Oh, right. Like this.
Quoth Chartattack:
On October 13, Swedish indie rock label Dusseldorf Recordings will release La La Love You Pixies!, a mostly Swedish tribute to the beloved band. Most of the bands (even the three American acts on the disc) aren’t going to ring a bell with listeners, but seeing as the album is wholly [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2004
Quick! How can we cash in on the reunion tour?
November 30, 2004 – 6:04 pm
The lawyers must be salivating
November 30, 2004 – 1:39 pm
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/11/30/lava.lamp.death.ap/index.html
Using technical solutions instead of legal ones…
November 29, 2004 – 2:01 pm
From misc.legal.moderated:
…where someone’s phone number was incorrectly listed in a restaurant’s publicity (and the restaurant declined to pay the cost of updating the publicity, telling him to just give callers the correct number with no compensation)), he came up with an answer worded something like “The Department of Health does not allow us to serve [...]
LILEKS Matchbooks
November 27, 2004 – 12:35 pm
Matchbooks
I mention this just in case you find yourself 70 years in the future and the only think Microsoft makes is beer. Or heroin.
Scalia, Scalia, Scalia, Scalia, Saclia
November 27, 2004 – 11:57 am
Some interesting blog entries from his couple of days at UMich:
http://blog.qiken.org/archives/000925.html
http://blog.qiken.org/archives/000929.html
http://michlawblog.blogspot.com/2004/11/dinner-with-nino.html
http://michlawblog.blogspot.com/2004/11/day-2-this-is-not-some-weird-new.html
http://michlawblog.blogspot.com/2004/11/i-didnt-mean-to-make-you-nervous.html
tblCode is nifty. Worship tblCode.
November 26, 2004 – 9:10 pm
Oh. My. God.
http://thedailywtf.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=25850
What are we thankful for?
November 25, 2004 – 12:07 pm
That we’re not French, of course.
One can feel for the French. After all, their decline has not been pretty, with their empire, their power, even their language (once the second tongue of the world’s educated elites) all in rapid retreat. And even worse, with the Anglo-Saxon barbarian in ascent. But to understand is not to [...]
Maybe he should change his name to Randall Alternative-Lifestyle
November 24, 2004 – 2:44 pm
(Context: the Patriots have a player named Randall Gay)
Heh, a friend of mine told me that he went to the NFL pro shop where you can custom make jerseys and tried to put in a Randall Gay jersey (His # and “GAY” on the back) and it won’t let him as it is an inappropriate [...]
What’s the frequency, Peter?
November 24, 2004 – 2:32 pm
And speaking of Jennings, hopefully this signals he’s on the way out. If it doesn’t, it should:
How biased, clueless and out of touch are Dan Rather and Peter Jennings? This much: A new poll finds that young Americans trust Comedy Central’s fake newscaster Jon Stewart more than CBS’s and ABC’s top propagandists.
And while we’re on [...]
Thoughts on Iraq
November 24, 2004 – 1:07 am
This is what the history books will say.
A strong, brave nation sent its army overseas. Out of a keenly-felt sense of responsibility for the people under its care, there came a righteous desire to suppress the insurgents that troubled the peace. That army was the best in the world; professional and well-trained, it [...]
What’s the frequency, Kenneth?
November 23, 2004 – 12:33 pm
Just heard on the radio that Dan Rather will be retiring in March.
Good riddance to bad rubbish. Should have happened years ago.
When can we get rid of Jennings?
Thing which may interest only me
November 22, 2004 – 12:17 pm
Something that was never mentioned (that I recall) in any physics classes I took…
It turns out that Lorentz contraction (though not time dilation) can be predicted without recourse to special relativity. If you do enough horrible math, you can show that Maxwell’s Equations require that hunks o’ matter composed of particles which solely interact [...]
On TV, part 2
November 19, 2004 – 5:30 pm
Damn it, they got me. I’m finally in the demographic.
This is a weeping song
A song in which to weep
While we rock ourselves to sleep
This is a weeping song
But I won’t be weeping long
Nick Cave, Sisters o’ Mercy, etc.
Basically re-runs of late 80s - early 90s ‘120 Minutes’. Cool, nonetheless.
blowjobs in the academy
November 19, 2004 – 3:16 pm
Via Volokh we learn about some of the cutting edge research being done in the humanities:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=blowjob&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&btnG=Search
One could make an antinomian claim to validity on behalf of, say, a blowjob in a tearoom.
One could make a claim to that, I suppose.
If making claims like that was one’s major academic specialty, one might find onesself serving “fries [...]
Explanation for people like “Tim” from “Wing Nuts”
November 19, 2004 – 1:00 pm
Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments
The pi-and-e Shower Stall
November 19, 2004 – 12:43 pm
Jonathan Rees’ house in Arlington has The pi-and-e Shower Stall