First, let me say it’s apparently a really good thing that I didn’t get that Arabic shirt for this trip. One of the inspectors answered him “you can’t wear a t-shirt with Arabic script and come to an airport. It is like wearing a t-shirt that reads “I am a robber” and going to a bank”. I’m trying to come… Read more →
Month: August 2006
I wonder what my boss would say…
… if I called in “Guantanamo” on Monday, instead of showing up in Boston for work. “Calling in Gitmo” is the international travellers trump-card version of “calling in sick” here at the beginning of the third millenium. If I had seen the t-shirt below a while ago, instead of just now, I would totally have ordered one, and would have… Read more →
I am so… aroused.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a page on the Internet that has aroused me more than this one. (Link is safe for work, unless you have the same mental quirks as I do.) If I weren’t working right now I would totally spend the next couple of hours following those links at the bottom. And I am buying that… Read more →
Hm…
Has the KKK invented a time machine?
Seriously: what the hell? This is still 2006 right? Black Students Ordered to Give Up Bus Seats to White Children By Vickie Welborn The Shreveport Times COUSHATTA — Nine black children attending Red River Elementary School in Louisiana were directed last week to the back of the school bus by a white driver who designated the front seats for white… Read more →
You could chase a bear with a buggy whip!
When I first moved to Nova Scotia, I discovered that I had apparently moved to “the South Shore“. You see, the ocean side of Nova Scotia is essentially divided into two areas: the South Shore, which runs from Halifax down the coast to Yarmouth, and the Eastern Shore which runs up the coast to Canso. Amusingly, to get to the… Read more →
Danny Michel On CBC
Thanks to a timely pointer from George Jones, I managed to catch Danny‘s appearance on the national radio program Sounds Like Canada this morning. This is same Danny oft-mentioned here before, and with whom I had my recent short bit of “life on tour”, which I still haven’t written up. And, since I am still too busy to generate real… Read more →
Also, Wow.
My daughter is 2 years old. We have conversations. Time flies. Read more →
The Truman Doctrine
This is another post brought to you by my wife’s studies, while I am too busy to post. Please allow me to quote from President Harry S. Truman’s address before a joint session of Congress , March 12, 1947: At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too… Read more →
Still not dead
Just very busy. Since I last posted I have: Had a friend visit for 4 days Attended a folk festival Completely redesigned the policy evaluation code that drives “my” product Won an HGPA Hold ‘Em tournament (with the largest pot in association history) Taken a sick day And many other things…. none of which have left me with blogging time… Read more →
Wednesday Linkblogging
OK, let’s clear some tabs. What is up with North America’s unrealistic boob size fascination? Digital enhancements? “…magazine publishers in the US ban stars from appearing on their front covers unless they have at least a C-cup size, or are willing to be digitally enhanced to make it appear as if they have”?!??! Man, we really are all crazy. Does… Read more →
I smell like a hippie
I’ve been showering for three days now with some soap I picked up while buying bath stuff for Sarah, and Trish keeps telling me I smell like a hippie. Apparently the Karma soap from LUSH smells exactly like that combination of nag champa and oranges that is forever bound in her mind (and mine too, if I’m being honest) to… Read more →
This is the Age of Reason, these are the Rights of Man
For some reason I can’t get Dick Gaughan out of my head today. More specifically, I can’t get Gaughan’s version of the Graham Moore song “Tom Paine’s Bones” out my head. Gaughan’s version is so much more passionate, or maybe angry, than Moore’s, that it sticks in my head as the definitive one–of course, it might just be that Gaughan… Read more →
Screaming at people about what’s going on…
Just a quick list of things that the U.S. are doing that are making me righteously angry (a subset of the full list of things that are making me righteously angry): An utterly forseeable consequence. It doesn’t take a tremendous amount of insight to grasp that an organizational hierarchy will develop a need to justify itself, and its budget. It’s… Read more →
SF Authors (and editors) saying more smart things…
We’ll grab a couple of them today: Will Shetterly talking about Mormon underwear: Here’s one way to tell a faith from a racket: If it makes you think you’re better than everyone else, it’s a racket, not a faith. I kind of love that. It’s the answer to all the “One True Religion” and “Chose People of X” things that… Read more →
