25 April 2005 – 11:57 pm +0800
What marketing genius puttering around for new flavors decided that the lack of a cocoa-flavored carbonated beverage was a sign of thinking-inside-the-box blindness instead of one of the unwritten rules of decent civilizations?
— Nathan Shumate, 15 April 2005
22 April 2005 – 11:59 pm +0800
It’s April twenty-first
and everybody knows
today is Earth Day
Merry Christmas
Happy Birthday
to whoever’s being born.
— Dramarama, “What Are We Doing Here?”
22 April 2005 – 11:48 pm +0800
Work safe? Spring is here, the weekend looms, and if you prefer your goddesses clothed, go elsewhere.
22 April 2005 – 8:14 am +0800
Not quite sure how I ended up with this result, but…
Your Inner European is Russian!
Mysterious and exotic.
You’ve got a great balance of danger and allure.
Who’s Your Inner European?
Had you asked, I might have gone with German, French, or Italian. Russian, though? I don’t know about that.
(þJay)
22 April 2005 – 8:01 am +0800
Well, the WitNit tagged me for a meme he created, confessing your stupidest moment to the world.
The catalogue is both broad and deep, but I’m presuming that he means my adult self, which robs me of the chance to relate how I discovered, at two years old, what a hot stove feels like.
And, since it [...]
21 April 2005 – 11:59 pm +0800
Every night I take a ride
with little ol’ Lucy Brown.
We went to all the honkytonks
and we really got around.
She’s five foot two with eyes of blue
and pretty as a queen.
I didn’t know pop was a city cop
and she was just fifteen!
Good morning, Judge!
Why do you look so mean, sir?
And Mister Judge,
what can the charges be?
— [...]
21 April 2005 – 11:45 pm +0800
Work safe? Er, can I get back to you on that?
UPDATE: Still checking…
21 April 2005 – 7:44 pm +0800
I’m still finding my bearings on Mandrakelinux (which is now, apparently, Mandriva, to dodge a ludicrous lawsuit from Hearst Publications). I’d dearly love to find a not-quite-idiot’s guide to the theory behind Linux, especially its file system, because some parts make sense, and some parts are seriously weirding me out. (For example, how [...]
20 April 2005 – 11:58 pm +0800
Bad faith isn’t the only problem to watch for. Bad ideas are what kill you.
— Frank Warner, 18 April 2005
20 April 2005 – 11:53 pm +0800
Work safe? Yeah, but it’s a bikini full of trouble.
20 April 2005 – 7:47 am +0800
It’s that you can see what Clark Kent looks like in Bryan Singer’s upcoming Superman Returns, and the news is spectacular. There’s a shot of Lois Lane, too.
19 April 2005 – 11:59 pm +0800
If education provides anything, it should be an ability to think — that is, to weigh one idea against an opposing idea, and to use evidence and logic to try to determine what is true and what is false. That is precisely what our schools and colleges are failing to teach today.
— Thomas Sowell
19 April 2005 – 11:50 pm +0800
Work safe? Well, kinda, but…
19 April 2005 – 2:35 pm +0800
Is there a better album from the 1990s than Cowboy Junkies’ black eyed man?
I’ve owned it since ‘92 or ‘93, never been without it, never had a year where I didn’t have at least a week when it was in heavy rotation in my listening list, and it never, ever gets old. Probably the [...]
19 April 2005 – 7:34 am +0800
I turned on my computer around 7 a.m. yesterday.
Turned it off just after midnight.
Rebooted it exactly zero times in that period, and had no slowdowns, something unheard of in WinXP. (I did log out and back in to activate some installed software, but only because I wanted to, not because I was forced to.)
Awwww, [...]