September, 11, 2005 archives

damn.

because it is always a good idea to have one that is up-to-date, here’s my unabridged résumé.

if i were sending this out, the abridged (one-page) version would cut out the work experience prior to knowledge adventure, the whole honors and awards section, and all of the published works and presentations before 2003, if not that whole section. but that does remind me, i could probably add some of the articles i wrote for mysql’s developer zone to the unabridged version.

i can’t believe the experience at homepage.com only lasted fifteen months. and in not too long, my job with mysql will be the one i’ve stuck with the longest.

if you were me, you might find the one liter bottle of blackthorn cider to be the perfect amount to get a good buzz going. and at $3/bottle at trader joe‘s, it’s a pretty good deal.

blackthorn isn’t my favorite cider, but there appears to have been a decline in the number of hard ciders you can get around here. i remember there being one bar i went to a few times that actually had a cider on tap, and spaceland used to have it in bottles. the last time i remember a bar having anything close was when they had pear cider, which just isn’t the same.

anyway, it was a good complement to the not-so-good second half of the game today.

here’s an interesting list of hangover remedies. and just because you take a nap after drinking in the early afternoon and wake up feeling fine, don’t think you’re out of the woods yet — there’s still plenty of time for the dehydration to kick in before morning. ugh.

i wonder how long we’ll be hearing about the “one cable that provides power to the whole damn city,” or if people will actually wrap their heads around the idea that the majority of the outage was caused by systems shutting down to protect themselves.

i didn’t have quite as close a call as dave, but if the backout had hit downtown about five minutes later than it did, i probably would have been stuck on an elevator.

some people might find the lyrics for “walking stick blues” very funny.

but those people are sick in the head.

march of the penguins, which is an apparent bright spot in a lackluster summer for the hollywood studios, started out with what sounds like really terrible voiceover work that was replaced with the narration by morgan freeman.

the most amazing part may be is that this was apparently done at the behest of the studio (warner bros.).

when you discuss movies about los angeles, chinatown is likely to be near the top of everyone’s list. it’s playing at the arclight on wednesday as part of the afi at arclight series. there’s also a screening of the player coming up on september 20.

no word on when the crocodile dundee in los angeles screening is.