Topical songs make the world go ’round
A couple of songs that have been bouncing around in my head for a few months. I finally recorded them so I could get them out of there and start thinking about something else for a change.
A couple of songs that have been bouncing around in my head for a few months. I finally recorded them so I could get them out of there and start thinking about something else for a change.
In honor of the nicest time of year in our fair city — not the four weeks between September 15 and October, which is when 100 percent of the nice weather takes place, but the fraction of that period when the hipsters embark on their annual migration. To the tune of “Summertime.” Burning Man, and [...]
Dept. of FWIW: Here’s what I wrote to Amazon and Paypal after I’d slogged through to their respective “Contact us” pages: I was disappointed that you decided to participate actively in the state’s efforts to limit our freedom of speech by attacking WikiLeaks. Although I have found your services useful, your behavior in this instance [...]
If you suspect (like me) that the best we can hope for from Obama is Lyndon Johnson without the expletives, and that that’s not nothing, this is for you. This is one op-ed that won’t get in the paper. The best restatement of the high-liberal paleo-Keynesian we’re-all-in-this-together ideology that I’ve seen this century. Complete with [...]
This is what we’re up against. Perfectly intelligent people can’t tell a white paper from a user guide.
I try not to be surprised when an amateur comes up with a better how-to guide than I’ve done in a while.
I usually don’t go in for April Fool’s kind of stuff, but this is moderately funny, in a mildly geeky way.
This is currently the best site on the web. (It acceded to the position after this one abdicated recently.)
Hear hear.
The Boston Globe today: Researchers with access to closely guarded college admissions data have found that, on the whole, about 15 percent of freshmen enrolled at Americas highly selective colleges are white teens who failed to meet their institutions’ minimum admissions standards. When I was a white teen, by golly, you had to get into [...]
One’s blog is supposed to be all about whining about the details of one’s personal life, so here you go: I’ve been playing soccer at noon once a week with some of my co-workers, and while a good soccer game is about as much fun as a boring hockey game, that’s still a pretty fair [...]
This and this, taken together, are about the coolest thing I have seen on the Web in months.
Here’s what I’ve been forgetting to report on: A couple of weeks ago our friends Henry and Mark went around town picking up discarded Christmas trees, and invited us all to watch them burn at Ocean Beach after dark. (The trees, not Mark and Henry. They’re both married. [Welcome to the land of jokes gotten [...]
We have cut our total co-op memberships down to one (the biodiesel coop) from a high of three last year (that one plus the food co-op and the preschool co-op). I’ve been in co-ops forever, and the one thing they have all had in common is the net expensiveness of the product they offer, both [...]
What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Inland North You may think you speak “Standard English straight out of the dictionary” but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like “Are you from Wisconsin?” or “Are you from Chicago?” Chances are you call carbonated drinks “pop.” The [...]
I met the software architect for this cool Web 2.0 company at a staff party for one of the schools Mary works at. I’m thinking this could be a very useful tool for settling some of the burning questions that keep me awake nights, such as: State capitalism, or deformed worker’s state? State capitalism Deformed [...]
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Here is a game that looks like either a lot of fun or an incredible bore. Somebody try it and tell me how it turns out.
I’m getting better at catching onto internet hipster buzzwords. At this rate, by 2008 I’ll notice one while it’s actually still in use. Going Bedouin appears to be a term of art for freeloading work space at cafes with free wireless, the way I do most of the week, and look, I’m only about nine [...]
In general, I like movies about which I can say, “I’ve never seen anything like that before.” Mary and I sneaked off and saw the Borat movie the other day and it was like that. My ribs still hurt from the laughing — I think the damage was done during the climactic fight scene in [...]