Clearly should have figured this one out, but going out drinking with a bunch of frisbee people, and not smoking, aren’t very compatible. God damn it!
The upside is that they’re a fun group, and I like hanging out with them. The downside is that after a couple of beers (or maybe four) I [...]
A couple of books that were mentioned to me today, that look very, very cool:
The New New Journalism
Literary Journalism
The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism
Some day, I tell you, some day….
[update, 4:44 PM -- WOOHOO! Turns out that my mom, being wonderful, already owns a couple of these, and I can [...]
Back up to 36 hours, and this time I’m not going to cheat. I won’t I won’t I won’t I won’t I won’t. Right this minute I really want a cigarette, but I’m not going to do it. I’m not I’m not I’m not I’m not…
Photos of the teddy bear hard drive I mentioned in this massive post earlier today.
Sorry, Grace…it’s a terrible picture of you, but it’s a great sense of your reaction.
Demonstration.
“See, this is where the cables come out of the teddy bear’s butt.”
Just so we’re all clear, the shirt I’m holding is the one that’s right. [...]
Okay, I’m not Jewish, the title of this post was just the most ridiculous thing that I could think of off the top of my head…
A rather massive catching-up post…
Tomorrow is final, once-and-for-all, quit day. That’s exciting. No more cheating, no more excuses.
It’s now the 27th of December, Christmas is over, family has [...]
A funny (free) video from SNL, via the iTunes store. (You need iTunes to watch it, though.)
December 28 is the day. The quit-altogether, no-more-cheating, out-of-my-life-forever date.
No going back. Only forward.
Ooh, look, more columnists for sale!
Where have we heard this one before?
On the other hand, for a short time only, there’s a Christmas sale going on…Abramoff had to pay $2,000 for an op-ed supporting his clients. I hear the asking price is down to $1,500.*
[* - note, asking price for an op-ed decrying the [...]
The Christian Peacemaker Teams brief on Iraq, issued very soon after Bush’s speech ended up Sunday night, is worth reading. Basically, they’re trying to give a view from the ground, and show how it differs from the television version.
A good quote, from a CPT member in Baghdad: “I tried to watch President Bush’s speech, [...]
Found in the book Daddy-Long-Legs, by Julia Webster. I was browsing through the Project Gutenberg catalog and happened to stumble on it.
The context, very, very briefly: this comes as part of a letter from an orphan to the kindly gentleman who is putting her through college.
I forgot to post this yesterday, so I will [...]
(courtesy of Doonesbury@Slate)
And a bonus: an archive of Doonesbury Christmas strips.
From Slate, some Suggestions on cleaning up pro wrestling.
Important stuff, that. Weighty, some might even say…
Oh, and I haven’t had a cigarette today. My own mother has condoned violence against my person if I continue to smoke. Hrm.
Colin Powell told The BBC two interesting things in a recent interview, summarized in a Wire Service brief.
First, he mentioned that European governments were aware of the US Government’s rendition policy, before news reports first broke about it. Nothing particularly shocking about this revelation, in my mind, but it’s nice to have someone outside [...]
If you haven’t recently, go check out Michael Green’s blog. Specifically, the entry “Who stands up?” (from December 14th) caught my attention.
Brought up by a conversation with Lauren (on this proposal to build a tidal generator on Narragansett Bay, in Rhode Island), I started looking around for information on tidal energy, and eventually tracked my way to the wikipedia page on Tides.
Interesting little tidbit (that I doubt anyone else finds all that interesting, but which I [...]
Jungian analysis says that I’m an INFP!
I wouldn’t say that I am, generally, the type of person who loves taking personality profiles and that kind of stuff. When people forward me those “answer 20 questions and forward to everyone you know!” kind of things, I just ignore them. In this case, [...]
From the NYTimes coverage of the Iraqi election comes this lede:
In a day remarkable for the absence of large-scale violence, millions of Iraqi voters, many of them dressed in their best and traveling with other family members, streamed to the polls today to cast ballots in a nationwide election as Iraqi leaders predicted that [...]
Okay, no cigarettes today…I’m back on the wagon…
It occurs to me that it’s the time of the year when people tend to buy things for other people, and give them to them. So, for the pleasure of those who might be thinking of getting me things, any of these would be good:
Tuition to take [...]
So I made it 69 hours, but then I cheated again. Had a very long, and very miserable day at work today, and it wore me down.
I really, really hate my job right now. I described my current situation earlier as being like “standing underneath a falling anvil [our coming build], with no [...]
Excellent discussion of the meaning of the holidays going on over on Taz’s blog.
Wonderful stuff.
I would suggest starting with Jeff threatening people because this season annoys him quite a bit. (This will also explain why I hid my roommate’s weapons.)
Then go on to Jeff explaining why the “America is a Christian Country” argument doesn’t [...]