February 2008
86 posts
Listening to the Dodgers and Braves on mlb.com - the echoing organ music fills my empty winter shell with hope for spring.
Uh oh, time to polish up my “time I hung out with William F. Buckley, Jr.” anecdote. I am saddened by his passing. He was thoroughly unique.
Thinking I can’t add @leolaporte because he already has 65,535 followers. Does that number seem familiar?
“65535 is a frequently occurring number in the field of computing because it is...”
– 65535 (number)
Caipirinha →
I had one of these on Saturday at a dinner party. I will have more of them in the future. Going shopping for cachaça later today.
My Favorite Liar →
W-O-R-D-Up! You cannot deny the authenticity of the words of a man who wears his underwear outside his pants. Cameo, Word Up, For the Win…
“I’m making a note here:
HUGE SUCCESS.”
– Jonathan Coulton » Still Alive
“Acolyte” rolls off the tongue in a nicer way than “sycophant” or “fanboy”. http://rubyurl.com/2DHO
men who look like old lesbians →
The Brash Programmers at 37signals Will Tell You:... →
Man, I haven’t been off the elliptical thingy for half an hour and I am already feeling it. Exercising for the first time in several years.
Successfully rendering an fbml page for the first time in my latest facebook app calls for 30 seconds of Moby-fueled office-chair-dancing…
“Within white culture, it is agreed upon that if Canada had better weather it...”
– #75 Threatening to Move to Canada « Stuff White People Like
“In 2 years as a Senator, Obama authored 152 bills - Hillary: 20 in 6 years”
– you.presscue
“From the outset, Elmo was always self-obsessed and rather nihilistic. Consider...”
– Jonathan Turley
Your new bicycle is the bicycle with no seat that you land on after sliding down a bannister of razor blades. Not. One. More. Damn. Bicycle.
“The players who are practicing are playing against team managers.”
– The Hoosier Scoop
“According to a study, the 1,500 crack cocaine dealers now eligible to petition...”
– ShoeboxBlog: Newsdroppings
LEGO Universe: 'LEGO Star Wars Multiplied By A... →
“HILLARY CONTAINS HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP”
– Twitter: Hillary Is Mom Jeans
“So what is worse, paying for words or borrowing them from a friend?”
– Stephen Kaus: The Huffington Post
Terminator X speaks with his hands.
“During the last night of his life, a doctor friend came over to perform an...”
– Ten Things You Never Knew about George Washington
“U.S. plans to replace 15 percent of gasoline consumption with crop-based fuels...”
– Bloomberg.com
So we had a deadly, school-bus-sized spy satellite angrily circling the globe and it wasn’t Cheney’s undisclosed hideout? What are the odds?
“Sensual Seduction pays homage to the glory days of the early ’80s as Snoop...”
– Snoop Dogg : News
“…here’s the new 527 ad presently running in Ohio which picks up on...”
– Attack The Strengths
“It’s a clusterfuck! Just a clusterfuck!”
– Clinton’s Texas Ground Game Plunges Into Chaos
is anyone twittering who felt the earthquake in Nevada?
Notable Registrants of the World War I Draft →
back in the day, everybody had awesome handwriting.
my handwriting blows.
Can’t wait to see the national polls in the coming days… This could change the dems’ calculations of “who can beat McCain?” Uh, everybody?
The Curious Myth of Hillary Clinton's Senate... →
A republican senator is caught having sex with a lobbyist and it’s with a woman? Creepier still, her resemblance to the current Mrs. McCain.
“Michelle Obama is proud of America too, but she’s not (a) Republican,...”
– Daily Kos: Sorry Cindy McCain, It’s Time to Take the Gloves Off
“…as the results from Wisconsin indicated, Clinton is being deserted by...”
– Obama campaign insists that Clinton concede - guardian.co.uk
“In August, Sen. Barack Obama had made the argument that, as president, he would...”
– Digg - CIA operation advocated by Obama successfully carried out
“When cops arrived after Somma crashed his car, he was wearing a cocktail dress,...”
– Judge quits after DUI bust - BostonHerald.com
Area Dad Will Only Watch Things In HD - The Onion →
Area Dad Will Only Watch Things In HD
Instapaper →
May I never create another bookmark folder called “To Read”.
How does it take this long for somebody to combine Puffs with the scent of Vicks? Sinusitis sucks, but sucks less when there is Vicks scent.
As instructed by my leader, @merlinmann, studiously downloaded and listened to “How the West was Won” by Led Zep. Heading home for Simpsons.
Stuff White People Like →
Quite possible the best thing on the Internet since lolcats. White people crack me up.
Thinking I may be more entertained by the similarity of the english word “polo” to the spanish word for chicken, “pollo” than anyone else…
A nomination stolen from voters by “superdelegates” will be met with resistance in the streets of Denver, CO. Chicago in ‘68 will look tame.