I saw two movies over the past week or so, The Informant and Where the Wild Things Are. I had been looking forward to Where the Wild Things Are for about a year. Unfortunately, I thought it was awful. I never got caught up in the movie – never felt drawn into it. It just [...]

http://news.bookweb.org/7130.html Rather than trying to argue that lower book prices are ‘harmful to consumers,” why don’t you spend your time coming up with an alternative to your doomed business model (which I strongly feel will be even more doomed once ereaders like the Kindle, Nook, etc., really gain traction in the marketplace and books become [...]

Well, yes, so I did a little proposin’ and Thao did a little acceptin’ on Saturday morning – so now it’s all nice and official – the engagement part, at least. We have been planning this for a couple of months, but it took me a little while to get the ring delivered here to [...]

I went to the campus clinic today and got checked out. Fever of 100.4f (38c). Still feeling like crap. She said I appear to have a common cold – some of the symptoms of swine flu are lacking. I am just going to take it easy and hope this goes away soon. Not a good [...]

This kind of freaks me out. My buddy, the MexiNugget, was telling me recently how the new trend in L.A. these days was “hospital crashing.” Basically people go into hospitals and pretend to be family members of a patient. After visiting hours, they hide in the room until the patient is fed and then afterwards [...]

I couldn’t sleep last night – feverish and coughing all night. Thankfully I did not have to teach today so I was able to chill out. Still not feeling great. I did have to run some errands today related to my work permit – which I am desperately trying to get before my current visa [...]

And now very tired. Needed some exercise. Hadn’t ridden for a few days – and got off of my diet this weekend. Drank some beer Friday night, ate Mexican food for lunch yesterday, and last night Thao and I had a very nice dinner at the Square One restaurant at the Park Hyatt hotel where [...]

I’m not sure what they’ve got going on in Japan, but I like it: