jake_lex

So here is my Bad Driving Experience of the day: I was driving down one of the main highways in my city, going home. I was behind a pick-up truck, a fairly old one in pretty bad shape. There were three guys in it: the driver and the passenger farthest to the right looked to be about 40 or so, and the passenger in the...
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So here is a summary of my Saturday:

--The first thing that happened was that my laptop died. Well, not the whole thing, just the hard drive. I didn't lose that much data; I was kind of expecting that to happen, really, because it's been throwing up bad sectors and just generally making way too much noise and reading badly for a while, so I've...
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I was trapped in my house all day by an ice storm. Unlike the ice storm here last year, the power never went out, so I could at least find things to do, but there is a point where there is simply nothing more you can do in your house, and you need to go out to find something.

I managed, though. And in a...
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Technical geek note of the day: you should run out and download Mozilla Firebird now. It kicks IE in the ass, then turns it around and kicks it hard in the nuts.

One warning: it's still in beta, so there's a possibility some nasty bug could pop up, but, so far, that hasn't happened to me, and this browser runs so much faster than IE...
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For some reason, I've gone a couple of days without shaving. So I have quite a bit of stubble on my face.

I was looking at it, and I thought that it doesn't look that bad. So I am pondering letting it grow out.

That's pretty much it for now, except that I finally got to watch the extended version of The Two Towers last...
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I feel like such a Philistine now.

So I'm watching CBS This Morning, and this report comes on about the Farnsworth House in Illinois. There's an architectural critic on who goes on and on about what a masterpiece of Bauhaus architecture this is (they were a decent band, not sure how they do as architects, but "Bela Lugosi's Dead" is a good song), and, at...
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This afternoon, at a grocery store, I heard the most depressing song ever written.

So what is it? One of Joy Division's ode to suicidal despair? A Nine Inch Nails song?

No, it's "Let's Twist Again" by Chubby Checker. It's just three minutes of sheer desperation, of a man knowing that obscurity is right around the corner, that his little brush with fame is ending....
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So a few days ago, I logged on to the web site of my credit card, and found, much to my surprise, I was paying for someone's cell phone.

Since then, I've had a real pain in the ass trying to prevent any damage. That credit card is now no more (hopefully, I get the new number before it's time to pay for SG again),...
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My car is about 50 miles away from 100,000 miles. Given the fact that my daily commute to work is about 15 miles round trip, I think I'll probably hit it on Tuesday.

I'm thinking about buying a new car, but I don't know what I want. And I've liked being able to use the money I'd have spent on a car payment for other...
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I picked up the book Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson today. It's a huge, massive, 900 plus page tome that I'm not sure I'll ever actually have time to read. But it should be a lot of fun when I do.

We're having the first really winter-like day of the year today. It's cold, and drizelly, and I left my favorite jacket at work on Friday,...
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My big activity for the night: I am watching "The Big Lebowski".

Fuck Citizen Kane. This is the best movie of all time.

"Did I urinate on your rug? Hello? Do you speak English, sir? Parla usted Ingles? I'll ask you again. Did I urinate on your rug? I just want to understand this. Every time a rug is nicturated upon in this fair city,...
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