Negativity
I don't really ever have anything intelligent to say. I read more blogs daily, by people who are more coherent than I ever will be, regarding topics that attract more readers than I will ever garner....
View ArticleHonesty, it's a worthy bitch
I've never been very good at being fully honest. Around 2005, after I had a few quarter-life crises, I decided that I'd start down the long path of discovering what it meant to be honest. A little over...
View ArticleSkeletons
In Dungeons and Dragons, skeletons are described as: Magically animated, undead monsters enchanted by powerful magic-users or clerics of evil alignment. In real life, they're a euphemism, at least in...
View ArticleWhy I Voted No on Measure J
Tomorrow Santa Clara, California opens it's polls for the California June, 2010 Primaries. Santa Clara City, the city I live in, has been pushing, and pushing, and pushing Measure J. There's some...
View ArticleWhy I don't (usually) mention people's names in my blog
I wrote this subject into the blog title, and it has a very simple answer. Short Answer: I'm a raving lunatic. And then I just started writing about other stuff, consider this article a bait and...
View ArticleElminated: ScrumMaster
I didn't shoot the ScrumMaster anymore than Bob Marley and Eric Clapton shot the deputy. I am on my quest to eliminate bloat from my life in areas that are not working. This discussion of elimination...
View ArticleEliminated: 4 Bags of Clothes
I live a bit like an Amish person, if Amish people liked computers and alcohol. Still, out of sheer laziness over the last couple of years, I was able to accumulate 4 paper grocery bags worth of...
View ArticleEliminated: Eating as a Hobby
My version of the Paleo-diet is as close as I'll ever get to fasting. Fast from eating food? No way. When I see cows, I see beautiful hunks of bloody meat and beautiful mounds of fattening brie. Pigs...
View ArticleReflections on the first Shabberemy
I have some good friends who are Jewish, one in particular who I have great intellectual discussions with in regards to the various practices of Judaism. One practice that I love is the Shabbat. While...
View ArticleMy stereotype of IT
Everything I install on my computer makes it faster. Everything they install on my computer makes it slower.
View ArticleOn Being 34
I finally listened to the Billy Collins CD that my wife's parents gave to us. First and foremost, the CD is fucking awesome, if for no other reason than to hear Bill Murray introduce Billy Collins. The...
View ArticleCrazy, not insane
In regards to a decision that I recently made, my wife told me that: [Jeremy] you're crazy but not insane. Given that my favorite book ever is Catch 22, I'm very much okay with this assessment of my...
View ArticleI'm a douche
I quit my most recent W2 job. Again. It seems I can hardly hold a job for more than 6 months, and this last one I almost, almost held for a year. It's shocking that I've been with the same woman for...
View ArticleOn Vacation
A week and a half into my voluntary unemployment, I'm realizing I haven't had a vacation, or at least what feels like a vacation, since my Europe trip in 2004. Whatever I'm doing is starting to feel...
View Article8 of my 17 posts
Contain the word "fuck" in them. I know this, because I've gotten so utterly bored of boring vacation and video games that I've started pulling apart this blog code and making it my own. And I just...
View ArticleThis blog is a testing ground
At times, it's a real blog. I felt it necessary to warn my 5 readers that I've gotten bored with just playing video games and have decided to program in my spare time when I'm not being a Hausmann. If...
View ArticleI'm done treating Internet Explorer like the handicapable kid on the...
When I'm whoring myself out for the Benjamins, I'll kiss Internet Explorer on the lips and love it like it was one of my lost siblings come home from the war. But I just had an incident tonight, with...
View ArticleDrinking and (de)bugging
With more than a bottle of Two Buck Chuck in me, last night became a night of drinking and failed attempts to debug a problem. This problem I referenced in my rant about Internet Explorer that I posted...
View ArticleReusable Code
A lot has happened since last Wednesday, which will be a story for another time, a long time in the future, which I'll probably use to frighten the grandkids. Since then I've been doing a lot of...
View ArticleThe Kung Fu Paradox
I heard this Mark Twain Quote the other day: When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the...
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