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I was supposed to go up to Justin’s place north of Sacramento this past weekend to prepare for burning man. But on Thursday night Justin reported that conditions were unfavorable due raging fires in the area.
Suddenly I found myself with a free weekend. I had been considering going to Irvine for a while to visit [...]
Entries from July 2008
Irvine
July 14th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Memoirs
Tags: irvine
Ian Bowman Exclusive Report
July 12th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized
I’m going to Irvine tomorrow. Well, actually today. First I will sleep.
THIS CONCLUDES THE IAN BOWMAN EXCLUSIVE REPORT
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Default VI: Employer
July 10th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Favorites, Penetrating Insight
Default employer of boring guys: Google.
God damn guys that work at Google are boring. Don’t tell my ex-girlfriend I said that. Just kidding, you can tell her. She works at Google so of course she knows it.
Default things that guys that work at Google want to talk about:
Google.
Googlers
Being Googly.
I hate how at Google they have [...]
Fifteen Years In America: Five Of Which I Spent Getting High On Weed, And The Other Ten Of Which I Spent Being Apathetic And Unmotivated, In Other Words, Being An American. Oh Yeah, Plus Another Fifteen In Which I Finally Got My Act Together And Capitalized On Newfound Productivity Gains From Snorting Large Amounts Of Coke - Chapter 1
July 8th, 2008 · 7 Comments · Memoirs
The title is complete bullshit. Well, maybe not complete bullshit. But the content is the true story of my life. I was inspired by thebaglady’s continuing translations of her Dad’s story, Fifteen Years In America and motivated by this comment that I left regarding it.
1982 was like the life of a different person.
My dad, my [...]
Tags: fifteenyears·peninsula·private school·sunnyvale
Red Glare
July 4th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Penetrating Insight
People sometimes tell me I’m crazy. Alright, not sometimes. Just about everyday someone says to me “Ian, you’re crazy.” They want to know why I do the things I do. Sometimes it’s like they’re saying to themselves “What? You can’t do that! You can’t say that!”
You can.
America is supposed to be a free country, isn’t [...]
Tags: fourth of july·usa
Favorite Reader Comments, June 2008
July 2nd, 2008 · 6 Comments · Reviews
Simply put, I love comments. Even negative comments. I love attention. Even negative attention. I guess that’s just one of the things I have in common with Paris Hilton.
Anyways, here are my favorite reader comments from June, 2008.
BEST COURTEOUS COMPLIMENT REGARDING COMPLETELY OFFENSIVE POST
From: Missy on The Real Thing
I was in desperate need of inspiration, [...]
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Back For More
July 1st, 2008 · 4 Comments · Travel
GRANDEUR
the thing about a rendezvous is, it’s easy for it to not happen. what would I do if A didn’t text me about where to meet her, her seven friends, and her sister who liked to get drunk and be crude?
I thought about that in the heat of Vegas. 105 degrees.
room 763 in a [...]
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