Archives for October, 2004
Here is the best shot I got from the lunar eclipse last night. It’s not a terribly great shot of the eclipse itself (the moon was 3/4 out of the earth’s shadow at this point, with a nice crescent effect) but it was a pretty decent shot by itself. I don’t know why it had [...]
“Go balloons. We need more balloons. All balloons!”
We had Scott’n'Annie over tonight for one last dinner before they move up North. To celebrate, I finally made a cake with the Darth Vader pan our neighbor gave me a few months ago. It was a chocolate layer cake with raspberry sauce. Some Notes: I opted to forgo icing due to A) lack of [...]
edit: Sold!
Last night at Corey’s party, we met an awesome girl named Heather. She is like a freaky combination of Urn and Kat and Annie and I all rolled up in one person. (Or perhaps the four of us are like if she got divided into four distinct persons by a freakish science experiment involving Gamma [...]
I haven’t felt much like blogging lately, but lots has been happening. Annie’s last week of work ended on Friday. Now she can focus on packing for the next week, and continue looking for a job in Washington. My work situation continues to be strange, but I don’t feel like getting into that. Email me [...]
You really have to hand it to Qwest. They’re finding all new ways to take customer service to unheard of depths. I’ve had some horrible service before, I’ve had people hang up on me, I’ve had people be rude to me, I’ve had people lie to me, and I’ve dealt with general incompetence. But what [...]
we* had a party at scott and annie’s house last night and did a bunch of jam comics, which can be seen here. *scott, annie, me, miles, zach, eric, xima, aaron, gwen Edit 10/26/2005: Miles doesn’t use the yurusan domain name anymore, and I don’t think this content is still online.
“I’m not so sure it’s credible to quote leading news organizations about — oh, never mind.” – George W. Bush
This tee-shirt design made me laugh so hard, had I not left my glass across the room, I would have sprayed milk out my nose. Hee-hee. “Afternoon Delight” indeed.
I’m sure you all have heard my rants about Qwest before, so I won’t repeat them. Suffice to say that since I’m moving, and I need my DSL up and running ASAP, I started to get the ball rolling three weeks early. Long story short, it turns out that the problem this time isn’t with [...]
“It’s against the law in the United States to hire people illegally.” – John Kerry
Stop smirking, for the love of god! Do you have any idea how hard it is to take you seriously as you say that you will “honor your commitments” when you’re grinning the whole time? That weasly good-old-boy smirk may play well in the South, but up here it just convinces me that you don’t [...]
It looks like I’m going to be unemployed by December. Nothing is 100% at this point, but my boss is closing down the company, and he says he will keep me on through the end of November if at all possible. Obviously, this means I’m in the market for a job. I’m a highly skilled [...]
This is the geekiest computer peripheral I have ever seen, and it’s one I wanted to see when I was in high school, with all the mix tapes my friends and I were passing back and forth: It’s a tape deck that fits in a 5.25″ drive bay. Wicked.
Whoo! It’s a good link day! Check out But All I Wanted Was A Pizza! – A great flash movie about the dangers of the loss of privacy. (via Angie McKaig) Also be sure to read An Open Letter To A Local Radio Station, from Poundy.
“It was like matter and anti-matter: Mr. Positive and Mr. Negative collided in a flash that left nothing in its wake except a mysterious, 100-minute void in time.” – defective yeti on the 2004 Vice Presidential Debate
I just finished working on KT’s blog design. She sent me a mockup, and it took me pretty much forever to get around to doing it. I kept putting it off because it involved reworking her templates to my new standards, and then updating her CSS would be easier. Well, tonight I sat down and [...]
During the Vice Presidential debate, Dick Cheney said that “They know that if you go, for example, to factcheck.com … you can get the specific details with respect to Halliburton.” The only problem is that factcheck.com actually redirects to GeorgeSoros.com, with a front-page message of “Why We Must Not Re-Elect President Bush.” The website Cheney [...]
I felt alright on Wednesday. Good enough to go out to Thai food with Eric and Jill, even. I remember mentioning to Eric that I thought I might be coming down with something, because the back of my throat was a bit scratchy. At the time, I could still breath easily and taste the delicious [...]
“When I talked about the $87 billion, I made a mistake in how I talk about the war. But the president made a mistake in invading Iraq. Which is worse?” – John Kerry
