, landed in San Francisco, safe and sound, albeit a little sick of pizza. I was quite relieved to discover that you can indeed still trust strangers over the internets, and that after sending a Very Large Paypal to someone I’d never met [...]
We interrupt this viagra sporadic Platypus Friday to bring you the special moving edition, wherein your humble narrator departs for points west. I find it satisfyingly symmetrical that just as I came to Ft. Collins in a Dodge Caravan, so shall I leave in a Dodge Caravan. In retrospect, a minivan was way too spacious. [...]
These are roughly the books I read between mid-May through mid-September, in roughly chronological order. Seal Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper, by Howard Wasdin. Decent book, you get to learn more about sniper training than any other book I’ve read thus far. The fighting is through Somalia, the Black Hawk Down [...]
A few quick notes regarding jury duty in Larimer County, CO: there doesn’t seem to be a dress code (as of this writing). I saw plenty of men and women wearing sandals. I also (enviously) saw one male wearing cargo shorts (and I would’ve done the same had I known). the oath they make you [...]