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I should really just sign my opinions over to Jon Stewart and JWZ. They’re right about what I think so much more frequently than I am. TRANSPORTER 2 Dumb fun. Not as good as the first one (which was… not great, but entertaining.) Very near the beginning, a skinny blonde woman dressed as a . . . → Read More: Transporter 2 Google just released their blog search capability. Up ’till now our precious journals had been safe from the prying fingers of the googlebots, but no more. This very journal that you are reading, it has been indexed. I feel dirty, as if fingers that have touched a million other people just now touched me. I remember the days, more than a decade ago, when you established your ‘cred’ at a coffee shop by using the shorthand slang that the counter folk use. Coolness was measured in part by the brevity with which you could explain what you wanted in your cup. I would order a “double-cap” or an “au-lait”, . . . → Read More: Coffee shop The contractors showed up today and brought this machine. They took these six foot lengths of “helical pier” (screw) and drove them into the ground using a monster motor attached to a bobcat. It was freakin’ sweet. There is one of these piers on either side of our master bathroom. The plan is to . . . → Read More: Screwed I almost lived up to the Mancuso challenge to observe September 11th entirely without mass media. The exception was my Sunday New York Times, the reading of which is about as close as I come to a religious observance these days. technolope and capital_l came down last night, and we went to the Garden . . . → Read More: Chill Perhaps you’ve heard of the guy who told Dick Cheney to “Go f- himself”. It was decided in the car today, between redmed, capital_l, technolopeand myself that the vice president should be thus greeted, anywhere he goes in the world. Please, if you happen to see him, should “Go f- yourself, Mr. Cheney.” Preferably while . . . → Read More: Cheney Contributions solicited for a list of the major problems in the world. Here’s my start, in no particular order: . . . → Read More: Outstanding problems in the world Horked from the aforementioned Jon Stewart monologs. He claims that presidential disasters, like hurricanes, are named in alphabetical order. Note that we’ve got plenty of space remaining among the possible 26. Jon Stewart usually hits it on the head. Yesterday was phenomenal here are all the videos. I had a novel hot sauce experience this evening. I decided to cook down some of my cayenne peppers into a small batch of hot sauce. I took a plateful of them, cut them in half, and broiled them for about 5 minutes (skin becomes black and crispy). I dumped them into about half a . . . → Read More: AutoSadoMaschocism? |
