This is a message to remind me to check out pitchfork media.
And Mount St. Helens is going to kill us all.
And this is pretty interesting as well.
Monday, September 27, 2004
Sunday, September 26, 2004
Friday, September 24, 2004
We caught a mouse this morning. It was in the trap that he had eaten the spinach out of the day before. Maybe this means that mice like spinach residue just as much as actual spinach.
Everyone must read this article and later should check out Bush singing.
Thursday, September 23, 2004
Last weekend, R and I borrowed some mouse traps from her parents to help us with the "mouse problem". It seems that everytime we come home there's another little fun rodent running around the house. R said to bait the traps with peanut butter. After two days, not much. Then, last night, while making a salad, R dropped a piece of spinach on the floor which happened to bounce and stick the peanut butter in one of the traps.
Tonight, upon arriving home, what should we find but no more peanut butter and no more spinach in the trap. no mouse either, but this proves what some of us have been saying since the dawn of time: "mice really like spinach."
THE END
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
Did you forget about Janet Jackson's Super Bowl boob incident? I did too, and then today the FCC fined CBS $550,000 for it, which, oddly, is only $50,000 less than the amount that Halle Berry was paid to do double the work when she bore herself in swordfish.
What does this teach us all? It teaches us that some breasts are worth paying half a million dollars to bare and others are worth paying the same amount to keep covered. Is this chest discrimination? You bet it is.
Tuesday, September 21, 2004
Another evening at the office... spent waiting for someone to get out of a meeting so they can tell me why I'm here this late.
In the meantime, I've been being a big hippie and checking out fair-trade coffees and all the fairness they have to offer. Sound granola? It is!
oH WAIT, now I'm working and it's almost 9pm and R bought a rotisserie chicken that I won't see until I get home! Dang!
If you've got cable, check out the fox blocker, which you can put in the back of your cable box to block out fox news channel forever (not the regular fox channel with the simpsons, the fox news cable channel). And if you're thinking, "why would I want to block fox news channel?", check out outfoxed from your local video store, library or whatnot.
Monday, September 20, 2004
Kerry gave Bush the whatfor today.
And the debate dates are set for Sept. 30th, Oct. 8th and Oct 13th.
Sunday, September 19, 2004
Saturday, September 18, 2004
Off to see the Thrills tonight at the Black Cat. Please don't read this and then break into my apartment while I'm at the show.
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Monday, September 13, 2004
Saturday, September 11, 2004
Snow Patrol kicks ass! They put on an amazing show last night. Looks like I won't have to go into work this weekend as I was told I might, so now I have to figure out what to do instead. Besides writing in a blog... enough of this. Pictures below:
Friday, September 10, 2004
A movie I can't wait to see will be screened in washington on Sept 14th
Check out http://hijackingcatastrophe.org and click on screening to look for one in yer area.
DC one is at
Visions Cinema
International World Media Festival
Thursday, September 09, 2004
Lost our kickball game. The score was pathetic. What really made it worthwhile was being able to arrive on a scooter. Yee haw. Snow Patrol at 930 club tomorrow night. Muy bueno.
And GOOD GOD, the latest thing to come out of W's mouth: "Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country"
Wednesday, September 08, 2004
Tuesday, September 07, 2004
R and I are going to see the Scissor Sisters tonight,
Then Snow Patrol plays the same venue (930 club) on Fri.
Other good shows coming up in DC are:
SAT SEPT 18- THE THRILLS, THE ZUTONS will be playing at the BlackCat for $14
and FRI SEPT 24- THE FIERY FURNACES, WHITE MAGIC, INOUK at the black cat for $10
and the BIGGEST BESTEST show will be:
FRI OCT 1- KINGS OF LEON, SIMPLE KID for $12
Oct 3rd, the Killers are coming to the 930 club and the Libertines will be there on Oct 19th.
then there's also
TUES OCT 5- THE 5.6.7.8.s, DEAD MOON, THE FEVER for $10 and
SUN NOV 14- DELGADOS, CROOKED FINGERS for $13
I definitey recommend the Kings of Leon... but don't buy a ticket before I do.
Monday, September 06, 2004
All in all a pretty good weekend. We rode the scooter down to the hirshhorn to check out the Gabriel Orozco on its last day. I can't say that it was particularly good. It was a photography exhibit that I cut out an article about sometime over the summer and finally got around to seeing today.
