July, 28, 2005 archives

the uniball vision is a very fine pen.

if you ever find yourself saying “i’ll get the spearmint altoids, i’m so over regular (peppermint) ones,” know that you are making a foolish mistake. peppermint owns spearmint.

i have no opinion of wintergreen yet. and cinnamon sounds like a great idea, but i fear it. ginger and licorice are also mysteries to me.

the devil and daniel johnston is playing at the laemmle grande 4-plex through monday — at 10am each day.

this must be an oscar® qualifying run, but at first i couldn’t see how running at 10am is “advertised and exploited during its los angeles run in a manner considered normal and customary to the industry.” but this is a documentary, so there’s a rule 12 exception, which just specifies that it has to be run between 10am and midnight for seven consecutive days.

goofy. i may have to check it out this weekend.

the crazy folks at yahoo appear to have hooked up a new data source to blo.gs — maybe their rss ping service? — and now a bunch of blogs like this guy’s are constantly showing up as updated in my list of blogs.

brad feld’s piece on work/life balance seems like it should have more relevance, but i’ve never had a problem with work/life balance because i work too much. i’ve had a work/life balance problem because i have no life.

it’s not always a zero-sum game.

lance arthur has wrapped up his “guide to man grooming” with a two-part final installment on clothing accessories and shirts, pants, and suits. sage advice, i guess. surely better than any that i could give.

you have a natural grace and great consideration of others.

this is probably some violation of the terms of service, but this finding in my amazon associates report is just too funny not to pass along: someone ordered on intelligence and an economy pack of trojan ultra thin lubricated latex condoms. i earned 35¢ on the referral fee for the condoms.

(if it was you, i really don’t want to hear about it. but i hope it worked out.)

the los angeles downtown news covers the excellent news that someone is leasing the million dollar theater and plans to host live events, as well as open a cafe in the lobby. an interesting footnote is that brady westwater, the president of the downtown neighborhood council, has been trying to get someone interested in the regent theater just a few doors down from me. i guess that might mean it isn’t totally gutted, which you might think it was based on the exterior.

(here’s a thought — if the million dollar theater starts hosting events on any sort of regular basis, there’s probably some location near the intersection of 3rd and broadway that would be ripe for a bar. perhaps the ground floor of the new pan american lofts building.)

another article this week reports about a spate of apartment buildings being turned into condominiums. i think i’d have a really hard decision to make if my building were to get turned into condos. (although with where the prices seem to be at for condos downtown, perhaps the decision would be made for me.)