(via Cold Fury) I’m not much on much on all those do good/feel good/get healthy type days that get promoted seemingly all the time. I pretty much ignored “Walk at Work Day.” I ignore most of the “raise awareness” days. I actively chain smoke whenever possible during the “Great American Smokeout”. You want me to [...]
You are Wash, the Pilot You can be terse…once in Flight School, you were downright laconic! Beware sharp pieces of wood. Take the Which Firefly guy are you? Quiz at HeavyInk.com
I’m not sure whether anyone has done this before, but you might as well share the anxiety of the moment as I sit here listening to progressively larger hailstones pounding down outside. Sort of on the order of a slow-motion train wreck, I don’t really want to, but I guess I may as well go [...]
For non-regular readers, the Head Rat has become, for all intents and purposes, deaf. She reads lips very well, and whether it is because my voice is low enough that she hears bits of what I say or whether after twenty-five years of being married I simply have nothing original to say or whether she [...]
(Yes, Jr., I’ve been watching Excel Saga) According to my source, this translates roughly as “and we get the hell out”, which is what I would really like to do sometimes. Get together with a bunch of like-minded individuals in Wyoming or Idaho or some such place, form a libertarian government and secede from the [...]
I hate vehicle shopping. I hate haggling. I hate the “car buying experience”. Nothing about it appeals to me. Nothing about it is enjoyable for me (not even the “new car” smell). The only time I ever really enjoyed buying a car was in 1977 when I bought a 1972 Ford Galaxie 500 (my first [...]
Nothing random this week. I’ve been listening to the new Nine Inch Nails album to the exclusion of all else. The Slip has, coincidentally*, ten songs, so here it is: 1. 999,999 2. 1,000,000 3. Letting You 4. Discipline 5. Echoplex 6. Head Down 7. Lights in the Sky 8. Corona Radiata 9. The Four [...]
I’ve said before (although I don’t think it was on this web site) that my job/life is sort of like herding squirrels: 1. I’m never completely successful 2. I’m never completely finished 3. On a good day no one gets run over by a car That said, the past couple of days haven’t been all [...]
I was getting my thoughts together over the weekend to write about drastic increases in food costs vs. increases in gasoline costs. As is usually the case, the subject is covered at Coyote Blog: 1. Before I could get to it2. More eloquently than I could have done it. (you really should be reading Warren [...]
Although not my favorite band, I’ve quite enjoyed Nine Inch Nails over the years. So it is with some relish that I pass on the news that Trent Reznor is giving away (via download) the new NIN album, The Slip. (via Samizdata)
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