I also found out about this thing called Ghostzilla, which helps to hide the mozilla browzer within whatever application you happen to be working. I also downloaded the firefox web browser to see if it was just as good as Internet Explorer or possibly better. I seems to be doing just fine and even imported all of my old settings from IE. Not bad!
Back to work tomorrow............ lame. lame. lame.
Sunday, September 05, 2004
Scooter! Whoo-hoo! R and I went out to the ghetto in DC and bought a scooter yesterday. It was the last one within 30 miles of DC, since all of the '05 models are coming out so soon... Here's exactly what it looks like:
Took it up to R's parents today and drove it around Georgetown yesterday. Loads of fun.
Saturday, September 04, 2004
My God this is a funny video... political funny, not haha look at that donkey in a hat funny.
Friday, September 03, 2004
Bush by the Numbers from the Independent... England's less liberal paper. Disturbing/Telling
Bush gives his little speech and then Kerry takes the gloves off. Finally!
And this article was posted somewhere on the unfiltered blog.
Wednesday, September 01, 2004
I had a random thought the other day:
Why is it that you can spend your entire life cutting the fingernails of your right hand using the scissors with your left hand and never get good at it? It makes no sense. Unless of course you're left handed, in which case reverse it. If you're ambidextrous, I'd like to know if it's just really difficult to cut your nails at all or really simple. And lastly, do you ever find yourself switching hands before cutting your right toenails?
You'd think I would have thought of this while clipping my nails. Oddly, no.
Monday, August 30, 2004
Found this newseum site using that stumbleupon site that I mentioned a while ago. If I had all the time in the world, reading the front page of every local newspaper in the country would be a lot easier.
Sunday, August 29, 2004
Spent all weekend housesitting for R's boss and taking care of this adorable animal:
Now it's back to work, but check out this link that my brother sent.
Friday, August 27, 2004
R sent me this link http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?ChannelID=96. I bet W doesn't even know what a dictatorship really is.
And this is pretty amusing as well.
Thursday, August 26, 2004
This whole webpage appears to be turning into one long gripe about my missing papers. Well.... I like it that way.
It was missing again today. I called up the post again and talked to the girl there for a while. At first she was just going through the standard speech about how they "apologize for that, sir" and "will add another day to your subscription and make sure this doesn't happen again." Shortly after I started explaining how long this had been going on and had her look at the records of all my calls, she started to take a little more interest. I ended up getting the number for my distributor's manager. I think I'll call tonight.
I was thinking about this problem in depth earlier this afternoon while I was waiting for one of five bosses to get off the phone. The reasons for my missing paper must either be: A) Someone is stealing it or B) Someone is not delivering it.
I highly doubt that the thief is still stealing the paper, unless he's crazy. The fact that he's been caught would probably discourage him from such actions.
I also doubt that the delivery guy isn't delivering it, unless he's crazy too. When I caught up with him in the hall after he failed to deliver my paper on Saturday, he distinctly said "oh, you're back now? I thought [skipping your apartment] was wrong."
So there are a few options that I can think of for why the paper isn't showing up.
1) There's a separate delivery guy Monday through Wednesday (at least). This is entirely possible, since I've only seen the delivery guy twice and both times it was on a Saturday.
2) There's a new thief. I kind of like this option. A new contender for interrogation would be quite nice.
3) Either the delivery guy or the thief (the old one) is crazy. Their dementia might lead them to believe that I was a figment of their imagination when they were confronted.
4) Both the delivery guy and the thief are completely insane and are constantly wrestling in the hallway about who gets to keep my paper (this would explain the wrestle marks all over the walls and rugburns on their knees and elbows).
5) I'm completely insane and have never actually had a subscription to the Washington Post. This one is a bit of a stretch given the video evidence, although you can't really see the paper in the video... It would also mean that R would have to be insane as well... Or another figment of the imagination... # 5 is out.
6) The old thief and the delivery guy are in cahoots. They've been doing this for years and years (ever since old thief started living in the building in 1977). They have a deal worked out where the old guy will steal the paper to get it, but that if he gets caught, the delivery guy will just knock on his door and give him the paper that he used to be stealing. "What's in it for the delivery guy," you ask. Well, the delivery guy is actually the old guy's estranged son or maybe his doppelganger. Though, it would be kind of weird for the doppelganger to have a job. I don't think that the old thief has a job. So maybe the old thief is the delivery guy's doppelganger. That would mean that a shadow stole my paper. Maybe I just wrote this as an excuse to use the word doppelganger. Your thoughts?
