On December 31, 1999, there was a drawer in the kitchen of my small apartment in LA. It was filled with extra hot sauce packets from Taco Bell and Del Taco. December 31, 2009, my current kitchen does not posses this drawer.
Yearly Archives: 2009
Adventures in brain tumors: Hormone Medications FTW!
Earlier today I did a full scan of my brain via an MRI procedure. It wasn't as bad as I thought, and I even got to listen to music for most of the procedure (and the radiology dude commented at the end "Nice tunes dude. Tapes 'n Tapes? Love that album"). In the past couple …
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In Defense of Twittering During Tragedy
Yesterday, I noticed blogs lighting up as they passed along the story of a mother supposedly twittering while her son drowned and the massive backlash that followed including instant accusations of parental neglect. The story sounded too good to be true, the kind of stuff people write in their heads and hold in draft mode …
Content sausage factories
This is new to me: seeing a friend's awesome (and creepy) halloween cooking idea (which is kind of shocking and disgusting looking even though it's good food inside) show up in content mills I hadn't previously heard of, like 2leep and odditycentral. The 2leep links show up at the tail end of posts at Inquisitr …
Going, going, gone
This should be exciting: Around 2PM today (Pacific) the PVRblog auction will close.
Four hours with a Motorola Droid Phone
Some notes from spending a few hours with my first Droid phone. The first thing I encountered that drove me crazy was trying to login to my own sites. When I highlighted a text field, it took up the entire viewport in landscape mode, not even showing the label for what I was entering. I …
La Blogotheque takeaway shows
I’m a late comer to La Blogotheque’s Takeaway shows (Andy turned me onto them six months ago). From what I gather, the site is like a French Pitchfork, and when musicians come visit, a video director and sound guy throw some instruments at the musicians and they play wherever they can. Buses, street corners, and …
Adventures in brain tumors: some ups, some downs
Another week, another set of appointments. This week I did a long appointment with an eye doctor, had an ultrasound of my heart, and then checkups with my neuro surgeon/endocrinologist. The eye appointment was excruciating as it involved many dilation drops over a period of around three hours. Once per hour I'd see the doctor …
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Jimmy Fallon as Neil Young doing the Fresh Prince theme
Astoundingly brilliant and funny to boot: http://widgets.nbc.com/o/4727a250e66f9723/4b0d8bc5b0e864c4/4727a250e66f9723/bdb29120/-cpid/c36a80c5cb0d1fe
Adventures in brain tumors: a frustrated start
I wish I had a copy of the images to show you, because they're kind of amazing. Imagine a cross-section shot of a head and what isn't brain, is tumor. In the small gap at the base of the brain, there it is, and it's huge. Tumor, all of it. So large you can't see …
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A Whole Lotta Nothing 