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- I got off the train this morning and headed over to the post office to mail out my Christmas cards. As I suspected, the post office was packed. So I'm waiting in line and someone farts. Really, really loud. It was one of those farts that sounded like it hurt, a really long one. |
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- He's Crafty--and He's Just My Type We put up our Christmas decorations on Sunday, and inspired by our friends Cindy and Darrel, we made a new "lighted Christmas orb" addition to the outdoor decor. At Cindy and Darrel's house on Friday, we spotted these gorgeous huge lit orbs in the trees around the neighborhood. C & D had actually gone to a party a few weekends before and learned how to make these things, and they taught us. |
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- Meryl Yourish doesn't find Allah Pundit very funny. Indeed, she finds his parody of anti-Semitism offensive. Frankly, as a general rule, if your entire blog... |
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fdhd (Dec 09 2003 13:58 GMT) - it must be collection day some time this week, where people throw out their unwanted possessions and the packrats and furniture restorers come out of woodwork in droves like rats in a plague. our back lane is full of rusty washing machines (to the fucktards who dumped theirs right against our garage door, thanks a bunch you thoughtful pricks!), broken shelves, unidentifiable rubbish and treasure! someone (apparently someone called "stuart", actually) dumped a perfectly good macintosh se nearby, and so of course i nabbed it... |
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sneferia (Dec 09 2003 13:58 GMT) - kudos to my friend mixer girl morgan, who tolerated the monkey's untimely visit to los angeles and come away relatively unscathed. corner: morgan, on mixing albums this weekend involves a client's xmas party and chellie's birthday get together, which should nicely fill my social requirements for the next ten to twelve years... |
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- The Runners World (US) Marathoning section is fantastic- full of tips, article, expert advice. Its going to take me a loooong time to work my way through this lot. Apologies if this sounds like a shameless plug but the print... |
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- I just realized the self-referentiality of my previous entry. The discovery of a trivial piece of information on a social network led me to write an entry about the impact of the knowledge carried within social networks on interpersonal relationships, with my experience as the catalyst. I myself have added to the "persistent, available, and malleable" information about my life and my relationships -- however abstractly -- using social software (Movable Type). The act of documenting this phenomenon has increased my participation in it. |
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- I've spent a good deal of time discussing social networks with people far more knowledgeable than me. I use social networks for a variety of purposes (especially LinkedIn for business networking, with Ryze, Friendster, Tribe, and other social networking services trailing far behind). Until, however, an experience today in which I discovered new information on a social network, I failed to appreciate how personal an effect social networks (as currently instantiated by social networking services) could have. Some years ago, going through a difficult personal situation, I by chance found another participant's accounts of the situation in a public place. I understood their motivation as well as their right to do so, but this understanding didn't make it any easier for me to read what they had written. |
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- Nintendo has today announced that Mario has become the first ever videogame character to be honored with a figure at the Hollywood Wax Museum. The museum features wax figures of around 180 stars including the likes of Tom Hanks, Michael Jordan,... (2 related) |
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- BirthdaysRandal Christensen Meetings/ Events10:00 AM Food Closet Volunteers 6:30 PM Bell Choir Rehearsal 7:00 PM Church Council 8:00 PM NA |
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- BirthdaysErna Meyer Doris Osterli Meetings/ Events10:30 AM AA 7:00 PM Junior and Senior High Youth Group 7:00 PM Outreach Team 7:00 PM Senior High Youth Group |
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- From Belgrade's weekly NIN magazine: Responding to news that Slobodan Milosevic and other nationalist politicians jailed for war crimes will be running in Serbia's Dec. 28 parliamentary elections, Petar Ignja argues that Serbia's election laws must be changed to avoid such absurd situations. |
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- From Belgrade's weekly NIN magazine: Responding to news that Slobodan Milosevic and other nationalist politicians jailed for war crimes will be running in Serbia's Dec. 28 parliamentary elections, Petar Ignja argues that Serbia's election laws must be changed to avoid such absurd situations. |
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- "In the phrases 'anti-incumbency factor' - invented by ruling parties when they lose elections as a ready excuse - and 'losing and winning in these states in a cyclical manner' lies hidden a fast deterioration of Indian polity. It is symptomatic of the Indian electorate's loss of faith not only in the so-called leaders, but in the system itself. In protest electorates have even voted for eunuchs against party candidates, a real cultural rebuff in Indian tradition." |
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- I'm very disappointed in my readers. There is a battle currently raging between the forces of good and evil --... |
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- Joey points to an article in the National Post with the title: "Canadians too patriotic for sensitive Americans." I'll let Joey do the talking: You read the headline right: Canadians too patriotic for sensitive Americans. |
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- KaZaa and other spyware programs. KaZaa is a file sharing program like Napster. It is "free", however it loads huge amounts of spyware and ads on your computer. It is also deliberately difficult to deinstall. However PestPatrol explains how to do it. |
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- In Harlem this morning, Vice President Al Gore endorsed Howard Dean for President. A full transcript and statement will be available soon; here are a few quotes for those who missed the TV or radio broadcast. Excerpts from Al Gore's... |
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- The first practice exam I ever wrote was an organizational shambles. I remember this one student I had who would turn in these homework assignments. He'd start problem 10 and then turn the page about 45 degrees and work on problem 13 and suddenly stop and pick that up on another page.... his homeworks were a nightmare to grade, random pieces of answers to questions strewn about in what looked like apparently random directions (curiously, they were often correct, or close to it, but it was a pain to grade). I wrote on his paper: |
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- My uncle Virgil is a good storyteller. Most of my family can spin a pretty good yarn, but Virgil is... |
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- In Marche-en-Famenne in de Ardennen zijn dinsdag rond het middaguur twee F-16-straaljagers van de Belgische Luchtmacht neergestort, aldus het ANP:... |
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- In Marche-en-Famenne in de Ardennen zijn dinsdag rond het middaguur twee F-16-straaljagers van de Belgische Luchtmacht neergestort, aldus het ANP:... |
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- The December 6th broadcast of the Inside Mac Radio show, which featured Mark Dwight, CEO of Timbuk2, and Kevin Ames, a professional digital photographer, is now available as an MP3 download... |
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- Un exhibicionista le mostró sus partes a agentes de policía que deambulaban por unos bosques a la espera de atrapar algún degeneradito. Resultó ser un juez. |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - ZDNet Dec 9 2003 8:21AM ET... |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - Computer Buyer Dec 9 2003 8:12AM ET... |
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Eagles Win! (Dec 09 2003 13:54 GMT) - Who thought it would be by that much (Philly.com)? A great way to start my now becoming weekly round-up :)... |
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