Jeffy just got a +4 cravat for his “mage-thief”. Very exciting. And he didn’t even need to roll his 20-sided dice for it.
18 hours to go. 17 hours to go. 15 hours to go. 12.5 hours to go. 10 hours to go. 9 hours to go.
Game on.
To the woman who almost ran me over at the corner of Claremon and Holland Streets this evening: put the phone down already. Seriously. Or if you’re going to hold it to your left ear don’t make left turns or something. Or you could just PUT THE DAMN PHONE DOWN.
New York has [...]
Quit day: October 10.
Much yummy food, for very little money:
- Pork sirloin, purchased on sale ($0.59/lb) in a family pack at Star. Quickly pan-seared, smothered in Guilden’s Spicy Brown mustard and baked at 450 for about 15 minutes.
- Organic “asian mix” salad-in-a-bag, on sale at Pemberton Farms for $0.99 per one-pound bag.
- Lake Placid Brewery 46′ers Pale [...]
Timothy Noah, of Slate, wrote a column 10 days ago commending the authorities for putting people before pets in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
He wrote another yesterday, following up on the first.
This is one paragraph:
This is not, apparently, a popular view, at least among the sort of people inclined to send e-mails to this column. [...]
Well, the dishes are done. For the moment, at least. I mean, we have clean plates in the house again, which is a good start.
(If you have no idea why this is exciting, read this post from a couple of days ago.)
Also, the dirty clothes have made it into the wash, and from [...]
Jacob Weisberg suggests in this Slate column that liberals, currently busy ranting about the prospect of the Gulf Coast becoming a laboratory for conservative social and economic policy, take a breather and let Bush and company have their way with New Orleans.
My initial reaction was that Weisberg was nuts. I have a bad feeling [...]
“Borrowed” some of Jeff’s CDs, and cut them to MP3.
Sitting here getting ready to do some work (more Exchange, joy), and really enjoying “Natural Progression” by Sweatshop Union. There’s a couple of videos if you’re interested in a sample of the group.
It occured to me the other day that I’ve got an awful lot [...]
Just a few of the many things that I’m working on/thinking about at the moment, in any only very slightly organized list:
Datacenter move
LSAT
Exchange disaster recovery plans and procedures
The many dirty dishes in the kitchen
Finding a dentist
Finding a vet. For Kali, I mean.
Finding a date.
LDAP authentication for JBoss 4
VPN tunnel robustness
industrial strength air conditioning systems
Sarbannes-Oxley [...]
FNG is into Regionals!
What in the world do I do with 100 gMail accounts to give away?
Just finished Tom Wolfe’s most recent book, “I Am Charlotte Simmons”.
At heart, all of Wolfe’s books are about the same thing: powerful men falling from grace — Sherman of “Bonfire of the Vanities” or Charlie Croker of “A Man In Full”. In each case they find redemption; maybe partial, but redemption none the less. [...]
I’ve been working on grad school apps — meaning actually getting them, not filling them out — and I’m already excited about the prospect of being back in school.
But a thought hit me today: maybe instead of going back to grad school, I should find a paper somewhere that’ll pay me to write. I’d [...]
Further discussions of Katrina and poverty:
David Brooks actually goes so far as to propose the outlines of a program. I’m not sure I entirely agree, but it’s interesting and worth the read.
Bob Herbert looks at the way things were.
Jacob Weisberg focuses on race, rather than poverty, as an explanation for Bush’s nonchalance in the [...]
From Thomas Friedman’s op-ed in today’s New York Times:
An administration whose tax policy has been dominated by the toweringly selfish Grover Norquist - who has been quoted as saying: “I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it [...]
Katrina was a terrible blow to the Gulf Coast; what good could possibly come of it?
Two things that occur to me, in light of what has happened, things that I hope will happen as a result:
- Michael Brown, the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), was always the wrong choice for that job. [...]
…that some people might want to know what in the world those NWS things are that are mentioned below.
The National Weather Service’s various prediction stations issue several types of alerts. The most basic is a standard prediction of what the weather is going to be. Then there are advisories, alerts, and warnings, which [...]
Brendan Loy was way, way ahead of the curve on Katrina. His predictions of what might happen, predictions made several days before the hurricane struck, were right on target. And his critique of the response has been just as sharp.
If you happen to work for the media, hire this man.
If you [...]
Eric Umansky’s Today’s Papers column in Slate breaks down the news coverage of Katrina’s aftermath.
Umansky writes TP during the work week, and does a great job of breaking down the stories that are making news; this particular column is a good, nay great, example of one of his real talents: critiquing the choices that were [...]