Powdered Non Sequitur Man

Just started a new Scrabble game with Justin, and I had the tiles to make “HAIKU” as my opening play.
Is your fu mighty?
Prepare for a word battle –
The Scrabble smackdown!

We just bought cell phones. At Wal-Mart.
So now, uh, we can call Satan to make reservations from wherever we happen to be. (=
(I feel compelled to point out that this is the first time in my life I’ve ever bought anything from Wal-Mart. It’ll probably be the last. However, we did [...]

Firefox 1.5 is out. Hopefully this version won’t crash when I open or close GMail. (=
One nice feature they added: you can now drag and drop to reorder tabs. (This feature was previously available via an extension.) Dragging between windows is still a little weird; Opera still has a slight [...]

The Five Stages Of No Internet Access. Also known as “Carol Lay actually being funny for once.”

The next time someone asks me why I buy such expensive sunglasses, I’m referring them to this post. I picked up a $7.59 pair at Walgreen’s today, brought them home in a bag, and as I was washing them in the bathroom sink, both lenses fell out. One of them broke on the [...]

Sweet internship I am in no way qualified for. Damn. Although the position would be in Pasadena, so really it’s just as well. ;>

In a situation that’s, um, unusual (to say the least), I not only finished one of Charles Krauthammer’s editorials, I actually agreed with it. I even laughed out loud at one of the lines *he* thought was funny!
Let’s be clear. “Intelligent design” may be interesting as theology, but as science it is [...]

Once and for all: “discreet,” meaning “circumspect” or “trustworthy,” used to refer to someone you’d expect to keep a secret, is NOT SPELLED “discrete.”
“Discrete” means “distinct.” In math, it also means “finite” or “countable.”
KNOW THE DIFFERENCE. Here’s an example to help: “James is a really discreet tutor; he didn’t tell anybody [...]

fawnapril started her new job today. It’s nice to see her come home from work happy and excited; this is a Good Thing.

Well, this is as close to an all-nighter as I’m likely to get at this stage of my physical decrepitude. The assignment that’s due tomorrow is 95% done. (I sacrificed one that was due today in another class; there went whatever was left of my weekend.) Sadly, doing this huge (48-page!) design [...]

Cindy Sheehan, to whom I must give a great deal of credit for providing a mediagenic face to the current antiwar movement, said today, “2,062 people have been killed as of today in this monstrosity.”
To which I ask: What, Iraqis aren’t people?
Isn’t that the sort of thinking that gets us *into* messes like this?

Go ahead, see if you can tell which is which:
Marines Quiet About Brutal New Weapon
…versus…
Low-cost laptop aims to bridge world’s digital divide

In addition to saying [mostly] nice things about me, Justin also sent me a super-cool LED headlamp! It’s pretty cool, and not not only is it way better than the incandescent one I used to have, I, uh… actually know where this one is! Sweet!

So. Tired.
(Anybody happen to remember the movie that the subject line is from? I’ve been quoting it for years, and I can see the schtick — a fortune teller ends her routine with it and breaks the table as her head falls onto it — but I have no idea what movie it was [...]

Leonard Pitts discusses Pat Robertson and Intelligent Design. Quite entertaining.

(Confused? Today’s my birthday. You’ll have to do a little work to figure out which one. Try this or this.)

Headline: HoustonChronicle.com - ‘Intelligent design’ vote has Robertson warning town
What Pat Robertson said:
“I’d like to say to the good citizens of Dover: If there is a disaster in your area, don’t turn to God, you just rejected Him from your city. And don’t wonder why He hasn’t helped you when problems begin, if [...]

Wow, and I thought software license agreements were bad. From the EFF’s Fred von Lohmann (link), here are just a few of the things Sony doesn’t want you to do with digital copies of its music:
1. If your house gets burgled, you have to delete all your music from your laptop when you get [...]

I went to grab my collection of Sandman graphic novels to inflict on someone who doesn’t yet have the bug, and lo and behold, it seems I’m missing #4: Season of Mists. I guess Powell’s must’ve been out, and I just forgot about it… and now they’ve gone and changed the covers. Which [...]

Forget Walken for president: Zod 2008 - General Zod - 2008 Presidential Candidate.
…then again, there’s always Cthulhu…