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Dear gentle reader: this blog has been operating continuously since I was a teenager. The writing below is at least a decade old. In that time every molecule of my body has been replaced, along with many foolish ideas and flighty beliefs. I want to keep some of those things public out of an honesty and humility I owe the world. I trust you to carry that context with you.

November 9, 2003 /

Fiddling with Layla today, I finally (accidentally) broke off the little grey tip on the antenna that allows you to extend / retract it easily. Elapsed Prediction Time: 5 months, 10 days.

Hat News

October 27, 2003 /

This should have been posted last Friday, but I didn’t get the chance. From the pokéblog.

  1. I get on the elevator to head home, at the same time as a vaguely nice woman I recognize but don’t know. After a second, she looks up at my hat and says “Goin’ fishing?”

    “Heh. No,” I say.

    She then bursts into peals of laughter, repeating her joke and bursting afresh every time someone new gets onto the elevator. She laughs for twelve floors.

  2. We stop at Atherton High and a buch of kids get on, and one of them is wearing a red bucket hat! Like mine! The only one I’ve seen in real life! I prepare to return his casual “I acknowledge you” nod, but he never glances my way. He’s way too cool for me.

October 24, 2003 /

And speaking of Amazon, why is my Gold Box almost entirely kitchenware? It can’t be a random survey of inventory–I know they have more books and music than, say, S’More Makers. They must be pretty desperate to ship that stuff.

October 3, 2003 /

Gonna go give blood now.

Kind of worried that it’s gonna hurt.

More worried about what all the no-sleep toxins in my blood are going to do to whoever gets it.

This is what it’s like to live in Brendan’s head.

August 25, 2003 /

When you live in Brendan’s head, you can be silently gloating over the fact that you don’t have to get up early tomorrow, since you’re going to class, not work, and class doesn’t start until 1100 hrs. In fact, you can do this while making your sandwich for lunch at work tomorrow.

And that’s what it’s like to live in Brendan’s head.

August 25, 2003 /

I just listened to two people having a conversation on the telephone while literally five feet away from each other. They could hear one another clearly before their voices ever came out the speaker on the other end. Welcome to technology!

August 19, 2003 /

Heads up: I’m going to be moving the site soon to new digs over at PHPWebhosting. The URL and links and stuff won’t change, but if it gets weird for a while just wait, it’ll be back. Promise!