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September 29, 2008 We joined a historic trend today. Disconnected the home landline. From here on out, it's strictly wireless phones for us. I'd kept the landline around primarily from habit because we were using AT&T DSL for internet. But now that Webpass has us surfing at speeds 10x faster than AT&T, it's time to cut the cord.
06:23 PM
September 28, 2008 Can someone please explain to me why Facebook. Myspace, et al exist? Yeah, yeah I know. Social networking and all that crap. But really, the best I can synthesize is that their sole purpose is to unite blogging, messaging and photo galleries for people too lazy to pull together the independent (and superior) services. Maybe I'm hypocritical because I do have accounts on both sites. In my defense, acquaintances encouraged me to create them and I thought I might be missing something. But no, the services offer nothing original to my eyes. Maybe I'm missing something but I'm having trouble seeing them as much more than AOL for the 2000s.
12:09 PM
September 22, 2008 Sarah alerted me tonight that something was wrong with my commenting system. I hadn't made any changes to the script. Maybe there's a temporary error at my host. Maybe one of the spam bots that's been hitting me lately with goofy, nonsensical comments and random URLs fucked something up. Maybe one of you dear readers really really hates Al G. and took it out on my poor little server. Who knows. But it's as good an excuse as any to take a step I've been contemplating for awhile now. Kill the comments. From here on out, the entries will have no comments by default. I don't see this as a drastic step. For the past year or so, everyone who comments also has my email--except the spam bots of course. And if you don't have my address? Well, I really don't give a damn what you think.
12:08 AM
September 16, 2008
Al Goldstein has a blog! Who knew? I was going to do an Al-style Fuck You to Thomas Keller and a quick google revealed the G-Spot. If you weren't in New York when Midnight Blue ruled Manhattan Cable's Channel J, watch enough YouTube clips to get Al's voice in your head then read some of his current gems. I mean, you gotta love the First Ammendment when you find this stuff. Rude. Profane. Absolutely over the line. but oh-so hysterical.
12:02 AM
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September 15, 2008 I have a new enemy. Thomas Keller, I hate you, your pretentious restaurants and your straight-jacket policies. Good thing you know how to work the PR because you certainly are not in the service business. I routinely get better treatment at In-N-Out. Plenty of fools must be willing to keep throwing buckets of money at you; you clearly don't want or need mine. You turned what should be an exciting, joyous event into one filled with uncertainty, contention and stress. Never again. You've lost a customer for life. Anyone reading from the Bay Area should avoid at all costs The French Laundry, Bouchon, Bouchon Bakery and Ad Hoc. You'll be much happier spending your money with restaurants that want to actually serve customers.
11:14 PM
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September 14, 2008 For the record, we're back from vacation. Have been for several weeks. I've shied away from posting here recently because I'm toying with the notion of switching the backend over to WordPress. My host makes it really easy since the latest version is pre-configured on the server. And WP has an iPhone client. And this MT installation is positively ancient (circa '03). But procrastination has taken hold. I did get so far as to export all the entries and import them into a test install of WP. It worked the second time after I followed the instruction to create an author identity for myself other than the default admin. Then I ran smack into the template issue. Do I use a canned version or whack at one to make my own? Rather than make a decision I simply did nothing. So typically heroic. |
