25 February 2005 – 11:47 pm +0800
Work safe? It’s such a thin line, when you think about it. Just three overstuffed patches of fabric render this image totally work safe. Ain’t life funny?
24 February 2005 – 11:59 pm +0800
On the inskirts of the out-crowd
Getting smaller every minute.
And I tried to buy that gold mine
but they said I had to win it.
So I sent a hundred box tops
and the UPC codes printed
on the skins of those iguanas
and some quarters, freshly minted.
I may look good on the outside
but I’m broken on the inside,
well you said [...]
24 February 2005 – 11:53 pm +0800
Work safe? This one has everything and the bathroom sink.
24 February 2005 – 11:20 pm +0800
Rand Simberg points out this ignorant howler:
The European-built Huygens descended through the dense atmosphere and touched down on the largest and most intriguing moon of Saturn on Friday.
On board is a $12 million spectrogram built by scientists at the University of Colorado at Boulder that will analyze electroviolet light.
(Emphases Simberg’s.)
Words fail me nearly as much [...]
24 February 2005 – 11:04 pm +0800
Someone really should have thought through the phrasing of this:
Walt Disney Co. plans to relocate its Miramax Films unit to Los Angeles, where a streamlined version of the arthouse titan will operate like “an elite SWAT team,” according to a Disney source.
And they don’t really do a good job explaining the metaphor anywhere in the [...]
23 February 2005 – 11:59 pm +0800
A lot of people out there still think Easy Rider had a happy ending.
— P.J. O’Rourke
23 February 2005 – 11:49 pm +0800
Work safe? On hump day? Are you kidding?
23 February 2005 – 6:33 pm +0800
No big news today, either. Just the standard two posts and an excuse.
Got some great designs in the works, though.
22 February 2005 – 11:59 pm +0800
Life may not be exactly pleasant, but it is at least not dull. Heave yourself into Hell today, and you may miss, tomorrow or next day, another Scopes trial, or another War to End War, or perchance a rich and buxom widow with all her first husband’s clothes. There are always more Hardings hatching. I [...]
22 February 2005 – 11:48 pm +0800
Work safe? Negatory, amigo.
22 February 2005 – 11:07 pm +0800
Had to step out all afternoon doing some personal detective work (mostly without result, alas), and have spent the evening brainstorming ideas for a new site design. The default WordPress 1.5 design is nice, granted (so much nicer than the old one!), but I want something distinctive and unique.
In fact, it may be that [...]
21 February 2005 – 11:59 pm +0800
They’re only red from all the tears
that I should have shed.
They’re only red from all the women
that I could have wed.
So when you look into these eyes,
I hope you realize:
they could never be blue,
they could never be blue…
— Beautiful South, “Old Red Eyes Is Back”
21 February 2005 – 11:50 pm +0800
Work safe? We assure you that the presence of naughty bits is not explicit, only implied. Strongly implied.
And you’ve never wanted to be an apple so much in your life.
21 February 2005 – 10:27 pm +0800
Certain acronyms become, with time and usage, words unto themselves. These new words will be treated as words, rather than the originating acronym. Examples include laser, radar, and scuba. In fact, many younger people might not even know that these words were originally acronyms.
Thus, if an acronym carries specific meaning independent of [...]
21 February 2005 – 8:09 pm +0800
China expressed “grave concern” over a joint statement of the United States and Japan listing Taiwan as one of their “common strategic objectives” in the Asia-Pacific region, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said here Sunday, saying that any “irresponsible remarks” on China’s national defense is “untenable.”
That and two RMB will get you halfway up the Number [...]