Powdered Non Sequitur Man

It might just be me, but John Ashcroft bears a striking resemblance to the Cigarette Smoking Man…

Hmm. George W. Bush takes office. Two days later, we get news of an oil spill off the Galapagos Islands. Some might call this a coincidence. I choose to call it an omen.
Never mind the abortion rights issue. Ugh.

On the company intranet, I ran across this little gem: “The Black & White Ball is a bi-annual fundraiser for the San Francisco Symphony and be held on Saturday, June 2, 2001 at the Civic Center.” (An’ I be takin’ my punk-ass to Portland waaay before that jive thang be goin’ down.)
Also, I [...]

Oh, the perky Irishmen are Gaelic Storm. Evidently they were in some stupendously bad flick with Prettyboy DiCaprio and Kate “look at my hooters” whatsername. Don’t hold it against ‘em. ;>

And bad Lego animations. Life is now complete.

Ode to the K-Car…

One of my coworkers asked me today if I had seen Netscape 6 yet. I told her, honestly, that I had installed it, opened it up, and twenty minutes later, uninstalled it. Really. It’s that bad. I even deleted the installer from my HD, and I never delete installs once I’ve [...]

My friend Maggie used an interesting phrase last week: “first world living.” As in, “That’s some first world living right there.”
Here’s some more: I decided to leave the aforementioned conference after the second-to-last session of the afternoon. On the way to the ferry terminal, I stopped off at Noah’s to pick up [...]

Ya just gotta love those perky Irishmen:
I can drink and not get drunk
I can fight and not get slain
I can sleep with another man’s lass
And still be welcome to me ain
(Heard it on the car CD player this morning; I don’t know the band to attribute it to. Maybe later.)

Response to my previous posts about coding my own weblog from scratch: “XML *DOM*? What do you *do* when I’m not around?” Heh. That would be “DOM” as in “Document Object Model,” not the other kind of dom (or domme, as the case may be).
For my next trick, I’ll be making jokes [...]

Gentlemen, shake thine heinies!
Leaving the ferry terminal in Alameda, I saw a bumper sticker that said “Shake Your Ass For Jesus.” Lo, I was amused. I thought it might be some weight-loss cult or possibly an actual cult — you know, training the paranoid Xtian militia through techno-soundtrack step aerobics or something. [...]

So I’m going to this conference thingie and sitting still for a full day of Microsoft indoctrination. There are overtones of Apple’s infamous 1984 commercial here. Never mind that — Microsoft is totally stealing my thunder.
I guess I could explain. I’m using Blogger to capture a few thoughts while I’m working on [...]

Oh, my. cheese poetry. Another olde favourite from ye archived hyper-linkes.

tangible evidence of the existence of Satan

So having even a somewhat-popular blog must be a little bit like being a celebrity. At having dinner with my friend Maggie last night, I made a reference to an amusing story she’d posted about a recent Surreal Dentistry Experience. She then told the story to my girlfriend (who hadn’t read it), and [...]

One more test, with some other HTML code…Hello world
Isn’t that like the first thing everybody does?

Here’s another test, this time with a link to my resume.

This here is a test. I’m, like, entering some text or something.