karen sisco

I don't know how the show's doing, but I've really been enjoying Karen Sisco on USA. It's no Out of Sight--it doesn't have Soderbergh or Lopez or Clooney or the character he played. But it does have Carla Gugino as the eponymous U.S. Marshal, and Robert Forster is wonderful as her father. And it has something of Elmore Leonard's lightly comic tone and his knack for stories in which multiple characters following their own purposes intersect in entertaining ways.

Okay, I went and looked--apparently how it's doing is, it's actually an ABC show, but it's on hiatus at ABC and meanwhile USA is showing the reruns? Not a great sign, but supposedly it's coming back in March. Meanwhile, you can catch it (or tape it) Tuesdays at midnight. I think. Check your local listings.

some driving books

When I was picking out books to bring with me on my cross-country drive this fall, I vastly underestimated the amount of time I wouldn't have for reading. I guess I knew that if I was going to be driving for, say, nine hours one day, I wouldn't be reading during that time, but I don't think I grasped it at a gut level. Nor did I realize that when I stopped driving, I would either go to an open mike and pay attention because these were all people I'd never seen before, or spend the evening exploring a new or familiar city, or be too tired for any intellectual exertion more strenuous than The Daily Show.

So I must have stuffed dozens of paperbacks (and a few hardcovers) into my suitcase and my backpack and my jacket before I left, and I read only a few of them, some of which I didn't even finish until the Minnesota trip this winter. Most of them were novels, but here are a few that weren't.

( Driving, walking, and singing. )

job hunting

I'm looking for work again. Specifically I'm looking for a 1-6 month contract, preferably in Silicon Valley, as a software engineer. I have nine years of work experience and a master's degree. My best language is Java, but I know a bunch of other ones. In case you know of any openings. Or any good places to look. Thanks.