On October 4th, I started off my 1-month trip through Germany, Austria and the Balkans with a wicked hangover, jet lag and a vicious cold. Straight off the plane to Munich, I met up with my friend, Eric, to hit the last night of Oktoberfest. We started in the massive Hofbrauhaus tent and downed two… Read more »
It’s pretty awkward until you start slamming beers. Then it’s like any other party except you have a much better excuse to talk to chicks. Good times.
Thanks to everyone who showed up for my birthday party. We threw a Scientology-themed rager, in case you didn’t hear. Yard: trashed. House: trashed. Cat: missing (briefly).
I’ve found that once you spend a stupid amount of money on a pair of designer jeans, it’s very easy to do it again from that point on. In the same day. Not that I did that. Just saying.
Hey, folks! What do you get when you let non-designers design Web pages?! Are you feeling queasy? Good times. Here’s a barf bag.
Happy Fourth of July. Here is a picture of me drinking beer with some girls. Yay. And here’s me and Da Regulator at a Fourth of July BBQ. Can I just say the meat was off the hook?
Bad keystroke leads to $251 million stock buy “Fubon said that the trader was unfamiliar with new computer systems and will be fired.” It’s a sad, sad day when the blame for such a massive mistake is placed on the user. Training or no, the responsibility for something that grave falls on the shoulders of… Read more »
ASP .NET programmers are now going for $15/hour. Sure, it’s ASP .NET, but nonetheless a disconcerting sign for those of us who make our living writing code. Two questions pop into my mind, though. First, what kind of programmer do you get for $15? Can he think outside the box? Can he code with scalability… Read more »
[Jason’s note: Three Days in Hell.A. is the account of two college journalists — David Downs (writer) and myself (photographer) — and our experience at the 2000 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, CA. It was originally published in August 2000 on jasonschock.com. The original story is preserved at the Internet Archive.]