Year: 2006
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Movie: Kill Bill, Volume 1
Kill Bill, Volume 1 was a fun DVD last weekend. Volume 2 should arrive from Netflix tomorrow, and I’m looking forward to it. Quentin Tarantino was born to make this kind of movie, a pastiche of different styles, borrowing heavily from comic books and TV shows, stitched together with gratuituous violence but with a wink…
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Movie: For Your Consideration
After Best in Show, Christopher Guest and the rest of his merry team earned the right to make most any movie they chose. With For Your Consideration, I’d suggest it’s time to revoke that license. Studded with funny actors, sprinkled with funny scenes, this extended sketch — sort of a movie novella — really doesn’t…
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RIP, James Kim
James Kim, 1971-2006 Like so many around the country (especially in the small-world of the San Francisco Internet industry), I followed the story of the Kim family over the last week. After the unexpected lift in spirits when the family was found, it was especially disheartening to get the bad news yesterday afternoon. So, we…
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Saturday links, inbox edition
I’d like a clean inbox to start next week, so it’s time to pull out the tidbits which raised themselves up above the del.icio.us level of interest, and into the “I should check this out” tier. Of course, I really haven’t given these much attention, but if I put them up here, at least my…
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My first Amazon.com order: December 17, 1997
Chad Dickerson asks “What was your first Amazon order?” So I went into Amazon, flipped back through my transaction history, and found two books I ordered on December 17, 1997. This is back when Amazon mostly sold books. 😉 The two books were The Perfect Storm : A True Story of Men Against the Sea…
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Book: The Hot Kid
Elmore Leonard’s The Hot Kid rolls right through its story like a Tommy gun through a bank guard. Yes, it’s gangsters and a dapper U.S. Marshal in the Prohibition Midwest, and the bank robbers, oil wells, road houses, and more just keep life (and death) humming along. Overall, a well-written romp, although without the cleverness…
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Book: Troubled Midnight
John Gardner’s Troubled Midnight was a jacket pickup. Meaning, I picked it up in the library after reading the book jacket and finding that one of the blurbs grabbed my attention. Readers with a taste for intelligent international suspense in the spirit of Frederick Forsyth…should find this an exciting thriller. Only after I got home…
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2006 Run Wild 5K
Three days after running 5K in 19:22, I put in an 18:57 at Run Wild. According to the official results, 29th place overall, 7th in the M30-39 age group, with a 6:07 minutes/mile pace. I’d have to drop 90 seconds to get to top three in the age group. Not gonna happen. The dinosaur T-shirt…
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Racing on Turkey Day
On Thanksgiving morning, I started by being thankful that Golden Gate Park is home to so many road races, including the 2006 Run for the Hungry. I entered both the mile, run at 8am, and the 5K, run 30 minutes later. I am running the Academy of Sciences race later this morning, again doing the…
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Having a sense of humor at work is important
If my colleagues didn’t support a sense of whimsy and my sense of humor (?), I never would have been able to post this faux press release just before Thanksgiving. For the record, I’m usually a no cranberries man, but on turkey sandwiches after the big day, the canned sauce is much more spreadable. This…