Weird Stuff, Vol. 2: It's not that the faucet is in the wrong place, mind you. (2003/10/21)
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Manufactured culture (2003/10/21)
What would “aloha” mean if there were no tourists in Hawaii?
[read more...]I made it! No thanks to the TSA. (2003/10/20)
TSA. Transportation Safety Administration. Imagine people who have been tasked with making everyone feel safe. They can’t do a damn thing about the real problem. This is partially because it’s already been done; everyone knows that you don’t cooperate with hijackers now. That solves it. If we’d known that, 9-11 would have been the day a few people got killed - maybe even one whole plane.
[read more...]Packed! (2003/10/19)
Packing has gotten less stressful over the years. The secret? A carefully-maintained list. If you have the list, and modify it every time you miss something, you gradually develop a very complete list. Perhaps too complete. My computer backpack is 20 pounds, not including my monster laptop. My suitcase doesn’t bear thinking about. But, of course, it is unthinkable that I should be away from home and not have audio and video cables handy in case I… Hmmm. Well, I can’t think of a use for them now, but maybe something will come to mind. I’ve stopped bringing the SCSI adapter, but I do have just about everything else. Two keyboards, trackball, movies, floppy adapter, blank CD’s, books…
[read more...]Tragically, I hate going to Hawaii (2003/10/18)
I think this will be my third trip to Hawaii. I still don’t like it. I don’t know why; I’m sure it’s a wonderful place. I think it has to do with travel time; it takes most of a day to get from here to there. This has gotten worse with the flood of totally irrelevant airline “security” measures.
[read more...]Formal debate! (2003/10/16)
I was 0wn3d by a small child. (2003/10/14)
So, I was at Best Buy, with my friend Kevin, and I saw a GameCube running a shiny new game called “Soul Calibur 2”. So I went and poked a few buttons to see what it looked like. Beautiful.
[read more...]I forgot to mention... (2003/10/12)
I am nature’s Friend To Opportunistic Lung Bacteria. About half the time when I get a cold, I get a nasty bacterial lung crud immediately afterwards. I forgot to mention this, I guess.
[read more...]I'm back! (2003/10/06)
I’m not all the way better, but I’m better enough to start working again, and that implies that I feel up to writing.
[read more...]I can't write well with a cold. (2003/09/29)
I have, over the years, gradually learned my limits. One of them is that, when I have a cold, that vague sense of disassociation with what’s happening means that my writing is probably a lot less coherent than it seems. Thus, I don’t write much when I have a cold. The relevance of this is left as an exercise for the reader.
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