Archive for September, 2008


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Seattle with JJ

Published Date: September 28th, 2008
Category: Travelogues


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Sleepless in…

Published Date: September 25th, 2008
Category: Life as a Peon, Travelogues

Ahaha. You guessed it. Eh. Ano ba yun.
Anyway. Seattle is Baguio with a big lake in the middle. Conifers, houses with half a landing and wooden shingled walls, parking on inclines. Seattle is beautiful. I bought a t-shirt for JJ at the company store. It has ones and zeros and is geeky but cute.
Things I [...]

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The Mist

Published Date: September 18th, 2008
Category: Eire, Mellon Collie

Some days in Ireland I feel like I’m living in a greenhouse. There’s a blanket of gray clouds heavy with rain floating close to the ground, and beyond that the shadow of the sun. Like, literally you can see the sun above the clouds, like shining a flashlight under the covers. And then the rain [...]

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Paris with Aya

Published Date: September 16th, 2008
Category: Travelogues


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LOLzers for the day

Published Date: September 10th, 2008
Category: Danmark

http://www.cphpost.dk/get/108917.html
Money quote:
‘The people are much more polite here,’ Wilson added
What is it today, April Fools?

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Bray and Dalkey

Published Date: September 8th, 2008
Category: Travelogues


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Creationist Nerds. They Exist.

Published Date: September 6th, 2008
Category: Life as a Peon, Nerdee, Pissed Off

I had the most surreal experience the other day with our team’s IT guy over lunch. This is a guy who has been married for more than a decade and has children. He is undoubtedly nerdy, complete with high-waisted pants and worn-down copies of Network Administration books. He eats breakfast in the cafeteria in front [...]

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Copenhagen and the Last Days of Summer

Published Date: September 3rd, 2008
Category: Travelogues

To be honest if I never go back to Copenhagen I really wouldn’t mind - I have a handful - nay, a pinchful - of good friends there, but that’s about the extent of whatever good memories I have.
But last weekend was perfect in the way that you expect late summer days to be - [...]