Dear diary readers

It’s been awhile since we’ve talked, all of you and I. Here’s what’s going on with me:

I took the day off yesterday. Recovering from sickness.

I’m trying out TextMate after hearing good things about it from Jason Fried. I’m not a huge fan of BBEdit, so I’m always on the lookout for good text editors. Still getting the hang of it.

Last week, I saw a guy almost get hit by a van while crossing the street. He was pissed and understandably so. He was in the crosswalk with the walk signal and the guy in the van was super aggressive in trying to get through; the guy actually had to run out of the way to avoid being knocked down. The guy was so pissed that when the van finally stopped to let him pass, he reached through the window and beat the driver on the head with his cell phone. As a sympathetic pedestrian, I almost went over there to help him.

You can’t even begin to imagine the fascinatingly insightful concept I was explaining in this photo. Perhaps “I can’t believe my eyebrows are so bushy” or “That bottle of water…it’s like, whoa.”

If you look in the Activity Viewer and see that the Finder process is pegging your CPU at 90-95%, ask yourself if you’ve dragged a photo from iPhoto to the Desktop. If so, trash it and try to empty the Trash. If you cannot empty it because the file is still in use, run Force Empty Trash, reboot, and you’re golden. God bless Google for helping me with the answer.

I owe you a post about McSweeney’s #13. Jesus, that was more than 2 months ago. I’m sorry. (I also owe you a Last 100 Posts roundup. Sorry.) (Oh, and I also owe you the answer to the Ken Jennings question, but I can’t actually tell you what it is yet. Nor can I tell you why I can’t tell you. Sorry.) So basically, I’m really behind on a lot.

I miss when this weblog was more freeform. Stupid post titles and permalinks.

Got a new camera. Results soon.

So what’s up with you?