Reasonable precautions? (2004/09/27)
(Posted originally in the Republican forum on ChristianForums. Edited to make the Sisters of Mercy reference clearer.)
[read more...]Sharpening the butter pencil. (2004/09/23)
My spouse is a wonderful artist. He can draw a person well enough that you can tell how often he works out, and what exercises he skimps on.
[read more...]Wow. (2004/09/23)
Originally, “let’s just drive straight through” was a joke.
[read more...]A practical observation. (2004/09/19)
When an editor asks if 1:51AM Sunday morning is “an okay time to call” and wants to know whether you can have a two thousand word article done “by Monday”… That is a good sign that the answer to one of life’s pressing dilemmas is “you can pay both the mortgage and your health coverage, after all”.
[read more...]A delightful ambiguity. (2004/09/16)
So, my friend Kevin said, as we were leaving the coffee shop, that this year we have a choice between a liar and an incompetent. I like that description, because it’s perfectly ambiguous.
[read more...]Donations! (2004/09/15)
Finally added a few more posts to my April Fools page. (2004/09/09)
I do April Fools posts to Usenet almost every year. I haven’t been remembering to add them to my April Fools page, but now I’m mostly caught up again.
[read more...]Project Home (2004/09/09)
So, my church is involved with something called “Project HOME”. I believe it’s the same one as this one, although that’s not my church. But, hey, we all agree on this stuff.
[read more...]AWA revisited: We get to go there, but no thanks to spammers. (2004/09/09)
It turns out that the problem is that Anime Weekend Atlanta loses a lot of mail to spam filters. The alternative, of course, is to not get any at all; for anyone who has published addresses, trying to get by without spam filters is just a joke. (I get well over a thousand spams a day, and I’ve gotten a few hundred bounce messages from a spam run someone put one of my addresses on.)
[read more...]Unless this guy is WAY more subtle than I think he is. (2004/09/07)
We just got visited by the Stupid Thief.
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