Category: Life

1) Shady financial practices. I had a Citibank card with a 7.9% APR “for life” on balance transfers. This was back when I had a lot of credit card debt (I currently have none, and I hope I never will again). One day Citibank sent me mail that said that they were changing the rate [...]

IMG_9860.JPG Originally uploaded by lyzadanger. My friend Duncan let me borrow a couple of flashes and an RF unit, which I put to use at the Kavi holiday party on Saturday. The results aren’t awesome, but it was fun to play around with stuff. I have sort of a natural disability when it comes to [...]

The past couple of weeks have been pretty intense with lots of hurdles popping up in the way of our new house purchase (the sale of our current house went great, however; I signed title paperwork this morning). I’ve been mostly keeping ahead of the stress from the potential-homelessness and other goodies, until Saturday night, [...]

I actually first saw this clip last week, but my GOD it’s hilarious, especially if you’re drunk: Breaking News

Here’s the trailer for Inland Empire: In my eyes David Lynch can do little wrong, although what’s with his using weird and sort of unlovable Laura Dern in practically every movie he makes?

Theoretically at noon, but already at 10:20am, I see the free and premium networks show up in my available networks. I’m busy doing a bunch of stuff on my normal network or I’d try to see if I could connect. Ah, well, maybe I’ll try…

My friend Dave Hood has a podcast of my type of music: trance/progressive. Check it out if you’re into that kind of thing.

This book failed me. I was inspired to read it because a) McCullough has won two Pulitzers; b) it’s a best-seller and thus presumably written in a populist manner; and c) my American history situation is abominable. But I realized something hard and fast while reading it–I hate reading military and war history, details of [...]

Ah, the Fates. After several days with the in-laws for Thanksgiving in freakishly sunny San Luis Obispo (technically Atascadero, but I wander), highlighted by a sea otter sighting, even, we decided to make the 15-hour trek back to Portland in a single day. As we have the dog with us, we brought David’s car, a [...]

Really pleasant; better the second time around. I don’t really have anything to say that hasn’t been said, other than the play echoes the themes that seem omnipresent in Russian literature from the turn of the 20th century (especially the general demise of the country estate culture and existentialist angst in the youthful generation). **** [...]