I’ve managed to wear my roller blades around the office so far today. I decided at some point to see if I could go the whole day wearing them. I’ve got a meeting I’m going to at 12:45, so that’ll be a bit trickier, but I think I can manage it. We’ll [...]
In case anyone’s interested, I took the liberty of testing the ultimate fake fruity mixed drink this evening. One of my favorite drinks is a John Wayne. As a good friend of mine described it, it’s kinda like a Shirley Temple, except, umm, it doesn’t sound pansy. I’ve always ordered sprite’s with [...]
I recently finished Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. It was, after some reflection, one of the better books I’ve ever read, and I’m quite glad I stumbled upon it during one of my semi-frequent trips to the Hangzhou Foreign Language Bookstore downtown. If the term “fantasy-SF fusion” doesn’t turn you off immediately, [...]
Despite Lin saying that there is no such thing (even, he contends, after a divorce), I consider myself a virtual bachelor lately. There have been a number of strange habits of mine that have surfaced that I suspect are partly because being on my own again is a new thing and party because that’s [...]
Last weekend Jaime and I were hanging out at Borders for a bit and she came across a cd that she liked. I jotted down the name of the cd and band, and came across the note to myself today.
Using the slightly scary russian mp3 site that I mentioned a while back [...]