Author: jkonrath
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The journal pit
I wanted to write a big post bitching about the new Facebook design, but it’s hopeless and a waste of time. I’ve wrung hands over the fact that I spend too much time there, and eventually that rug will be yanked from under me and it will become as fruitful as logging on to Friendster…
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default apologies
Enter the standard disclaimer here about never posting and needing to post something more often and how I’m going to be pissed ten years from now when I go back to find out what I was doing in 2014 and find out that entire months went by with no updates. I’ve actually done well with…
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A letter to Mark Cuban
I was going through old mail and found this letter I wrote to Mark Cuban at some point last year. I never got a response. I think my goal was to keep writing mail to him until I got a response or was told to stop, but like most projects, I lost interest. Here it…
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Ode to a 2008 Toyota
I bought a new car yesterday. I didn’t plan on it, but I walked away with a 2014 Prius C Two, with 12 miles on the odometer. I’d originally planned on getting my old car fixed so it would pass emissions, because the wiring was messed up after my 2009 wreck. But when the service…
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2013 in review
It’s January 4th, which might make it too late to write one of those year-in-review posts, but I will try anyway. I’ve been insanely busy getting ParagraphLine.com going, and you should be reading that, too. But I thought I’d take a second to make a humblebrag list of what I got done 2013. First, I…
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I wish someone would slap me every time I think probiotics will make my life complete
I always get disoriented when I fly open-jawed and land in an airport that’s different than the one I left from. I don’t remember the last time I did it, but last night I landed in SFO a week and a half after departing from OAK, and it really fucked me up. I walked down…
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Jelly Donut. Jelly Donut. Jelly Donut.
I don’t even remember the last time I’ve updated this. Every time I think about writing something here, I either can’t think of something cool and mind-bending and I think it’s stupid to go here and write “I went to Target today,” or I think of something cool and think it needs to go in…
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Twenty Years
I’m writing from the Maui airport, getting ready to board the big silver tube that shoots me across the Pacific and back to the land of wearing full-length pants and bitching about smog and seasonal depression. (And excuse the typos and formatting fuckups here – I’m typing on the extremely buggy WordPress for iOS program,…
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Look at my knees! Look at my knees!
First things first: go to The Lit Pub and read this review of Thunderbird: http://thelitpub.com/featured-books/thunderbird-flash-stories/ I am still working on two projects, switching back and forth when one gets to be too much. One is just starting, and the other is getting close to 100,000 words, but is still very vague in its overall structure.…
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My Daily Carry
Everyone else on various gadget and tech sites has been doing this lately, so I thought I would, too. Here’s a picture and explanation of every item I carry in my pockets on a daily basis: The items are: Serrated bread knife. Soaring Society of America glider pilot flight log. Butcher knife. $250 in Confederate…