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
The Saga Continues
The paper was missing again yesterday morning. We can't be sure that it was the thief since we didn't hear the delivery guy drop off the paper (and he has been kind of sporadic in dropping it off since we got back from Sweden) or see the thief take it. Here's a picture of the thief himself:
Odd, I know, that the thief had
his face erased poorly in photoshop.
I called up the Washington Post for the umpteenth time to complain and was told that my customer service representative would be filling out a "special report form."
Tuesday, August 24, 2004
Finally took the time to add the pictures from Sweden to some webspace I had on flickr. You can check them out by visiting copying and pasting this http://www.flickr.com/photos/greg and then adding the first letter of my last name before pressing enter. I have to make some vain attempt at protecting my identity, right? Age of identity theft and all of that, right?
This is just here for me to remind myself to check out www.filmwise.com and to add the latest picture to thepilfered.blogspot.com.
Monday, August 23, 2004
Ok, I lied the other day about putting the video of the guy next door being confronted about stealing my paper on the web. The file was too big! Where am I going to find the space to host the thing? We shall see. It made my weekend to catch him, that's for sure. I got a suggestion from a friend that I should start doing stakeouts on dumb stuff that police don't have time for. In one sense, it would be a lot of fun. On the other hand, it could get my ass beat.
Saturday, August 21, 2004
VICTORY!
I got it all on film. It turns out that it was the guy next door. After bounding up the stairs and throwing open the door to hear him drop the paper back on the floor I was able to confront him and get an odd confession and list of reasons why he might be stealing the paper.
Of course, now R and I are scared that he's going to be really angry with us and try to kill us... people will do crazy things when they're embarassed.
I'll see about posting that video on the site. But will upload the .mpgs for download later this morning.
It's 7:18 on a saturday morning and I'm already up. R and I are on a stakeout this morning to find the person who keeps stealing our newspaper... specifically the yellow section wrapped in plastic that contains the Sunday comics (how the Sunday comics can appear on Saturdays I'll never understand). I'll be using my handy dandy camera's video function to catch whoever it is red handed.
It's pretty early, my breath stinks, and the paper hasn't even been delivered yet.
Once the bait arrives and the trap is set, I'll be sitting by the door listening intently and looking through the peephole. This will probably cause me some neck pain, but it's worth it.
R is convinced that it's this woman at the end of the hall who is sending her kids to do her dirty work. I think this is a pretty good assumption. Adults probably have a lot more trouble with stealing a newspaper because they think about the consequences of the actions... some of them... not W. Children, on the other hand, really like comics and couldn't comprehend what their actions will lead to if they tried. I'm a licensed psychologist, so that whole analysis is totally valid... The other advantage of using kids is, of course, that they might not be tall enough to see through the peephole.
Friday, August 20, 2004
Thursday, August 19, 2004
These excellent bands will all be playing in DC (and probably elsewhere in the states really soon.
Scissor Sisters - Tue. Sep 7th (what a lame website... all I had time to Google, though)
Snow Patrol - Fri. Sep 10th
Supergrass - Wed. Sep 29th
The Libertines - Tue. Oct 19th
The weekday shows are rough, but I already have tickets for the Snow Patrol show on Friday night.
Wednesday, August 18, 2004
This link from the O'Franken Factor Blog points the way to George Bush's easy form letter to the editor creator that enables one to write letters to the editors of tons of major newspapers around the country very easily... Perhaps I'll write a few myself.
A relatively new show on the bbc that they've been showing inflight on United airlines is Click Online, which has a whole team of researchers to find interesting stuff on the web instead of just little old me. Tell me if you find anything interesting.
I did see this toolbar that's also useful in finding odd and interesting webpages.
Tuesday, August 17, 2004
Sunday, August 08, 2004
I'm in Sweden! Not a lot of time for the internet and can only gain access after asking around at reception. Even then I'm locked in a little room and have to sit really close to the wall because I only brought a small internet cable for my laptop. S'fun, though. Hopefully, if I got it to work, there'll be a picture from Sweden of some trees and rocks and stuff off of the Baltic coast in the very Nordlund just after this colon:
Tuesday, July 27, 2004
It hurts to read it, but here's the Ann Coulter column that was dropped by USA today. I almost don't want to give her the attention, so don't click on it... unless you really want to... and even then, just trust me. It's awful.
Sunday, July 25, 2004
;)
Jeff brought this shining example of why the media in this country does not lean to the left to my attention.
A big thanks to Chris for sending pictures from the wedding in Poland... I left my camera on a bus... that was a mistake, because now I don't have it anymore. On the other hand, it gave me the opportunity to buy the Canon S500, which is already on my coffee table wating for the trip to Sweden to help on a dig in August... August 3rd... cannot wait... arg.
Picture of the main square of Krakow taken by Chris A. Notice the use of light to create the image.
;)
Friday, July 23, 2004
R and I cancelled our cable a few months ago. I don't want to be one of those people that always talks about "Oh, I don't have television! I didn't see that! Aren't I great because I don't have television?!?" There's nothing special about not having a television. It might just show that you're cheap... Most people have a television, but anyone can just shut it off. The real admission of a person not having a TV or canceling their cable is that they don't have enough self control to just stop watching it.
Either way, R and I decided that we were spending too much time watching the magic window and that we might as well cancel the cable to save money and encourage ourselves to read the newspaper.
This all leads up to my visit to the local Radio Shack.
With the cable canceled, I thought that we would at least get normal broadcast TV (i.e. NBC, CBS, and the illustrious WB). I was wrong. Just fuzz. We could actually still see the history channel because the cable is running into the apartment for the internet connection. I had considered buying a descrambler, but that would have just ended in us watching even more television and stealing from those poor, indigent media conglomerates. In the end, we decided that we should buy an antenna to try to get some semblance of television (and I thought it might be useful for the Olympics when they come around).
There's a Radio Shack on K street across from my work, so I went over there on Monday afternoon to buy an antenna. I went during work and didn't have a lot of time to mess around. My idea was to get in there, buy the first antenna that I saw and then leave again.
I should say that I haven't had the best experiences with radio shack in the past. I've never purchased a device from them that lasted more than a year or so. I learned not to trust radio shack from my mom at an early age when I listened to her complain about a slew of terrible clock radios she'd purchased, so I was on my guard as soon as I went in.
No sooner had I asked a sales representative where the antennas were was I confronted by a hands-free-cell-phone-attachment-wearing employee who was ready to "make the sale." I have never appreciated salespeople. I know that I could never do it myself because I'm a terrible liar.
"You really don't want to get that one," the salesman said to me as I was eyeing the cheapest of the antennas.
"Of course I do." I said, "It's the cheapest one here."
"Yeah, but that one won't work for you."
"Why would you be selling something that doesn't work?"
"Do you live in the city?" he asked me.
"Yes."
"Well, then that one is 'unamplified' and won't give you reception in the city."
"Oh." I said, "what's the return policy on the cheap one?"
"30 Days"
"Well, then why don't I just buy it and then if doesn't work I can return it and get the next better one."
"But why would you want to go through all that trouble?" He asked.
"It's really not a problem," I said, "I work across the street and I could just bring it back on my lunch hour."
"Well, look: I bought that one and it didn't work too well in the city. Now I own this other one," he said, pointing to the antenna that was $20 more. "I personally own the amplified antenna and it works great. What floor do you live on?"
"Ummm... The sixth floor."
"Yeah. You'll definitely want to buy this one."
At this point I was sure he was lying. Who doesn't have cable? I knew that R and I were outcasts for having canceled our cable and listening to somebody trying to sell me an antenna lie about owning one himself was insulting. And what the hell does being on the sixth floor have to do with needing an amplified antenna? Don't people try to put antennas as high up as they can? Wouldn't being on any floor at all be better than not being in an apartment building?
Needless to say, I picked up the amplified antenna for $30. I felt so used walking up to the counter to pay, until I listened to the clerk to my left trying to sell a French woman a warranty for the battery on her alarm clock.
"Ms. You should really thinking about getting a warranty for this. We get these thunderstorms that roll through here and you'll get a power surge and BAM! The battery will short circuit and your alarm clock won't work anymore."
"I've lived here for 4 years and I've never had a problem like that," she said.
"Well, I'd like to live where you live."
She didn't buy the warranty... Come to think of it, now I feel even worse about having bought the more expensive antenna. Once I got the thing home and had it hooked up, I got to play the fun game of having the reception be perfect until I stepped back and then having it be all fuzzy again. I did find that if I unplugged it (thereby making it "unamplified"), it wouldn't work anymore, which made me feel a little bit better about having spent as much as I did. After an hour or so, I found that the only channel that comes in clearly is the WB. We haven't turned it on in four days.
