What if Eve tempted the serpent? (2003/09/07)
One of the things that people often wrestle with in Christian theology is the question of where, exactly, evil came from. Why was there anyone around to tempt Eve? What purpose had this evil thing in being?
[read more...]Lies, and the lying liars who lie about the people who tell them. (2003/09/04)
I heard Al Franken on the radio last night. I didn’t take notes, but here’s roughly what he said that caught my attention:
[read more...]Would you buy a used car from this man? (2003/09/02)
So, one of the weird things about getting a shitload of junk faxes is that you never actually read them all. Who has time? I have seven hundred pages of these things. Mostly, I don’t see them when I have a lot of spare time and I’m looking for something to do; I see them when I’m looking for a specific fax on my fax machine, and all that’s there is a stack of unwanted shit, helpfully shoveled by our junker friends. (“friends” is perhaps a euphemism here.)
[read more...]Who's Kiki, anyway? (2003/09/01)
I dunno. Kiki was this one chick. Back when there was a Mandy’s, we used to go there late at night to have coffee. Sometimes, Kiki would be there. It was a great little place. We saw Joel Hodgson there a couple of times. Once, when someone played a ballad on the jukebox, a couple of people did the “holding lighters in the air” thing for a while. Everyone there was always your friend, even if you had no idea who she was.
[read more...]Collect all 15! (2003/08/31)
While at a local Pizza Hut, I spotted a vending machine selling stickers. One of the types of stickers on offer was symbols of the Zodiac. A bright sticker encouraged me to buy as many as I could – “Collect all 15!” Did they have duplicates? Three extra symbols not included in the normal Zodiac? Was the sticker lying?
[read more...]Hello, Little Swimmer. (2003/08/30)
There is a living creature, which will be like my friend Dave, and my friend Jordan, but it will not be either of them. This is strange to me. They call it “Little Swimmer”; it is expected to be a girl. The name is a placeholder; I’m sure they’ll think of a better name in the next couple of months. But, for now, it’s strangely appropriate.
[read more...]Hilarious stupidity (2003/08/24)
This is one of the funniest messages I’ve ever received. It was sent anonymously, by “sentinel79@hushmail.com”.
[read more...]Giant eagles threaten Xinjiang province (2003/08/22)
Dissociated Press, August 22, 2007
[read more...]Maybe he's not certified with Google technologies. (2003/08/19)
One of the best parts about being deposed is watching the deposition decay into a farce. A circus, even.
[read more...]Advance! (2003/08/18)
I got a check today. This check is interesting because it’s the first half of the advance on my forthcoming book, The Cranky User. It’s weird; it’s one thing to have signed a contract, and it’s another thing to have written a rough draft of a book, but it’s another thing entirely to actually get paid. It’s not that I don’t get paid for writing the rest of the time; indeed, it’s about all I get paid for recently. However, this is the advance on my first actual book. Not just a couple thousand words; an entire book.
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