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Flavor vs. Color 2

Nov

28

2007

Having had a bad cold and having blown through my remaining supply of Real (ie. pseudoephedrine-based) NyQuil, when I stopped by the drugstore to pick up another prescription tonight, I decided to pick up some more of the good stuff. Two problems arose with this idea. First, because pseudoephedrine is used in the manufacture of ...

One Down, Two To Go

Nov

28

2007

Broadway stagehands: Followers when it comes to calling strikes (having called theirs about a week into the WGA strike), but let’s hope they’re leaders when it comes to settling them. Now it’s down to the main body of the WGA and the CBS news writers. It’s at least a somewhat hopeful portent, and for the ...

Dear Cold

Nov

26

2007

You could have come anytime last week. You could have come on Thanksgiving, making dinner a bit awkward, but giving me three days of sitting at home on my ass to recover. But when did you decide to come? Sunday night. Yes, Sunday night you started me on a downward slope of dozens of consecutive ...

Normal vs. Strike, Vol. 1

Nov

25

2007

Normally, I’d be moaning and complaining about having to go back to work after a blissfully lazy Thanksgiving break. This year, I’m just thankful I still have a job that I’m not nearly ready to drag myself back to kicking and screaming. Cross your fingers that progress is made tomorrow, my friends.

Spam Subject Line Of The Week

Nov

25

2007

Made it through my web server’s spam filter, so I got it on my crackberry (although it did get caught by my mail program’s spam filter): Vacuum Carrot Elephant Meteor Backpack There’s something eloquent in the utter randomness.

Sarcastic British Geeks = Hilarity 1

Nov

23

2007

My cousin Mark, who enjoys the Halo series very much, sent me the following video, which he said captured his feelings about Halo 3 very well. I’m not a gamer much beyond Tetris and desperately trying to find a Wii (and then finding it at the one point I couldn’t afford it) for the last ...

Oops!

Nov

20

2007

If you thought the incidents where various American companies lost laptops with 300,000 or 400,000 people’s financial information were bad, then be very thankful you don’t live in Britain.

Damn You, Time Warner Cable 1

Nov

20

2007

You and your “system upgrades” that leave my interwebs running at the speed of cold molasses (ie, 400kb/s). Seriously, if I wanted speeds this slow, I’d save myself $25 a month and get DSL. I’d better be able to view four thousand pictures of cats with goofy captions nigh instantaneously when this “upgrade” is finished.

Bowling Notes

Nov

18

2007

From last night’s Office vs. Set Bowl Off: Where Strikes Are A Good Thing. – Bowling is really hard if you’ve injured the foot you have to plant. – If you have injured that foot, bowling becomes a lot easier if you just muscle the ball from off your good foot, even though it may ...

A Light At The End of The Tunnel

Nov

16

2007

Let’s just hope it’s not an oncoming train. Although at this point, I consider the two sides sitting in the same room, staring hatefully across the table at each other for eight hours to be a giant step in the right direction. If they actually to get this shit settled, it’ll be a Christmas miracle.