On the way home from Boston on Friday, I stopped off and talked to a Larouche activist. He seemed like a nice guy, very articulate in his own way. It was refreshing to have a political conversation outside of the usual bounds of left and right. Then he asked for money and I said ‘no’ . . . → Read More: Politics and beets
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Is spam getting more unattractive by the day? I mean, back in the good ‘ole days spam was stuff like “$1 million dollars now!” and “Beautiful women, all for you!” bearing in mind the scam-factor on the email, there was at least a chance that I would be interested in either of those things. Now, . . . → Read More: Spam The biggest casualty of the recent disk fiasco on my laptop was my iPhoto library. I use this tool to keep my entire personal photo album. A few years back, I methodically scanned all of my paper pictures and imported and labeled them. I’ve got about 17,621 pictures. The pictures seem to be okay, except . . . → Read More: iPhoto woes A brief review (inspired by something written by evil_genius). Logic, and the scientific method, do not include: * Argument from authority: “The big honcho said so, so it’s true and …” * Argument from emotion: “mom, dad, apple pie, and my idea, so it’s true and … ” OR “you get all upset when we . . . → Read More: On logic: This letter is stunningly brilliant. He’s got responses a ways down the page from members of the school board, so he apparently actually sent it. . . . → Read More: May you be forever touched by his noodly appendage So it turns out that the top hit to an image search with my name on google is … ME, being a big geek! There’s a man spraying poison around my house. I’m paying him a decent amount of money to do this. This makes me feel odd. The problem is wood boring insects. We not only have the carpenter bees, but we also have carpenter ants. In the “swarming form” too. The internet agrees with the . . . → Read More: Poison So, I wander off from my desk to get a cup of tea. I return to hear SQEALS from my yard, and I see three girls, maybe 15 years old, jumping through the sprinkler in my front yard. They’ve got a small posse of boys on bicycles watching them jump. Just as I was . . . → Read More: Sprinkler fun My brother-in-law forwarded me this: . . . → Read More: Religion Ending a five-month standoff over a controversial nomination, President Bush on Monday used a recess appointment to name John Bolton the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The move thwarts Senate Democrats who had blocked Bolton’s nomination in a dispute over documents and accusations that Bolton doesn’t have the temperament for the nation’s top U.N. . . . → Read More: Bush “The Steamroller” |
