I’m making some changes to some really old software whose license ran out some time ago. As a result, whenever I want to test my stuff, I need to set my computer’s clock back two years, or the server won’t even start. This has led to some very strange behavior:
When I bring up my browser [...]
The Cockroach Hall of Fame isn’t much to look at it — just a little glass case crammed into a narrow Pest Control shop in a nondescript shopping center in Plano. The case contains dead roaches posed and dressed up in various configurations. There’s Liberochi, and Marilyn Monroach, and H Ross Peroach. Imelda Markoroach has [...]
I’m sitting above the Riverwalk in San Antonio, sipping a Frappucino, watching a small flock of pigeons gathering at my wife’s feet and staring up at her muffin. These are Texas pigeons, which means they’re about two times the size of normal pigeons, and that they’re staunch supporters of George W Bush.
Actually, the easy generalizations [...]
On Sunday we attended what was probably the best sermon I’ve ever heard. It was a church in Frisco, Texas, one of those huge modern ones with indoor-stadium seating and armies of greeters and kiosks outside the sanctuary advertising church services. A friendly place filled with friendly people and no sharp edges.
But the sermon [...]
We rise through the drear and punch through the overcast and suddenly we’re looking down on mountains of heaped clouds, dazzling white in the sunlight. When we bank left, my window fills up with this billowing, Seussian landscape; when we bank right, the view turns a perfect azure blue. I don’t fly enough for this [...]
Transcript of recent UN Security Council meeting, the first attended by the new UN Ambassador from the United States, John Bolton.
Kofi Annan: Our purpose here today is to discuss the plight of third-world countries who continue to struggle under the twin burdens of poverty and famine. As you know, we …
John Bolton: SHUT UP! WHO [...]
From an Amazon.com review of Bright Eyes’ I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning:
Really. I mean, this album just makes me want to take my pants off and shave my wolverine that prowls in the darkness.
Finally, my years of plowing through unhelpful album reviews has borne fruit. Brilliant.
PS: Holy Flying Spaghetti Monster, this album is [...]
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