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Curses, Hipster!

January 21, 2012 Money / Stories / Television
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I just watched the new episode of Port­landia, and I have to say, they are still doing an excel­lent job of mock­ing the hip­ster scene.

They also prove the The­ory of Hip­ster Rel­a­tiv­ity:

(from Dustin­land.)

In the above spec­trum, I would place myself some­where around the sec­ond (brown jacket) or third (ironic t-​shirt) guy from the left. But I could see myself eas­ily becom­ing the sixth guy — I like older fash­ions, espe­cially bow-​ties; and I am get­ting more and more into home-​brew and gen­eral DIY. I find myself laugh­ing at the ridicu­lous­ness of Fred and Carrie’s antics half of the time and going, “Oh shit, I do that!” the other half.

Any­way, I bring it up because of the Net­flix sketch in the new episode. Not to spoil any­thing, but Show ▼

Thank­fully, I no longer share my bedroom.

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One for the Money

January 15, 2012 Books / Money / Movies / Read-A-Day 2012 / Television
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While I was work­ing on the prob­lems with my Kin­dle yes­ter­day, I was intrigued by the Kin­dle ad for a con­test to attend the movie pre­mière of Janet Evanovich’s One for the Money in New York, so I picked up the book.

It was a pretty short read and I pounded through it in just under a day — a fun read, and the newbie-​female per­spec­tive was fresh. I can see Plum being taken in a lot of dif­fer­ent direc­tions, which is obvi­ously true since there’s some­thing like sev­en­teen books in the series now, despite the fact that the first one was pub­lished in 2005. I have to admit, Kather­ine Heigl seems like a good fit for Stephanie Plum — she’s got the flus­tered female thing down pat.

Any­way, this made me want to read some more hard-​hitting mys­tery. Should I re-​read Sher­lock Holmes? (By the way, have you been fol­low­ing the sec­ond sea­son of Sher­lock? So good!)

On sec­ond thought, I should try some­thing new. What’s the best mys­tery novel you’ve read?

Fully Restored

May 14, 2011 Friends / Health / Life, the Universe, and Everything / Money / Pictures / Post-A-Day 2011 / Travel
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Tim C and I just got to our hotel room near the undis­closed jump loca­tion and, of course, as soon as we checked in, I am no longer tired. So here I am, sit­ting in bed, munch­ing hap­pily away on a sadly no longer mouth-​scaldingly hot McDonald’s apple pie (did you fol­low that train of descrip­tors?) and I thought I’d throw up another post before I knock out.

For some rea­son, this year came with more renewal than usual.

I had to renew my license, and since I got LASIK, I had to go into the DMV office and do their let­ter board test instead of just send­ing back their form in the mail. If you saw my tweet, you know that I was con­cerned about get­ting my new license in time for cel­e­bra­tions this week­end, since I couldn’t get an appoint­ment until April 28th. Luck­ily, it did come in the mail this week. The new secu­rity mea­sures are pretty crazy! I’m glad I don’t need fakes anymore.

Besides that, my Schwab debit card expired in April and I got a replace­ment for that. Then my credit card com­pany told me on May 1st that a place I had used my card reported to them that their trans­ac­tion his­tory had been com­pro­mised, so my credit card was can­celed and they were send­ing me a new one.

Yes­ter­day, while I was run­ning some errands, I finally remem­bered to replace the bat­tery on my wrist­watch, which had iron­i­cally died back on dig­i­tal day. It feels good to have the famil­iar weight on again, even if I am no longer in the habit of check­ing the time on my wrist. It’ll come back.

Per­haps finally, this week’s NERT class reminded me that I need to make an appoint­ment to go get my var­i­ous booster shots. I haven’t had any since (show­ing my age, here…) ten years ago, when I got my menin­gi­tis and hepati­tis (I think it was for type B) shots.

Oh, and my pass­port expired this year, but I’m not going out of coun­try any time soon.

All in all, I am in many ways a new man!

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