Author Archives: Chris

  • Charlie: Fix that.
  • MacKenzie: How?
  • Charlie: You put a help wanted ad in the paper for someone who can do your job.
  • MacKenzie: Good. Anything else?
  • Charlie: I just want to know that it didn’t happen.
  • MacKenzie: That’s not easy to do.
  • Charlie: You should include in the ad that applicants need to be able to do hard things.

— From an episode of Newsroom

• #quote#tv#work

Office with water view

Working remotely is difficult due to distractions. Like when a water pipe in your downstairs ceiling bursts and rains on your belongings while you’re in the middle of coding. Downstairs flooded. Water shut off. -1,000,000 points, New York.

• #new-york#work

Forwarded mail

  • Alienman: Been trying the carless lifestyle
  • Chris: Carless is the future! Or it will be my future: I realized my driver’s license expired after finding the renewal notice in a stack of mail 3 months late.

• #alienman#chat

Well, it’s no wonder.
I’ve taken some wonder drugs.
I feel wonderful!

—Found haiku in Frasier (Season 1, Episode 23)

• #found-haiku#tv

But as anything that is exciting to people, it will often be co-opted by others who aren’t as disciplined about it and all of a sudden it becomes cliché.

— David Fincher in an interview with Art of the Title

• #art#quote

Nothing works up my
appetite like wallowing
in bureaucracy.

—Found haiku in Yelp review of In-N-Out Burger (source)

• #found-haiku

Farm fog

View from Pippin Hill Farm in North Garden, Virginia

• #photo#travel#virginia

Daisy’s 8-year-old sister showed me her website this morning. Work harder friends, these kids are gunning for our spot.

• #work

I wish you could have
the childhood I had, but that’s
not gonna happen.

—Found haiku in The Walking Dead (Season 2, Episode 12)

• #found-haiku#tv

Bangers

Lemon Andersen at his Straightrazor book launch in Fort Greene, Brooklyn

Previously: Somewhere in the world, Brooklyn’s in the house

• #new-york#photo#poetry

Do you know any
other garbage men who live
in a house like this?

—Found haiku in The Sopranos (Season 1, Episode 4)

• #found-haiku#tv

In the middle of wet paint

At Nostrand Ave. subway station in Brooklyn, NY

• #music#new-york#photo

I could not think of
a better scenic background
on my wedding day!

—Found haiku in Yelp review of Brooklyn Bridge (source)

• #found-haiku#new-york

Watercolors #2

Summer in Taiwan with Daisy

Sunset view from Jiufen Sunset view from Jiufen

Light reflections in Keelung Light reflections in Keelung

Boats at Tamsui Fisherman’s Wharf Boats at Tamsui Fisherman’s Wharf

Previously: Watercolors – Monterey, CA

• #daisy#photo#taiwan#travel

We were not even
using the word flow until
Rakim came along.

—Found haiku in Wikipedia article: Rapping (source)

• #found-haiku#music

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