there are many different blogging styles; some people write short daily posts reacting to news they read and whatnot, but i prefer to sporadically write long grandiose semi-autobiographical posts, occasionally integrating brief reviews of stuff i've watched recently or other short rambles as i see fit. this is so i can keep things interesting, both for me and for you, since boring writing is written bored. i won't waste time with any quotidian diary posts like "i went to the store and bought a thing", every post here will try to be at least as interesting as "i accidentally discovered a new species of crustacean" or "i went to an odd restaurant" or "i got marooned on the moon" or "dang the united inflight magazine is kinda wacky", the kind of stuff i might still be recounting/ranting about to people at a bar in ten years. everything here is guaranteed to be at least 90% true, certain details have been changed to protect individuals involved and to make me appear cooler (and my enemies less so).
over time my blog posts have been ballooning in size and scope, i seem to have forgotten that i originally made the blog to host lighter, off-the-cuff stuff. so, i'm going to dial things down a bit and do a quick rundown of the best movies i saw this year...
12.23
socal has an ideal climate for putting up christmas lights, i don’t think i would be comfortable doing it somewhere where it actually rains or with big leafy trees around to contribute other rooftop slipping hazards....
12.20
putting up christmas lights is one of the most seasonal businesses out there, you've got basically a month or so to squeeze in as many clients as you possibly can, and of course half of them want their lights put up on the exact same day...
12.7
i discussed this before but part of the charm of the greater san diego area is how hilly it is - there are only a handful of large flat areas near the coast, on top of mesas, or at the base of valleys. undeveloped flat land has long since run out...
11.10
dallas, in some ways, was a return to the roots, to the scene of the crime, to the distant origins of the current era in my personal history (which may be coming to a close soon)...
austin and dallas don't look that far away from each other on the map, but it's texas of course so they're a three-hour drive apart, or, using the standard conversion formula (multiply by 2), a six-hour amtrak ride...
5.21
coming back from my recent eclipse trip, during which i left my computer at home running the entire time (seed your torrents, kids!), i discovered i could no longer access anything stored on my oldest hard drive...
5.11
i remember six or seven years ago thinking i was some kind of elite cheapskate for knowing about aliexpress, where you could pick up all sorts of "made in china" stuff at deep discounts by cutting out the middlemen and buying direct from chinese vendors...
4.30