Author Archives: DAK

Yeah, so I’m the #4 Google-hit for cheap penis pinatas. Here’s hoping for number one! The mind boggles.

For a while now, friends and family have been telling me that they are sure that I’ve been kicked around enough over the last year, that things are going to turn around for me, that things really couldn’t possibly get … Continue reading →

My time here in the Silicon Valley is, mercifully, coming to an end this week. No longer will I have to deal with the unfriendliness of the population, the traffic (the 405 ain’t got nothing on the Sunol Grade), the … Continue reading →

Iraqi Pipelines Are Pumping Oil Again Many Iraqis have complained bitterly, and frequently, about U.S. forces rushing to secure oil fields and the capital’s oil ministry, leaving other ministries, universities, museums, hospitals and businesses to be looted and burned. U.S. … Continue reading →

Jane, you ignorant slut I struggled for a good 20 minutes with this map of the Middle East/North Africa. It’s really quite embarrassing (but fun-educational), trying to pull up random geography knowledge (though I am positive that I was never … Continue reading →

There’s a sign at the refrigerator here at work that says: DO NOT REMOVEFOOD OR BEVERAGETHATDOES NOTBELONG TO YOU spelled, punctuated, and presented as shown. Like I really want someone’s sad tuna sandwich and diet Pepsi… I have my own … Continue reading →

As I finish up my contract work in the Silicon Valley, I’ll be driving back and forth to L.A. every weekend to move the last of my stuff, and see ADG. This, my virtual friends, is a whole hell of … Continue reading →

ADG in Joshua Tree

I got paid today. For the first time in over a year, my monthly income is greater than my expense. I’m not sure how I feel about that. It’s good, to be sure, and I’ll be sad to see it … Continue reading →

Allow me to ask a stupid question. Or, rather, there are no such things as stupid questions, though this one, gernerally is. More correctly, there is nothing intrinsic in the question itself to make it stupid, rather it is the … Continue reading →