In trying to avoid our friendly neighborhood bullys (a.k.a. Police) recently, I found myself stepping through the looking glass. I simply walked around to the back of one building that I have passed many times. But behind there, it was a whole different city, so it seemed. Two or three Continue Reading
News: Microsoft: Stop leaking bug code! Microsoft really needs to bite my ass. They can start complaining about people releasing information about how to hack into their products as soon as they release products that are not the most bug riddled things on earth. If it weren’t for their dominant Continue Reading
Given the sense of stress and fear over the last few days, the quotes below have been sticking in my mind. Consider these comments: I’m very much afraid that I might be the next victim because innocent people are being killed because they’re in the way of the situation. – Continue Reading
U.S. Inquiry Is Under Way on Online Music Business
Hey… I was ahead of the curve, by what… 12 hours? I feel special. Or at least, that’s the term my doctor uses to describe me.
You fucking wimps. (These particular morons live in Stratton, Ohio, but I speak to every person who lets shit like this happen.) The reader’s digest version: Stratton, OH requires all people going door-to-door to get a permit from the town hall. To do so they must give their names and Continue Reading
I know I have commented enthusiastically about the RIAA before, and their ignorant, self-destructive, monopolistic efforts to control music. But you gotta give it to them. If yur gonna be an ass, you might as well be the biggest ass. They’re joining everyone and their grandmother in trying to tack Continue Reading
Blogger is weblogs for dummies. Right? So why am I doing more handcodeing now than I have in years? All the little markups and links in posts. Tweaking the templates so they work with blogger. learning PHP to add the commenting system. I started doing web pages over 7 years Continue Reading
< weiny whineing > Are you pondering what I’m pondering? Signs. I’ve been working on a couple projects that involve very old pictures of various towns. It’s caused my to take closer looks around me now, especially when I’m out taking pictures. And in the last hundred years city landscapes Continue Reading
I refuse to be so trendy as to have a list of blogs I like running down the side of this page. It’s none of you’re damn business what I read. Unless I feel the need to subject you to it of course. However, as I’ve shown before, I am Continue Reading
I was walking through Georgetown today after leaving the flea market, looking for a Chinese place to eat. I passed this… guy. I had to look twice because my mind just didn’t process him the first time. He had to be in his late 40s/early 50s. He had close cropped Continue Reading
Just rain already, damnit
Even with all my bitching about people overreacting, I notice I’ve gotten a bit jumpy. It used to be when I hear loud noises out in the city I just assumed some numbnuts smashed their car up. But I’ve caught myself straining to listen to every crash and boom in Continue Reading
“It would be easy to poisen your corn flakes, but astronomically difficult to poisen all the cornflakes in the entire country.” Moron. You would cause much more terror and problems by not infecting the entire batch. Terrorism would involve contaminating only a few selected sites at random locations across the Continue Reading
< nostalgia > I miss. I miss sitting on the trunk of a car as dusk rolls over, with nothing better to do than sit there talking. I misss the sound of crickets outside my window as I fall asleep (not the one damn cricket in DC who has choosen Continue Reading
George Bush is a twinkie. I can’t think of a better word. I tried watching his speech this time (don’t call it a press conference). But I can only stand so much rhetoric and campaigning. (Managed to get in everything from Palestinian statehood to the Ballistic Missile Ban. And I Continue Reading
…and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid. So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive. – Audre Lorde, A Litany for Survival
I was just stepping out of the shower when I heard the bombing began. This is going to be one of those evnts filed away under “I remember where I was when…”. Causse I don’t believe this is going to be as simple as it has been. Are things going Continue Reading
This boy wants to kill you. Or so I’m told, by the talking heads. He really didn’t look too imposing shivering on the sidewalk, way too early in the morning to be radical. I’m not sure how many people that showed up have even finished puberty yet. They carried drums Continue Reading
Yup. I can see Dave Thomas gettin sued soon, by Microsoft. You don’t point out that the Emperor has no clothes.