Pop quiz, kids!
Going to the Portland Juggling Festival on two days’ notice when you haven’t done any serious juggling in a few months is a good way to:
a) Hang out with lots of math geeks.
b) Be utterly humiliated by hippies.
c) Work up a sweat with 450 people you don’t know.
d) Wonder how you can possibly [...]
*sigh* So I have this friend. (Really!) And my friend is a weirdness magnet in a big, big way. So I suppose I shouldn’t really have been surprised when he told me he’d been contracted to do the user interface design for a “special edition” (whatever that means) of the small-business [...]
When I think it’s irretrievably geekish, you know it’s bad. Some people have way too much time on their hands…
I keep meaning to put up some new pages: one for pictures, another for a multi-user “wish list.” I doubt I’ll get to either tonight, though. *sigh*
I’ve been semi-vegetarian (seafood only, eggs, milk) for over a year and a half now, primarily because of health and environmental concerns. I stopped eating chicken years ago after I read a nasty report on how chickens are processed (did you know USDA inspectors have approximately three seconds to inspect an entire chicken?). [...]
Found this picture of the World Trade Center a few days ago, but wasn’t able to post it until now. Wow.
My sweetie likes to play a game with people that involves finding their secret superhero identity — the weirder your superpower, the better you understand the game. Someone might, for instance, be really good at getting the change out from between the cushions using only their toes and a common household Pez dispenser. [...]
And the GEEK looked upon the verse, and the GEEK said, “WTF?”
Here’s an article entitled Just Because You’re Polyamorous Doesn’t Mean I Want to Have Sex with You”.
Rock on, Pigdog!
The word “onomatopoeic” isn’t very.
I suddenly find myself wanting to be at MIT.
I’m with Justin: reading this story about a phallic carving in someone’s front yard makes me proud to be an American.
It also reminds me of a vacation picture of a suggestive-looking stump. Perhaps I’ll scan those this evening.
The weather forecast in yesterday’s paper predicted today would be cloudy. As it happens, the rain started as a pathetic drizzle when I left for work and has steadily worked its way up to a good soaker as I write this. It’s Portland’s first rain of the season, the beginning of my first [...]
Wow. I guess I wasn’t paying enough attention, but there’s an Atlas of Middle Earth out. This would make an excellent Precious… I mean, birthday present… I mean… oh, never mind. ;>
[Update August 2002: I've seen it; it's not that great.]
“[...] the trend for Microsoft to innovate through its legal staff rather than through software developers could be abetted by product activation.”
– from this article
Yup. Gonna learn Linux. (My class starts today, in fact!)
This has been the Week of Low Tech. My ISP was hit with the “nimdA”/”Code Blue” worm, taking my website down for five days. I also haven’t seen my cell phone in about that long, and believe me, I don’t miss it.
“Freedom is something you assume. Then you wait for someone to try to take it away from you. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.”
– U. Utah Phillips (quoting ‘Old Campbell’)
One of the things that truly frightens me about a “war on terrorism” is this:
When do you finish fighting it?
This is an opportunity to bring back the Cold War, except that this time we don’t have to rely on another superpower to polarize our worldview. As long as there is one person out there [...]
“Loyalty to the country always; loyalty to the government only when it deserves it.”
– attributed to Mark Twain (if you can document it, please let me know.)
I define violence as the imposition of will by force with intent to cause harm.