Thursday, July 22, 2004
When deciding last minute to go to a family reunion neark Oswego, NY, it might be a good idea to try rent a wreck for your rental card needs.
Wednesday, July 21, 2004
I think I finally figured out what I want to do with my life... or at least a year or two.
Tuesday, July 20, 2004
These are just lovely photos of moons and a planet. I think I'll add a bunch of links to nerdy sites on the left over there to really drive the science home.
Friday, July 16, 2004
I really don't want to comment on Martha Stewart. Somehow the media made me think that I care, but I don't and neither should you.
Thursday, July 15, 2004
This is a link for me of the camera I'm considering buying: camera. It's expensive, but really nifty at the same time. Don't forget about using pricewatch to find the cheapest stuff out there.
Considering going to see The Polyphonic Spree. Anyone out there ever heard of them/think they're any good live?
Wednesday, July 14, 2004
Feel like making your F1 key into the F2 key, or mixing up all of the keys on a coworker's keyboard? Download this utility called Key Tweak and get to pranking. Of course, to change someone else's computer you would need to install and run the program on their machine while they're at lunch, but it can be done.
Gay Marriage Ban Blocked What a relief to know that the entire Senate isn't made up of Fundamentalists like Bush.
Turn the nerd dial up to eleven with these keyboard shortcuts, unless you have a mac, in which case you are wealthy!
Monday, July 12, 2004
Man! Those speechwriters for Bush are good! I'm almost convinced that the evil-doers are being dealt with by the power of the almighty, but boy do I wish he'd stop saying that the American people are safer.
Sunday, July 11, 2004
Last night R and I were across the street from her parents at their neighbor's house b/c she had asked us to walk her dogs while she went to NYC for the day. Apparently, she "was going to go to Portugal from NY [for work] on Sunday morning, but decided that [she] really just needed to relax and would instead just go to Germany on Monday instead of flying there from Portugal." So she just got her hair cut in NYC and then flew home. R later explained that she had been flying to Portugal from New York (rather than DC) so that she could get her hair done there.
Conversation progressed to something about voting for Kerry and it unsurprisingly came out that this neighbor who lives in a 1/2 million dollar home by herself, drives a BMW 5 series (it's nice) and travels internationally every week for business, is a republican. She said that this year she isn't sure if she'll vote for Bush again and that it really "depends on this war." I never did figure out what she meant by that. How could it get any worse? She did mention that, much like Vietnam, these soldiers and Iraqis appeared to be dying for no reason. I gave in my two cents about how Bush had an agenda concerning Iraq before he even took office and that half of the people surrounding him were members of PNAC and had been planning to "democraticize" the middle east (i.e. make them friendlier to us to facilitate easier access to oil) since the first Bush administration. That there were no WMDs or Al Qaeda links and that the senate committee on the war had just said so. She thought that Bush didn't know that he was being given bad intelligence. I said that if we were just going on intelligence we should have been trying to stop ethnic cleansing in Darfur and the Balkans, or even, God forbid, discouraging North Korea from building Nuclear Weapons (instead of pulling our troops out of South Korea to go fight in Iraq).
Then out came a few statements that just knocked me over.
"Well, I just can't see voting for Kerry. I'm afraid of Kerry. He's one of these Massachusetts liberals!"
"'Massachusetts liberal?" I said, "I don't understand. I know plenty of conservatives and independents from Massachusetts. And what's wrong with Kennedy?"
"Who?"
"You know, Kennedy, the other senator from Massachusetts? He's a liberal, too."
"Oh, I don't pay much attention to these things."
"Arrgggg."
"Well, I just know that this Kerry is going to raise taxes. We are taxed to death in this country!"
"Um... I really don't think we're taxed to death in this country," I said, "and besides, if Kerry did raise taxes it wouldn't be for me or you, it would be for the people making billions of dollars a year. He would pretty much raise taxes for those that could afford to pay higher taxes. And also, even if did effect us, Europeans pay taxes at rates of 45%, where our highest tax brackets only get up to between 33-35%."
"That's not true," says neighbor, "He would set a bar at $100,000 or $200,000 and people above that would start having to pay. There are people who have decent jobs and make money, but because of taxes are just scraping by."
