Author Archives: DAK

Hair Today, Shorn Tomorrow So a while ago I decided, for lack of anything better to do, to see what I’d look like with a beard. After about a week and a half, it went from 5 o’clock-sexy to beginning-scraggly-is-that-egg-stuck-in-there, … Continue reading →

Things I did this weekend that I didn’t take pictures of .: made fondue. both cheese and chocolate.: fixed a toilet, broke a door, helped paint a wall and strip a table.: danced danced danced.: saw High Fidelity for the … Continue reading →

I walked out of OSH, singing the refrain from the pumped-in music under my breath: Anything you want, you got itAnything you need, you got itAnything at all, you got it. Baaaaabyyyy and walked next-door into Albertsons where it picked … Continue reading →

What the huh?Caption this please.

Reject Dave,Unfortunately, we will not be moving forward with you at this time.Good luck to you. Sincerely,Moriarty No no.. no need to sugar-coat it or anything. I can take it.

I voted. Did you? As liberal as I am, I’m afraid that Gray Davis just didn’t pull through for California. I’m not sorry I helped get him elected, but I’m not stoked about my power going out, the increased traffic … Continue reading →

From one of the many job-related e-mails I get a day: When the job market was booming it took an average of 3 interviews to get 1 job offer. Now it takes 17. And interviews are harder to get. It’s … Continue reading →

Despite what Wired reports via an American-born business writer living in Israel, the Silicon Valley is dead, deceased, ka-put, muerto, and otherwise just not what she used to be. Strange, really, for one such as me to be contradicting a … Continue reading →

Jason Mizell aka Jam Master Jay1965-2002

Experiments in Grubbiness You all may remember a post a bit ago in which I lamented some of the things I’d learned/not done since becoming unemployed; one of which was grow a goattee/beard. Yeah well. See how I made it … Continue reading →