I’ve seen results from the Asperger’s quiz posted by lots of people I know, and I just want to point out something about these results. I know “me and my friends” is the essence of an anecdotal sample, and not a useful one, but still… The stereotype is that people who are particularly apt at programming (and similar nerd activities)… Read more →
Category: Blog cliches
Yes, Yes I will blog about this
Fear The Dreadhawk
Offered without comment. Read more →
One Thousand (and one)
I am shocked to discover that the previous post was number one thousand. Damn, that’s a lot of my blather. To celebrate my millenipost, I present some of my favourite Latin poetry. This piece is commonly referred to by the highly creative and poetic name “Catallus 5”, since it’s the fifth of surviving works of Catallus. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque… Read more →
Regular Service To Resume Shortly
In the meantime, enjoy a little bit of Get Your War On: Read more →
Punting
Since my blogging time today got subsumed into a lengthy debate about the gender-neutral pronoun in English, the use of “man” to mean homo sapiens and not “a single male human”, and related matters, I have to punt on blogging tonight. (Although the discussion should be the seed of a good post later.) So, for your entertainment tonight, I turn… Read more →
An Interesting Meme
I mostly avoid these, but I seem to have a weakness for the questions Jonathan Carroll asks, as with at least one lengthy previous post, and these ones that got to me today. 1. Describe three meals from your past (preferably breakfast, lunch and dinner) that you would like to have again and why. For me this has to be… Read more →
I expected nothing less
This tiny blog cliche via the R-rated Justine and just-as-risque-as-me Gwenda. The words used to determine this rating CRACK ME UP. For the record they are: “dead”, “drugs”, “death”, “sex”, and “dangerous”. Running the rating routine on various monthly archives of this site generates wildly varying results. Apparently I am remarkably inconsistent in my usage of the “adult” keywords. Heh. Read more →
Favourite Blog Memery
So, over at Shaken & Stirred my pal Gwenda says some very nice things about this blog, and then tags me with one of those memes: list your top five non-book blogs. This is both easier and much harder than “list your top five blogs”. It’s easier since the vast majority of the blogs I followI do have literally hundreds… Read more →
A very lazy post.
I just don’t have anything interesting of my own to say today. I shall let others say interesting things and be on my way. “There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.” — Dorothy Parker “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape… Read more →
My day today
00:00 – 01:00 Still Thursday for me. Watch DVR’d Earl episode (recorded while I was on a conference call with Australians) while debugging some object scoping code on the laptop. 01:00 – 02:00 Daughter wakes up, is unhappy. Requires help with bathroom, and calming from Daddy. I go to bed and start reading the new G. M. Ford book, Blown… Read more →
Some favourites from 2006
I thought I’d start off this year with some omphaloskepsis and put up a quick list of some my favourite posts here from last year. These aren’t the best, or the most popular, just some that I particularly liked. My favourite in January was probably Who We Just Made Our Prime Minister…, wherein I, with the aid of some booze,… Read more →
Yes, I can be in two places at once. Can’t you?
One reason posting frequency has dropped off is that for some reason I am tremendously over-scheduled at work. Not that I have a ton of actual work to do, just that I am constantly scheduled into meetings. I thought a completely full calendar was a pain in the ass, but it’s nothing compared to being double-booked. Here’s one morning this… Read more →
Hmmm. I would not have guessed this.
You are The Devil Materiality. Material Force. Material temptation; sometimes obsession The Devil is often a great card for business success; hard work and ambition. Perhaps the most misunderstood of all the major arcana, the Devil is not really "Satan" at all, but Pan the half-goat nature god and/or Dionysius. These are gods of pleasure and abandon, of wild behavior… Read more →
Busy Weekend
It’s the Thanksgiving long weekend in Canada, and I am too busy with my family to be blogging about Cheney’s latest fearmongering, the connections between private industry and counter-terrorism, excellent mockings of the crazy christian lobby, fine insults, or the lessons of Soviet history. Instead, I’m spending my time on stuff like this: (Yes, that is her first time riding.… Read more →
