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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Funny’ Category
Best User Guide Ever
This is what we’re up against. Perfectly intelligent people can’t tell a white paper from a user guide.
How-To 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.
The W3C’s new SEX 1.0 specification – O’Reilly XML Blog
I usually don’t go in for April Fool’s kind of stuff, but this is moderately funny, in a mildly geeky way.
Go immediately to this site
This is currently the best site on the web. (It acceded to the position after this one abdicated recently.)
Dim like me
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 your not-so-selective [...]
Whine
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 [...]
Search engines in flight
This and this, taken together, are about the coolest thing I have seen on the Web in months.
Beach bonfire
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 [...]
Cheaper at the Co-op
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 (white) American accent do you have?
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 Midland
The Northeast
Philadelphia
The [...]
Burning questions
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 worker’s state
Make Free [...]
Rotisserie politics
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.
Going Bedouin
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 [...]
Go see it.
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 [...]
When I’m 64
Garrison on Salon.com: “Twenty-four people packed into the dining room for my 64th birthday dinner and made a steady dull roar from the salad course right on through the cake and coffee, and I hardly got a word in edgewise. People kept inquiring if I was having fun, which is irritating. The answer is no. [...]
Word of the day
Disambiguate.
Got to be kidding. First person on my team to use this word gets 10 pushups.
Pen in hand
I don’t expect that there will be time for it, but if I can I’m going to try to participate in this little experiment. You try too. Let’s see what happens.