At this point I started to get a bit to angry. Was she talking about herself when she said "just scraping by"? What the hell is her idea of being "taxed to death"? She must have a different concept of death. Her cleaning lady was in the kitchen! She had just flown to New York for the day to have her hair cut!
R and I left... Seething. The only possible explanation for neighbor-lady to have thought these things is some newsletter she probably gets in the mail every week for having donated to the Republican party at some point in her life. The rhetoric spilling out of her brain was almost visible.
The reason that we "taxed to death" in this country is that the taxes all go to $200 billion unnecessary wars and missle defense programs to shoot down intercontinental ballistic missles that terrorists could never get theit hands on in the first place where the health care "system" receives none.
Friday, July 09, 2004
I almost forgot: go see Farenheit 911 immediately.
A few other quick points before I have to run out the door to sit in my cube:
I've recently run into a few arguement for the election of GWB that are so fallible it makes me cringe.
(1) I'm voting for him because he's a good leader
No. He isn't. He might be a good persuader and he might make you think that he's leading you, but it's mostly his cronies that are doing the leading and even so, have you ever considered where he's leading you?
(2) I'm voting for Bush because the world is a better place without Saddam Hussein
No. It isn't. Who told you that, anyway? Iraq might be a better place, but even that is argueable. There were no WMDs, no chemical weapons, no nuclear programs and no Iraqi terrorists with links to Al Qaeda. Were any of the 911 hijackers from Iraq? Nope. Were 15 of them from Saudi Arabia? Yes. Did we invade Iraq? Yes. Does that make sense?
When was the last time Saddam or an Iraqi had attacked an American citizen?
Has our level of safety increased since the Iraq war? According to a study released by your government that is leading you so well there were more acts of terrorism in 2003 than in any other year previous.
(3) I'm voting for Bush because I'm ignorant
No arguement.
Thursday, July 08, 2004
We're back from Poland! Today was my first real day on the job. Granted I've been working there for the last year, today was my first day on salary. So that was pretty big stuff. I switched cubicles and everything... might even get a new computer next week.
An amazing time was had at the wedding in Krakow. R and I got to see tons of old friends and eat, walk and drink to our hearts' contents.
I lost my camera on a bus, though.
That sucked.
Otherwise, it was an awesome trip.
On the way home we got to witness some strange behavior at Gatwick airport in London. While getting our boarding passes at the US Airways desk, the US Diplomat standing next to us was observed saying "OK, girls. Let's pray... Holy Jesus... blah blah blah... Amen." to his four children as they were waiting for further details on why there weren't allowed to bring a parakeet as on board luggage. From what R and I could tell, this man had a United States Diplomat passport and a Norweigan wife. All I could think was that some diplomat to Norway from the US is a bit more into Jesus than I would want a representative of the US to be... especially one who needs to take his parakeet on board.
I looked around on the web for half an hour or so, but couldn't come up with a picture of the guy to recognize and put a name to... I'll keep working on it, though.
Wednesday, June 30, 2004
A hiatus.
R and I will be in Poland for the next week.
It's kind of silly to think that anyone will know that we are gone, but it's nice to think that I should leave something to say we've left.
If you'll notice, I've added the commenting option to this site. If you bother to register with Blogger, you should be able to comment about how sad you are that I am not here (don't worry, I've never ever ever received a piece of junkmail from Blogger, Google or anyone there-affiliated).
See you in a week!
Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Monday, June 28, 2004
Finally! The Supreme Court makes a ruling I agree with. Who knew that prisoners would actually be allowed to see lawyers?
Saturday, June 26, 2004
Friday, June 25, 2004
Featured in a Washington Post article, a new study on cosmetics has this site which let's you enter in the different junk you use to make yourself pretty and find out how deadly it is on a scale from 1 to 10.
I linked to this before I entered in my Nivea aftershave and was told that it was a 9.3 (10 is the most deadly). It's the most deadly shaving product tested! I no longer recommend using this site. It will make you smell worse.
Wait, it gets worse. The site lets you find all of the different products that you use and add them to a summary of all of your stuff. Next year I can only assume that they'll be able to tell you the exact day and time of your death. I'm screwed, by the way.
Wednesday, June 23, 2004
Slate Magazine boils Clinton's book down to one page. I'm sure there was more to it, but there's so much out there to read, this might just have to suffice.
And remind me to remind myself to check out media matters.
