I’ve decided not to pound out a whole essay this morning, since I have a buttload of words and technical details waiting for me at my little cubby at work. Instead, I’ll just offer…
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Again, in honor of the debates: Japanese Bitchslapping, home version! (via Memepool - on the sidebar as…
sometimes you need a little boost on a wednesday. sometimes that boost won’t have any whiff of the surreal or bizarre. today is not one of those days.
have an ok thanksgiving
Again, a very quiet day - no comments,* on a story I must admit I consider rather over-written. Who has time for this crap on a Wednesday? Well I obviously do, but that’s my problem. …
I don’t know what has happened, but starting yesterday, my site traffic has gone through the roof. I’m getting two or three times the number of visits I’ve ever gotten before,…
Happy PB Day, everybody! Here’s some worthwhile phrases beginning with “pb” (not counting “phrases beginning,” which is not really that worthwhile):
Prehensile…
via obscure store (see sidebar): oh. my. god. The story is bad enough. The photos will never leave my memory. …
I don’t often post whole articles I found on the internet or that someone forwarded to me… but I did enjoy this when a friend sent it over, and it’s coming up with sufficiently…
We all get surveyed too damn much, and I’m as responsible as most anyone since I oversee more than 100 evaluation protocols for our various funded programs. I see good ones and bad ones,…
Here’s the thing: before I was blogging, I was effectively writing posts in the comments boxes of a few select sites. There were only a few of them, and I’ve stopped visiting all but…
welcome back my friends, to the blog that wouldn’t end.... it’s time to reveal my mendacity and tell you which of the stories I told on friday are just not true. Well, only one of…
so some subversive elements have been discussing the possibility of a design change for this site, and Posted on Aug. 20, 2005 • [4] • print
Thanks, y’all, for your valiant efforts at playing the Fake Crap on SkyMall game. We had votes for the following fakes: Home…
Horny?
No, not anymore…
There’s a lot to do today - friends are coming over for supper so I have to do some cleaning, and there’s laundry and writing and ever so much crap to wade through. But that doesn’t…
I was sitting on a beerhall patio one friday afternoon in early 2002, nursing an Anchor and chatting with my new friend about this and that and random things. She mentioned in passing that she’d…
Here’s a brief technical update:
* My fabulous webwizard Patricia has tweaked my search engine (at the bottom of the home page) and now it really works - so if you recall that I wrote…
I’m not much of a meme-er, but today I am really grinding my gears - I slept poorly and woke up in a panic when I realized the alarm had somehow been switched (eh, Zach?) from loud NPR to a very…
My good friend Charles sent me this link. He always sees more than the average fellow; maybe…
Now, it can be told:
I wasn’t going to participate. I’d been sending in trial submissions for their little contests for weeks, and never received so much as an “honorable mention.”…
Over the past four days, I’ve had three point five off work. I’ve shared a few crumbs of my delightful life with you already, but there’s a lot I left out. Just to pique…
The CNN News Headline on my GMail page reads: “Investigators Hope Testing Will…
Well, it’s been a fun-filled dream-fulfilling accomplishment-accomplishing weekend at Chuckle Central. We had two fabulous meals with friends (both, curiously, featuring brussels sprouts,…
What’s this? A holocaust - avoided? A cruel overlord - overthrown? An insensate king - endrunkened? An unclecousin - downcast, then uplifted? A hot queen - refusing…
What, are you still here? For god’s sake, man, it’s been a full five years! That’s half a decade, or 1.25 olympiads, or - here’s a weird one - nearly 1/9th of my…
Hey, back at work and too busy for the likes of you but HERE‘s…
A tiny notelet from the web: feeling peckish this fine tuesday morning? considering a tasty burger from the Olden Garches? but afraid that it won’t fill the bottomless void of your…