Category Archives: minutiae

Genuinly uncategorical, or things I have been too lazy to categorize

100 Book, New Year Goal

Posted on 1/16/2008 by derick

I am so underread. (And only someone underread would even dare use an expression as ‘underread’.) It’s true, I don’t know a lick of contemporary literature. Except for the names you can’t escape, like Dan Brown, Rowling, or Tolkien, the … Continue reading →

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Desert of Sorrows

Posted on 1/3/2008 by derick

Desert of Sorrows A Strange Desert, Wretched and ill foreboding, A land of Barren plains. Yet ‘fore hope went dry, Steady rhythm resounded, And upon me a Rider came. “To where’s the sun?”, I asked, “And its lesser lantern pair? … Continue reading →

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Imaginary Lines

Posted on 12/10/2007 by derick

I accept the monotony of the routined life implicitly almost all the time: getting up, dressing up, showering, working, laughing, playing, teasing, eating, drinking, yelling, reading, sleeping. And then to repeat that refrain, repeat that refrain, till it would seem … Continue reading →

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Ron Paul: disguised as a politician

Posted on 11/11/2007 by derick

For a while now, “hopefuls” for the 2008 presidential election, have been, well, “hopeless”. They have been nothing more to me than peripheral annoyance. Like that buzzing fly that keeps flapping in your ears, and after every shoo and slap … Continue reading →

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Daylight’s Savings Day!

Posted on 11/5/2007 by derick

It is the most wonderful time of the year. (Now, re-read that last sentence chirping that tireless melody — yes, you know which one.) Christmas doesn’t come in December — silly rabbit — it comes in November (now). Daylight’s savings … Continue reading →

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The Afternoon Coup

Posted on 9/23/2007 by derick

Two men, one old, one older, Sat together, fierce in thoughts, Yet mutely lashing each n’other. The one had pinned his mare, To the very chambers of his stable. The other slyly skimped perimeter, Advancing slowly towards the center. And … Continue reading →

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Chris and I at the casino

Posted on 7/10/2007 by derick

Today, after work, on Payday-Friday, a hazy, mid-summer afternoon, I went with my friend Chris to a place in Rhode Island called Twin Rivers: a newer slightly less trashy—still white trashy—RI casino. I don’t gamble, nor do I ever go … Continue reading →

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Back from Virginia

Posted on 7/9/2007 by derick

After arriving last week from a family trip to the snail-looking state of Virigina, I’ve come to a conclusion: there is absolutely nothing to see in Virginia. True, there are some mountains. True, even some grass, and a couple of … Continue reading →

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Old Technologuy

Posted on 7/2/2007 by derick

I’m Asian, dorky, and male. All those things combined might suggest that I would want an Iphone. However, truth be told, I do not. I don’t know when or why, but I’ve lost all interest in new technology. I was … Continue reading →

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Work, Sleep, “You Time”

Posted on 6/29/2007 by derick

I was thinking about work the other day. Not about my particular job per se, but more generally, the concept, the institution. Now please, hear me out. I know this already sounds like the preamble to some pot-head’s Friday night … Continue reading →

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