I stole this one from Kim: In case anybody doesn’t have enough ways to insult me: Oxygen.com has a baby name insult generator. Enter your name, then click on “Drawbacks.” This will also tell you if your name has some sort of lewd or lascivious meaning in another language. Although there’s a couple I just ...

I am studying for a quiz in Italian (no, the thing with Hot Italian Chick did not pan out, and yes, I am still taking Italian, since I decided to take it before there ever was a Hot Italian Chick, goddamn it), and I am typing everything I have to know for said quiz out ...

Ever have one of those moments that encapsulates what’s going on in your life, and it pisses you off way more than it should, simply because it’s so representative? I had one of those tonight when I went by Blockbuster to drop something off for a friend and pick up Jaws for a paper I ...

I am very proud of my dad for standing. My dad was up for the weekend, and he had gotten us tickets to the Northwestern–Ohio State game on saturday night. The tickets, since he’s not a season ticket holder, were waaaaaaaay up in the upper deck. I decided to try something different: I decided to ...

“Here’s my beard, ain’t it weird? Don’t be skeerd, it’s just a beard.” —George Carlin My dad grew a beard. This is causing me…not really consternation. More confusion. My dad has not had facial hair since before I was born. Of course, then, he had the dippy sideburns-attatched-to-mustache-with-no-beard thing that was popular in the 70’s. ...

Dan Savage tells Seattle why they should get off their asses and get themselves some rapid transit. He’s wrong about the El always being faster than driving, though. It’s certainly faster than driving during rush hour, but it still takes 45 minutes to drive to O’Hare, and an hour and a half on the El. ...

If you’re in Chicagoland or anywhere else that is serviced by the moronic denziens of Ameritech, and things are fucked up with getting your line installed, here’s a tip: Just tell them you’re having trouble with the line. A bit of an explanation: I’m in a 3 bedroom apartment with 4 people. I’m in one ...

I’ve tried to improve the temporary fix by moving it to a little javascript window. I’m trying to figure out how to make it control the main window, but until then, it’s just gonna open stuff in a 3rd window, but then all the archives will go to the same window, so it won’t be ...

Stan Jones, the Libertarian candidate for Senate in Montana, accidentally turned himself blue when an attempt to avoid Y2K antibiotic shortages by drinking a silver solution backfired just slightly. They sure grow ’em nuts in Montana. Thanks to Coop, who cropped the picture for CNN and dutifully gave me the link.