Archive for 2005/05


you know you’re a bachelor when…

I had to use a paint scraper to clean the inside of my microwave tonight. I don’t think I’ve cleaned it out since getting it used off CraigsList 4 years ago. Is that funny or sad?
Maybe this weekend I’ll move my lucky bag of onions from the fridge to the backyard.

summer in the city

Hoo wee! Summer is almost here. Don’t look out your window, because you can’t tell by the weather. Instead, look online. I just noticed that Summerstage finally posted their 2005 calendar. They realized that most of us are broke/cheap/lame and won’t pay $40 for a benefit concert, so they split […]

Doc, my loins are killing me.

The halls around campus are already starting to fill up with new recruits… I guess they are starting a semester early, knocking out a few credits before the regular year begins in the fall. Hmph, overachievers. Nothing but overachievers around here. Sweet, sweet overachievers.
It’s hard to be unhappy in a […]

MIA on NPR

Because I’ve been sleeping-in later and later, I rarely get to listen to NPR anytime before The Brian Lehrer Show starts. But yesterday morning was one of those rare occasions when I was up before 9am. I turned on NPR for Morning Edition and was hearing MIA. (If you haven’t heard her […]

what are YOU doing?

The 9 train was skipping over a bunch of stops again this morning, so I had to take the bus from 96th to 120th. Not a terrible inconvenience, but I had to go straight to my 11am meeting… 15 minutes late.
After the meeting, just as I sit down at my desk, one of the DBAs […]

blah blog

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have you ever wondered why the words blah and blog are nearly the same? you’ll soon know…
this is my first post, on my first blog– the first step in improving my “online presence”, which up until now was nearly non-existent.
i told iracel i was going to start a blog, and i half expected […]