D and I saw Next last night, and it’s a good thing we didn’t pay for it. (I used two AMC Gold passes I’d received as a thank-you for a special project at work.) The premise is intriguing–a man who…
Year: 2007
“Love Lucy”
My fourth 365 tomorrows story has been published: Love Lucy I’m always fascinated by the forum discussions, wherein I learn just how different my work looks to other people. This story was inspired by LUCYinLA’s video blog on YouTube, the…
I Am Not Stalking John Scalzi
So what if I happened to attend his talk at Google last Friday, and also wandered into his panel at the Festival of Books on Sunday? You can’t prove nothin’. While we were down in Los Angeles, D and I…
Wikipedia Blows My Mind
Okay, I admit I’m not a hardware guy, and I got a B in the only EE class I took in college. Maybe I should have known this tidbit already, and maybe Wikipedia is lying to me (perish the thought!),…
Knights Take Bishop
The Associated Press today published some excerpts from threatening letters sent by the now-arrested, would-be pipe bomber calling himself “the Bishop.” And even if he hadn’t chosen an incredibly lame supervillain name, his diabolical scheme was straight out of Austin…
I Hate All Phone Companies
AT&T and Cingular are only slightly evil. On the other hand, Legacy, which has hijacked several pay phones in Redwood City, should burn in hell. BEWARE. On April 12th, while traveling north to meet D and then go to a…
Things My Wife Has Said in the Past Two Days
“I wonder how hard it would be to kill a nun.” – while watching The Magdalene Sisters “Come on in! We have ants and a spider.” – to friends visiting tonight, one of whom helped us research whether the spider…
Red Cross Fools Wile E. Coyote, Film at 11
From the Interesting Advertising blog: some well-placed photos of a hypothetically devastated downtown San Francisco. And the word of the day, kids, is trompe l’œil.
lolcats
One day, cultural historians will write volumes about the emergence of captioned cat pictures–or “lolcats” as they are known in the vernacular–and deconstruct at length their significance, especially with respect to the gentrification of leet-speak, and muse upon their sublime…