Archive for December, 2006

Planes, Trains, Bicycles, Light Rail, Buses, Sneakers, and Automobiles

Saturday, December 30th, 2006

Yup, we’re on holiday. We spent three nights in Auburn, three nights in San Francisco, and we’re now in Orange County for fawnapril’s niece’s wedding. We’ve used most of the major forms of land transportation known to man. We’ve also eaten the best salmon tacos ever, and eaten Ti Couz crepes not [...]

Le Geek, C’est Moi

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

While waiting for the color printer at school to gag down the gargantuan file I threw at it today, I decided to make some Slack and Gloom markers for Chez Geek and Chez Goth. And, since several of you also play, I’m sharing them with y’all. They’re considerably lighter than pennies. (=

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Tears Of Laughter

Monday, December 11th, 2006

Gifts To The World by the Sin Destroyers transcends mere satire. This, my good friends, is Art. I laughed until tears ran down my face. Bugs flew into my gaping mouth and took up residence. And now, I really, really, have to pee.
(Thanks just don’t cut it: my firstborn child [...]

Confidence: Inspired.

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

I came downtown to have lunch with my sweetie, who’s got jury duty today. Afterward, I stopped by Pioneer Courthouse Square to check out the launch party for Portland’s new free wi-fi network, being operated by MetroFi. On the corner is a temporary antenna being powered by a gas generator — presumably they [...]

Dodged *That* Bullet

Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

…or, the article could fail to quote me altogether, talk about my ring instead, get my sweetie’s job wrong, and then misquote her as saying the exact opposite of what she actually said.
I think I’ll happily go back to being a nobody now.
(Actually, it wasn’t all that bad. And at least America still doesn’t [...]

Police Doggy Dog

Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

Ah, it’s that time of the year again, when incredibly perky Christmas music wafts through the air like cotton candy, sticking to your ears no matter how many Handy-Wipes(tm) you use…

Famous Among Dozens?

Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

Sorry, Maggie — I just had to swipe your tagline for this one.
We (as in fawnapril and I) are going to be in (as in we were on the phone with a reporter for an hour and then had several hundred photos taken of us for) the New York Times tomorrow (as in Sunday, even [...]

Free Running

Friday, December 1st, 2006

I enjoy watching virtuoso performances of all kinds. I love seeing the incredible things that the human body is capable of; I love being reminded that while, yes, the physical world imposes some annoying limits on us, they’re not nearly as constricting as I’m used to thinking they are. And I like seeing [...]