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Had an awesome time in Ann Arbor this weekend. For one brief trio of days, I was popular. My phone rang off the hook, and it was always some new friend wanting to hang out, get coffee, hit a favorite restaurant or bar, show me their new child, or whatever.

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Cute

You know those stupid “type the text in the box” things? here’s one with kittens?

Angelo’s

I’ll be at Angelo’s tomorrow at 10am.

Be emotionally prepared to stand in line. That’s how it works there.

Ann Arbor, late notice

Looks like Flim Flam late breakfast at noon today (Saturday).

Additionally, I’ll most likely be at Angelo’s tomorrow morning, but I don’t know when.

Essay

New one, more autobiographical than most: A cappella sociology.

Damn. Still owe two more this week to be on schedule. How can it possibly be hard to grunt out one essay a week, for a year?

Refuse, resist

Flying to Ann Arbor today for my a cappella thingamabob. I carried almost no metal, and I wore tennis shoes. The footsie fetishists at security “suggested” that I remove said shoes. I said “do I have to?” They said “you’ll be subject to the special screening.” I said that was fine. It turns out that . . . → Read More: Refuse, resist

Toontown?

Ganked from jwz:

Inside the apartments, known as Reversible Destiny Lofts, the floor of the dining room slopes erratically, the one in the kitchen is sunken and the study features a concave floor. Electric switches are located in unexpected places so you have to feel around for the right one. A glass door to the . . . → Read More: Toontown?

Woah

Beer mapping

Back into town this morning for more computer worship. Gonna install our first co-located server today. This is a good idea; We have machine room space. Some of our customers really don’t care where the physical machine is located, so long as they can get to it on the network. Therefore (for a . . . → Read More: Woah

This evening, the time will be…

From jwz:

Tonight/tomorrow, the time will be 01:02:03 04/05/06. Which also happens to be 123 seconds after 1 AM. (You can all stop mailing me about this now.)

The Pain

The artist’s statement on this weeks The Pain comic is pretty good. He’s talking about the end of the world, whether due to environmental collapse, peak oil, or plague. Naturally, there’s profanity and stuff. Consider yourselves warned.

A Google search of the term “peak oil” will instantly tell you far more than you ever wanted . . . → Read More: The Pain