There was some great commentary about water privatization on Air America Radio this morning which directed me to www.wateractivist.org.
Monday, June 21, 2004
Friday, June 18, 2004
This election year, let's all write a letter to the election supervisors for each county in florida asking them not to use the same lists of "inelligble" voters that were handed to them by a partisan db corp.
And why have I not been linking to salon more often?
Tuesday, June 15, 2004
I got bored on Saturday and happened to notice that Ben Kingsley looks a lot like the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai. Karzai's country produces tons of dope and bush wants tons of oil, hence the new title:
;)
And that Beastie Boys show I mentioned yesterday sold out in about 2 minutes... tickets were on $15. Aaarg.
Monday, June 14, 2004
DC Residents - Secret Beastie Boys Show on Thurs night at the 9:30 club. Tickets go on sale tomorrow,June 15th at 4pm.
Go to this website and enter the password pollywog.
Ran a 10K this weekend and got a kickass time of 48mins 39secs. I'm also famous with my picture on the run washington website. Neato.
photo: www.runwashington.com
Thursday, June 10, 2004
;)
Wednesday, June 09, 2004
Tuesday, June 08, 2004
Monday, June 07, 2004
remind me to listen to these tomorrow
And this is here to see if I can insert a picture from another website.
Hey neato! I had no idea that I could do that. Now I can put pictures on my webspace from starpower and link to them on this site. Lame! There's going to be a barrage of pictures inserted now.
The truly amazing thing about Reagan's death is that all of the media's fawning over him is actually making me start to think that he was a well-spoken and charismatic president. Bush seems to be charismatic, but frat-boy charismatic; that frustrating "I'm better than you, but I'll talk to you because you can get me somewhere" kind of charismatic. The last thing ue could be called is well-spoken. Maybe that's why voters like him. He fails spectacularly at every public speaking engagement to help the average Joe overcome his own crowd-o-phobia.
Saturday, June 05, 2004
Thursday, June 03, 2004
Attention DC Folks
The metro is going to raise rates for trips from 2am to 3am on Friday and Saturday.
Read the Docket and then write in to explain that raising rates will only serve to decrease the number of passengers and increase the number of kids driving home drunk (instead of taking the metro to a parking lot and driving home from the parking lot drunk).
I have some stuff to ponder with the resignation of George Tenet being announced today. More amusing is Al Jazeera's coverage of the story and the pictures they have of Tenet compared to others.
There's also a lot to ponder regarding this whole Chalabi debacle and it's odd coincidence with the resignation of Richard Perle who was gunning for Saddam and is defending Chalabi, who he introduced to Dick Cheney in the first place.
Not to mention Bush consulting lawyers. Hope my taxes aren't paying for that...
Wednesday, June 02, 2004
Thursday, May 27, 2004
Here's a good link to a bunch of different websites where you can find etexts.
And this is just a link for me to use later for nerd activity.
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
I get the feeling that if a man threw a condom filled with flour at Bush, the fine would be a bit more than $1,000.
As it should be. That flour could have gone in his eyes! Or it could have been Ricin! Or Sarin! Or.. Why do I know the names of these things?
Tuesday, May 25, 2004
My God! In an overworked stupor I completely forgot to watch the GWB speech last night and chose to rent the last of the Matrix movies instead. The acting in both was probably about the same...
Oh well, the transcript might help, but it's never the same if I can't see that fantastic smile on his face. He's so folksy!
I'll have to find the video later.
I've decided that the video would make me too nauseous. Here's the audio, though.
Wednesday, May 19, 2004
New blog Post - 04/24/2004 updated 05/21/2004
My PDA and other stuff.
I started thinking that I could work on writing something magnficent. Something that wouldn't take up too much time; allow me to be lazy, but be a story nonetheless. I've never been asked to write a story with no topic. Actually, that's not true. I haven't been asked to do something like it since highschool. I feel like if I actually have a topic, I can really come up with some quality writing, but that if there's nothing there to begin with, I can make it more trouble than it should be. There's definitely plenty for me to talk about, but it always sounds like needless complainig if no one ever asked you to speak in the first place. Maybe that's the trouble with writing like this: there's no audience. There's a lesson in there somewhere about not taking the advice of idiots spouting about "knowing your audience" for granted. I think I got a really weird sunburn today at the track meet. Some splotches under my right eye and a spot on my neck too. Sometimes I think I should be sued for overuse of commas and not having known what the word "trite" meant, despite having used it in sentences for years. Everyone does it, but catching yourself feels pulcritudinous. (Exactly.) So, either way, there's some neat stuff for me to expore here with this portable palm thing and the keyboard. Romantically, I think that it will lead to me writing in public. I picture myself on a bench in the center of Dupont Circle watching couples and bike messengers share seats with hobos. I know that this will never happen, but it's nice to imagine it. I wonder what business people imagine when they get their first PDAs. Do they ponder all of the useless jargon that they have and try to make up new ones by stringing different phrases from different memos together? What else can they leverage independantly of ongoing market variance? Do they know what half of those ten words really mean?
