I’m strangely fascinated by the concept of this blog. I think that this is something that would have been a good idea in college, at least to break the ice. This reminds me of the guy who showered with a hundred women.
Monthly Archives: June 2006
Shameless Mercantilism II
Look! Better Amazon links over there on the sidebar. Now things are not nearly as mercenary as before.
The Gospel
In case you have not being paying attention to the most important religous revolution of our times, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster has released their canonical Gospels. Looks like something to add to the Amazon wish list.
Shameless Mercantilism? Or Laziness?
The astute among you (or the not-so-blind) will notice the Amazon Links on the sidebar of the blog. Don’t get all huffy! I don’t expect to make any money with this thing. I’ve let my book list die over the last year or so, and have recently decided it needs to make some sort of …
Summer Solstice
Tomorrow is the summer solstice, known as the first day of summer to Americans. Why do we call this the first day of summer? Weather-wise, it’s more like the end of the first third of summer. Oh well… I trolled for some Solstice Superstitions. Most of them hark to druidish type things, and were too …
God hates Shrimp
The title says it all. I guess we can’t eat Penguins, either. Not unless we catch them on land.
Acronyms (Initialisms) and You!
I run across numerous acronyms and initialisms in my job. It’s not as bad as the military, but there are plenty, let me tell you. I’m reading a report this morning and happen across the following quote, which lists an interesting initialism: The High Hazard Location System (HSP) is a flexible…* HSP? Where did they …
Moronic Self Loathing = "Treasure Hunt"
I just wasted 45 minutes of my life. Usually, I don’t mind pissing away the allotted time I have before death, but this time, I resent it right down to my toenails. We Tivo’d NBC’s Treasure Hunt (to which I refuse to hyperlink) this evening. We sat down and started up the Tivo and slowwwwly …
Prairie Home, Hurricanes, and Levi's Call
Messy title, for a messy post. Here goes… We saw A Prairie Home Companion on Friday. I confess that I had high expectations for this movie, given the character of the radio show from Minnesota Public Radio. We arrived a few minutes before show time and didn’t have any problem getting seats. Let’s just say …
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Googledemort?
Performing my duty as the NY Times’ bitch, I mention this story (which you probably won’t be able to access after today) wherein they speak of a new data center that Google is building in Oregon. The fact that Google is behind the data center, referred to locally as Project 02, has been reported in …