Just for Al.
Wednesday, September 21st, 2005This post is really just for my old pal the Classics Phd, since she’s probably the only person I know (possibly excepting Chris the Sub Wizard) who could actually read it:
Archive for September, 2005
Tuesday Miscellany
Tuesday, September 20th, 2005Instead of actual content, a placeholder, in the form of happy and sad links from around cyberspace.
Part of the reason I don’t have time for real entries today is that tonight is poker night, and the first link I’m bringing you is something that would be a definite hit with the poker fools–it’s kind of [...]
About Movies: DVD Wishlist
Monday, September 19th, 2005A few years ago, around the time I was first considering getting a DVD player (I was a very late adopter of this technology, unlike most things) I commented to some friends that there were 7 movies that really would want to get DVDs of that I suspected would never be released on DVD. These [...]
About Movies: Atlantic Film Festival Blog
Monday, September 19th, 2005I am somewhat saddened that due to a conflation of poor planning, vacation timing, parenthood, and crap at the office, that I won’t be seeing nearly as many films this year at the Atlantic Film Festival as I have in past years.
However, my weekly poker pal Carsten (no, you can’t call him Bu’)–one of who’s [...]
Lascivious and funny
Saturday, September 17th, 2005So, it’s a pretty well-known fact at this point that I think Veronica Mars was the best thing on TV last season.
So how is it that I’m finding out only now that Kristen Bell starred in a musical version of Reefer Madness?
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Update: The DVD of this appears to be available for pre-order. [...]
Narrow focus, broad focus
Saturday, September 17th, 2005My favourite paragraph about post-Katrina reconstruction on the internets today comes from author John Scalzi:
Bush wants to spend $200 billion to rebuild the South, which is good in theory, but I expect his administration to do a good job at the effort about as much as I expect my cat to whip up a light [...]
Can I get a little more me in the monitor?
Saturday, September 17th, 2005Every time I think I’m getting whack-o paranoid, the Bushies come along and double down on the unsubtle machinations.
Like Thursday night’s speech, where Bush calls for ‘more power for me, and less restrictions on me’. Well, maybe not in those words, but he did actually say:
“It is now clear that a challenge on this scale [...]
Private security forces
Friday, September 16th, 2005So, there’s obviously a lot of Katrina stuff that I could rant about, but I feel like the blogosphere mostly has that covered.
However, one thing that I find startling, more in how much no one else seems to be startled than in the thing itself, is this whole Blackwater Security thing.
To quote from Wiki News [...]
We’re still living in a Dilbert strip
Friday, September 16th, 2005There’s a simple test to see if you are ready for the position of Senior Vice President at a large, North American-based, global software company.
Can you say this:
To deliver products of the highest quality, we must implement a world-class development process that requires stringent approvals and ensures all development activities are business related to provide [...]
Attention Small Press Publishers
Tuesday, September 13th, 2005I would gladly pay tall dollars for a really nice hard cover edition of Jeffrey Ford’s The Physiognomy. Indeed, I would pay even taller dollars for a nice matched edition of it and the two subsequent books (Memoranda, The Beyond). Why won’t someone take my money?
(I haven’t read the new one yet, but based on [...]
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
Monday, September 12th, 2005Hm. I seem to have just taken a 10-day family vacation. I’m shocked to discover that A) I can survive 10 days without being connected, and B) things keep happening even when I’m not paying attention.
Anyway, work has piled up, as have other things, so I may be a bit sketchy for the next couple [...]
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