Mar 27 2008
Spokeo is an amazing website/online app thingie that imports your contact lists from your email, webmail and social network accounts and creates a comprehensive list of what everyone you've ever been in contact with is up to. My God, for a quiet, lonely hermit, my life is quite an open book online.
Mar 15 2008
The only good thing that comes to mind about living a spartan life limited to home, commuting and work is that it doesn't take much at all to make me happy.
Mar 10 2008
Last weekend, like most weekends, Tony sat in my lap while playing Counter Strike on my PC. This is our bonding time. I use it to teach him new words and phrases in English, and when he play CS he seems to think in English more than usual.
I asked him, "Do you know any bad words in English?" He thought for a second and exclaimed, "Dingleberry!" He likes that word a lot, but I told him it's not that bad. So I asked if he knew any words that would get him smacked if he said them in front of Baba (my mother.) The best he could muster was "Fat girl."
It makes me proud of myself to realize that for the past 10 years I have been so patient and careful of a father that I've never cursed in front of or at my kids. I've never lost my temper when they leave on every goddamn light in the house, I've never threated to kick their asses for goofing off when they're supposed to be getting ready for bed, and I watch my language when I'm playing video games with them. But once they hit their teens and start really screwing up, I wonder how long I'll be able to keep their ears safe.
Mar 08 2008
It smells like a bonfire made from burning tires on a New Jersey beach at low tide on a hot summer day.
Guess which family resturant. Easy question for anyone who's lived in Japan.
