Archive for November, 2004

I try to be a morally responsible consumer

Tuesday, November 16th, 2004

I’ve been remiss in letting you guys know about the awesome Cat and Girl comics that have come out in the past month: Are you a morally responsible consumer? Price is not value. So just what is cool, anyway? And if you were in charge, would people like you?

We moved!

Monday, November 15th, 2004

This is one of those pieces of news that’s not really news, because if you’re reading this you already know it. But yes, I spent a few hours this afternoon wrestling with moving the blog over. I finally did it, after squashing many bugs. If you tried to look at Crazy But Able this afternoon, [...]

Book learnin’

Monday, November 15th, 2004

Peggy read a book recently on living in small spaces, alas. As a result of her book-learnin’, we’ve been carting stuff all around the apartment. The major furniture rearranging is almost done, although I regret not taking “before” pictures so you can all see how different everything is. I’ll take some “after” pictures when the [...]

Can I Buff this out?

Wednesday, November 10th, 2004

I present, for your amusement, stupid ricer tricks. (This is second funniest ricer-related thing I have ever seen. The funniest, of course, is snowtowcar.wmv. Just google the file name, you’ll find it.)

Post-election roundup

Tuesday, November 9th, 2004

Here’s my list of the top four don’t-miss post-election wrap-up posts.

The perils of automatic content editing

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2004

Hey, editors are expensive, right? Why not program computers to edit things for us? Somehow I don’t think that a human editor would have picked that story to run on the Google News front page. (link to the bowels story)

Stop reading this and go vote

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2004

Remember, whoever you vote for can’t just win, they have to win above the margin of weasel. Get out there and exercise your civic duty!

No More Years

Monday, November 1st, 2004

Ten reasons I’m not voting for you, Mr. George W. Bush: 8. When Karl Rove used the remote-control device implanted in your upper back to force you to murder Iraqi babies and American soldiers for oil and/or no reason because Saddam was mean to your dad, plus what about the WMDs you lost after you [...]