Powdered Non Sequitur Man

Amusing article about a bike shop in Eugene who, in the spirit of Les Schwab Tire’s “free beef with your tires” promotion, is offering free tofu when you buy bike tires.

Wow, we’re famous! Or something.
[Update: I sent the link to my dad, whose response was, "All you Portland people could use some time in the sunshine." My dad rocks.]

Got a cold call from a recruiter today asking if I’d be interested in a full-time job for half my asking rate working on database software to be used in a call center environment by a market analysis company. To my credit, I did not actually laugh out loud, but I do believe I [...]

From an email announcing a GLBT Passover seder in Porland (emphasis, as always, added):
The seder is scheduled for Thursday, April 17 at 7:00 pm and features a catered dinner. The meal is kosher upon request and is non-vegetarian.
(And yes, I know “cake or death” referred to the C of E, but somehow it seemed [...]

Plunk me down at a computer and I’m good to go, but I just took delivery of a TI-92 Plus graphing calculator, and I haven’t got the first clue how to use it. Fortunately, I’ll be taking a class.

So I’ve just been watching Becoming American on PBS. It’s absolutely amazing, and very heart-wrenching to watch: one minute you’re in utter awe of a people’s tenacity, the next you’re despairing as everything you’ve believed about your country is ripped to tiny little shreds. Watch it.

Reason #8,243,840 to thwap Florida over the head and remind them that, yes, we have this little thing called the First Amendment for a reason.
And yes, I realize it applies solely to the government, and that private censorship is technically just peachy-keen according to the Constitution, but I’ve been hearing about shit like this from [...]

Working on a doublet to get married in today. While I suppose you could call what I’m doing today “sewing,” it’s really more accurately dubbed “scissoring.” I have to cut out each of about 10 pieces from a pattern in 3 different fabrics. It’s fun, but my right hand is tired (shaddup, [...]

Thought-provoking op-ed piece over at Salon about the George II administration’s decision to “embed” reporters in US combat units:
This war is being reported as montage. You get a series of quick cuts from one area to another but because there is virtually no larger picture being provided — Gen. Tommy Franks, the head of command, [...]

So I’m reading this wire story about peace protests around the world and suddenly:
In Auckland, New Zealand, a Roman Catholic priest and another man said they used their own blood to make a 3-foot-long cross on the carpet of the U.S. Consul’s office after they made an appointment to see the diplomat, purportedly to read [...]

It can happen so quickly. One morning you wake up, drive down to meet your realtor and look at a house, and decide you want to make an offer. The next thing you know, you’re bagging up the newspaper recycling and find yourself fascinated by an article in the automotive section about… an [...]

Can you guess which one is me? (Hint: I’m in the top left quarter. Oh, and the design is the Chinese character for “peace.”)

Clay Shirky has some interesting essays up on the Internet and related technologies. Many of them are not so much “here’s what I think about topic X” or even “here’s what you should think about technology X” as “here’s a concise summary of some issues you might want to think about relating to technology [...]

Why can’t I sleep when I’m so very tired? This sucks.

So Al Gore got elected to the board of Apple, which is just odd. But it provides some excellent fodder for this blog entry: Bush Demands Recount In Gore’s Board Election. Of particular noteworthiness is this little dig at Tipper:
Apple’s press release described Gore as “an avid Mac user” who “does his [...]

My friend Christyn sent me an invitation to join this website. Normally I’m pretty dubious about such things, but as it happened, I wanted to get a picture of her for my own Nefarious Purposes ™. Anyway, said website is actually kind of nifty — it’s a “six degrees of separation” kind of [...]

Senior White House officials said they did not expect Saddam to seek exile. Thus, Bush planned to be at war within a matter of days, they said.
And so it begins. We’ve all known it was coming, but this ridiculous 48-hour deadline saddens me immensely. We’re going to war (click here for some thoughts [...]

StreamRipperX rocks my tiny little world. Basically, it turns streaming ‘net radio into a bunch of MP3 files. It would not be too bold a statement to say that between this program and iTunes, this Mac has already changed the way I listen to music.

Here’s something I never thought I’d see: a cool gun. Really.
(link via boing boing)

“Over The Rainbow” should not be sung in Klingon. No no no. It really shouldn’t even be a karaoke song in English, but Klingon? Definitely not.
(Yes, I’m serious. There was an article in today’s paper about a club which has Klingon and Storm Trooper karaoke nights on Tuesdays and Thursdays. [...]