I think the most accurate description of my relationship with cacti is frenemies
7 months ago | Comments (View)
Yay Reader! for new awesome features. One of the last TODOs I left in the Reader codebase, and MihaiDevin implemented it! Should be pretty easy to figure out how to trigger it ;)
8 months ago | Comments (View)
@cw (c dubs) sent me this handy guide to my apartment earlier today. It’s true, I still have nothing. Hopefully this will no longer be the case come, um, two weeks from now. But there are exciting1 developments so allow me to enumerate.
Zipcar rocks my world. It allowed me to drive all over Oakland today. Getting furniture upholstered as well an espresso-fueled Target run. I came close to buying plants for the roof deck, but decided to worry about it later. I did end up buying lots more cleaning supplies.
Phone numbers are ten digits, not seven. Peoples, please stop giving out seven-digit phone numbers, I don’t know how to call them. xoxoxo.
My first official non-spam, non-philly-cheese-steak-delivery-free-free-free mail was from netflix. The movie? Special. Worthy of a first mail? Unclear.
I almost always want to go to eastward toward Valencia when walking out of my apartment. Even though Liberty runs through Guerrero, the street is broken at that intersection. Specifically, there’s a median in the way and no cross walk. Google Maps doesn’t show this very well, but here’s a street view. This forces me to jaywalk2 every single day. Please do not alert the authorities.
Bevmo is kind of incredible. I had no idea. So much selection.
@shellen demoed brizzly today. Sign up if you want in on the betaalpha.
Junipero is tasty tasty stuff.
The new Royce EP is also good.
As is @evan’s cassandra overview.
And slaughterhouse.
8 months ago | Comments (View)
Untested. Well, because I don’t know where my things are. You end up putting so much faith in movers to transport your precious belongings across the country. And then they don’t return your calls. C’mon Oz, you’re supposed to be the wizard of moving! The weather has been — apparently uncharacteristically — awesome these past couple of days. Not quite warm enough to explain all the shirtlessness in dolores park though. It’s not that warm people! I guess it makes it easier to pick out the sane ones (hint: they have shirts on, and, in some cases, sweaters)
I have an apartment! It has a great view, and a roof deck, and is all sorts of conveniently located, and yippee! Settling in after being settled for so long is difficult. I need to paint, and figure out where everything goes, and replace my old routines with suitable (or better) ones. I’ve started on that a little. I joined a gym. Though it’s a bit rickety, the price and location are just right. Hasad, the proprietor, is really big on returning the weights. None of the weights looked out of place to me. Probably because of all the “please return the weights” signage. I hope. Maybe he beats the disobedient. Everything is looking goooood.
8 months ago | Comments (View)
From the posts that will be entered as an exhibit department.
I can’t help but wonder about the correct consistency of blood splatter. Two things make me wonder this.
The first is the trailer for Robogeisha. Seriously, don’t watch this trailer. I have a pretty strong stomach, but it’s a bit much for me. Robogeisha is brought to you by the minds behind Tokyo Gore Police, another unwatchable splatter fest. I hate leaving movies unfinished but I only got through 20 minutes of that one. The blood is this watery, continuous stream stuff that sprays every which way like a garden hose out of control. I don’t understand the appeal. It tends to remind me of the vomiting scene from Problem Child 2. You know the one.
Numero dos - I was just watching Die Hard. Action movies from the 80s and 90s always had that thick ketchupy blood. It sort of splurts out in this weird unrealistic way, all goopy like corn syrup.
When is Dexter coming back?
8 months ago | Comments (View)
