From my diary, May 2002

I have been transcribing some of my old journals today and came upon the following entry, which I think is a fairly interesting one as I generally write journal entries as a means of keeping a record of my exploits.  Make what you will of them, as I have no real reason for posting them [...]

The Coder

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It was an unremarkable room, where I worked, nestled inside a long hallway underneath Sixth Avenue. Mostly it was gray and crowded with desks and boxes. It was quite symmetrical, though, because the steward of the room, my boss, thought in straight lines and even numbers. There was nothing alive there, [...]

An update and an excerpt from my novel-in-progress: Life of Prufrock

I am halfway through my novel and can see the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel. The tough thing about writing seriously is setting a schedule and sticking to it. Just yesterday I reckoned that I’m either going to cloister myself away in a motel up north for a few weeks and finish [...]

Untitled 12/28/07

            If I am to be honest, then let it be with this: I hate the way I smile.  Rather, I hate the way I look when I smile—so much so that I routinely destroy photographic evidence of my smiles upon first encounter.   This is the toughest thing that I can confess at the moment.  [...]

Hello again.

Well, you’re probably wondering where this blog has been for the last few weeks… so, here’s the dirt.  For one thing, the last incarnation of this blog was unfocused.  Sure, a blog about nothing is a lot of fun, and perhaps it’s just what the internet needs… or maybe not…  At any rate, I have decided [...]