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Important

• 01.19.12
  I can has update?
  Important, General (0)

  Hey Internet, this site used to host my thoughts on some of the personal projects I worked on in high school and college. Since college is merely a distant memory to me now, it's no longer updated. Since I'm usually doing professional work, not personal stuff, there wouldn't be much to update it with anyway. Nevertheless, all of the content here is quaint, so it's worth keeping online. It's now here as an archive of a time long gone when things like Youtube and Spotify didn't exist and everyone was excited about the idea of 24p standard definition video cameras and ...
  
  
• 07.10.10
  Thank Me Later
  2010, Important (1)

  After over three years of acting as my stalwart, 100% uptime, ever-vigilant online presence, Is it Obvious?, is being taken down. Take heart though. From this site's charred remains, something better, will rise up -- Phoenix-like -- from the ashes. Stay turned the grand opening of a new website in place of this one within about 3-4 months. Like a struggling network television show, the site will be retooled, new characters will be written in, and the final product will be unrecognizable to anyone who enjoyed it in the past. For now, take a look around at some of the old posts while ...
  
  
• 09.13.09
  Moving Boxes
  2009, Important, Musings, Writing (0)

  by raien Skittles (written July 19th) Apartment moves are traumatic. I realized that about five minutes ago as I dug through a recycling bin to find something I'd lost. It was a red plastic heart that had been filled with Skittles at one point -- one of many things Nora sent me last Valentines Day. She paid over $20 to Express mail it to me so it would arrive on time for Valentines. I'd kept the box it was mailed in for the last 5 months because it was filled with some nice memories. Yesterday, I filled it with year-old notebooks and binders ...
  
  
• 07.06.09
  Michael Jackson Jokes
  2009, Important, Musings, Writing (2)

  Michael Jackson Jokes by N i c o_ I met a 78 year-old man who told me that he thought he'd die before Michael Jackson. We'd met across the street from Grauman's Chinese Theater while watching the crowd of people stand in line to see Michael Jackson's Walk of Fame star. I hadn't planned to be there to visit Michael Jackson. Nora and I had planned a trip to see some LA landmarks -- Grauman's was one of them. Until Michael Jackson died yesterday, the last time I'd thought about him was when Matt Ruecker and I proposed the theory that a DJ ...
  
  
• 01.18.09
  Lowery v. Motor Works
  2008, Important, Musings, Writing (0)

  My Day In Court. photo by wallyg A headline like, "Circuit City Bankrupt; Closes 567 Stores," doesn't hit as close to home when you're in school and not looking for a job. If you do have a job, you're one of the lucky ones. The self-doubt and rejection of not being able to find work gets replaced by the slightly less threatening specter of fear that you might be downsized or replaced by a computer. None of that seemed to be relevant though during my visit to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals until the bailiff announced the next case, Lowery v. Motor ...
  
  
• 12.26.08
  Can I borrow a cigarette?
  2008, Important, Musings, Writing (0)

  She's My Best Friend A lot of people I hear from sound sad. Christmas and the New Year does that to people in a way that you don't realize when you're still young enough to look forward to presents and you're barely able to stay up past midnight to watch the ball drop. They're sad in a way you don't really understand until you graduate college or the first year you spend a holiday away from home. There's a snack machine that sells lottery tickets at the grocery store. The last time I saw it, every roll of tickets -- from Easy ...
  
  
• 12.11.08
  A Love Story
  2008, Important, Musings, Writing (0)

  Planned Parenthood. I walk by the San Diego planned parenthood everyday on my way to school. The security guard is out front everyday -- out the glass doors, down the ramp, on the sidewalk -- from 8am to 5pm. At least those are the hours I see him -- 8am when I get to school and 5pm when I leave some days. There are two ways you can enter a Planned Parenthood. If you're one of the lucky ones, you're a 22 years old girl in blue jeans holding hands with some guy who must be your boyfriend. He's wearing basketball shorts. If ...