“You ever try a pink golf ball, Wally? Why, the wind shear on a pink golf ball alone can take the head clean off a 90-pound midget at over 300 yards!”
– from Six-String Samurai, a movie that is beyond bizarre.
Possibly one of the most offensive acts I can think of, aside from human sacrifice, slavery, and rape, is that of book-burning. Don’t like a book? Fine. Don’t read it. But setting it on fire because you’re afraid that, through exposure to an idea, someone might choose to think differently than [...]
I’ve been spending a fair amount of time these days preoccupied with recumbent bicycles (or tricycles), to the extent that my sweetie has decided it’s my new “Hobby Of The Month” — in other words, an intense obsession with something (e.g., aikido, sewing, papermaking) that quickly fades, leaving me with unused accoutrements.
But the joke’s on [...]
Um… a jet bike?
As my sweetie quipped, “Only in Orange County would people selling recumbent bikes be conservative.”
Yes. Oh, yes. What the_misha called “the movie” was quite good, although I maintain that Aragorn was miscast. It’s not that Viggo Mortensen is a bad actor — far from it, he did a great job — I just don’t think that anyone with enough travelling under his belt to be called [...]
We walk out the front door, past the orange tree, get in the car and drive, past the palm trees, to a grocery store. As we approach the entrance, my sweetie’s niece in tow, we see a Scoutmaster and his charge selling fund-raising candy. To their left, sweating in the sun, sits an [...]
Aiyee. Flying for the second weekend in a row. I’m not taking my laptop, I’ll have pretty much no chance to get online, and if I do, it’ll be from a really old computer… but I’ll be fine. Really. *twitch* *twitch*
If it’s not one damn thing, it’s another: Apparently one of my uncles on the side of the family I don’t speak to has decided that I don’t have enough of a sense of humor. The first email I have ever received from him in my entire life contained …drum roll, please… a [...]
Lawrence Lessig, copyright professor at Stanford, on the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA), which, he says, “we’ve renamed the ‘Mickey Mouse Protection Act’”:
[...] Prove the government has a good reason to silence my speech.
Now I do believe the government sometimes does have a good reason. And in particular with copyright, I do believe [...]
Our toilet “sweats” in the winter. Having spent my whole life until now in the more temperate portions of California, I find this concept quite odd.
For some strange reason, this (from an AP story):
“We have decided, based on the evidence we collected, that it would not be appropriate to prosecute Alaska Airlines criminally at this time,” said Matt Jacobs, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office.
reminds me of this:
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the multinational corporations
And to the [...]
I’ve never had a car I didn’t own outright. As a consequence, I’ve always had cars that could most generously be described as “not young.” So obviously I have no idea what I’m doing when I walk into the bank and ask them, pretty please, to tell me how much money they’d be [...]
Two random things from this morning’s newspaper:
Mr. Methane, “The world’s only performing Flotulist”
Rock & Roll Camp For Girls, an idea badly in need of some cash.
Seldom, if ever, does a comic strip leave me panicky, short of breath and near tears. This one did. I’m sure nobody wishes Ruben Bolling and Tom Tomorrow were out of jobs more than they do, but I’m probably running a very close second at this moment.
The scenario: I’ve just walked in the door, I’ve got one slipper on and one wet shoe on. The phone rings. I drop the other shoe and pick it up before the machine can get it.
me: Hello?
them: Hello, may I speak to Sam _____?
me: Speaking.
them: Hello, my name is _____ _____ and [...]
… how about you? Where do you get your ideas?
Salon demonstrated today that it is perfectly capable of rising to the Onion’s level of high satire:
“Regardless of the format, this DVD clearly demonstrates bin Laden’s callous disregard for human life,” Secretary of State Colin Powell said. “But I have to admit he did a really nice job of cleaning up the sound. It really [...]
You know you’re a geek when you do the homework for your Unix class on a weekly basis, starting after dinner on the evening it’s due, and just do the work product required (plus whatever extra credit was easy to do), not all of the reading. You also know you’re a geek when you [...]
Being not entirely immune to trash, I clicked on the link that said “Tom Green divorcing Drew Barrymore”, whereupon I got a little tiny chuckle: “[...] irreconcilable differences was the reason for the split.” (Hyperlink added.)