I learned what proactive meant today and was sorely dissappointed. I thought that it just meant being in favor of doing things. I turns out that it means the same thing as "predicting problems or scenarios and acting to prevent or prepare for them." I liked it better before and now recognize how poorly used it is that I could never figure out what it really meant from the context that it was in.
Back to the PDA. I really am fooling the hell out of myself that I'll ever use this in public and the reasons for it rattle off in my brain like pictures out of Abu Grahib:
(1) It's loud and annoying when I type. I hit the keys too hard, especiallythe space bar. I slam it, and only with my right thumb. I think I might even annoy myself with my typing. That's a lie. I revel in it because it makes me sound faster when I'm slamming on the spacebar somwhere along the line I was taught that typing fast is cool.
(2) I don't want people to think I'm some yuppie ass rich kid with a PDA that his mom gave him. Self-loathing must be the most pathetic and epidemic quality of middle class offspring. Kids who moved up from the working class to become our parents were allowed to say that they had made something of themselves. Whereas their offspring will forever doubt if they made themselves what they are or had success based on their parents' ability to support them. Would I be sitting here typng on a collapsable keyboard into a PDA if it weren't for them? What a stupid, trite question. Shoulder, Chip, blah, blah, blah.
(3) I know I'm just going to use this stupid thing to write hai-kus while I'm in the bathroom at work.
So yeah, that's the new PDA. It's a hand-me-down, it's not color, but I'm done fulfilling my subconscious need to defend anything good that happens to me as someting earned or pure luck. It's a great little device that my shoulder-chip will shame me into detesting. Perhaps I'll throw caution to the wind and there'll be more to come.
*UPDATE
And there was more to come. I wrote that stuff up there back in April... --
New blog - 05/21/2004
What an effort it could take to actually think of something intelligent to write. Something that's not trite or boring... why bother?
So I got a PDA. I still have trouble remembering what it stands for... personal digital assistant? portable? eh, doesn't matter. My mom got a new one from her work and I scored her old one with no whining or anything. Good stuff. It's a Handsprig "Visor, ," which, from what I've read online, is a good pda to start out with. I've actually surprised myself by using it every day. I thought I'd be using it to blog stuff that I think of on the spur of the moment when I'm not close to a computer... but that hasn't really worked out. I've been so swamped with stuff to do that I use it for, you guessed it, the To Do list function. This function is amazing... when you check things off, they disappear. It's so satisfying to watch a little line scratch through them that I've started writing in little things that I forgot just so that I can tap the check box to watch them go away. My nerdiness knows no bounds.
Just like a nerd, after I got the thing I started searching around for different little applicatios to download onto it. I've gotta say that there really aren't enough free games out there. Either that, or I haven't spent enough time looking.
Another excellent thing on the PDA is that you can convert large textfiles into a .doc format and then read them all over the place. It's a bit ridiculous to think that I'll actually find time to read some book that's so old that no one owns the copyrght material while I'm waiting for a bus, but it's nice to think it could happen.
Another good feature is this whole Avantgo.com business, which lets you download news, weather, and other info every time you connect the PDA to the internet. I've been happily reading my news on a smaller screen for several weeks and I can't say it's all bad. We'll see if THIS THING ever gets posted.
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Monday, May 17, 2004
Saturday, May 15, 2004
This latest polling is almost encouraging for November's election debauchery.
Big day around the homestead. Went to ikea and bought a couch. We were going to go to home depo but didn't have time.
Wednesday, May 12, 2004
Thursday, May 06, 2004
I wonder if there's some way have something dead made into jewelry... Hmmm...
Monday, May 03, 2004
Take some time to read this article in the New Yorker relating to the naked prisoner pyramids that you get when you hire an army of mercenaries to go to war for no particular reason.
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