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Monthly Archives: July 2005
Homesteadin’ time
July 29, 2005 – 1:40 pm
Even a blind squirrel can find a nut now and then
July 28, 2005 – 6:31 pm
I despise Ed Markey from the bottom of my heart, but I have to give him credit for this one-liner about the big energy bill that’ll be passed tomorrow:
Right now Adam Smith is spinning in his grave so fast that he would qualify for a subsidy in this bill as an energy source…
A phaser set to “love”
July 22, 2005 – 1:34 pm
If you happen to, say, really really hate Star Trek, definately don’t follow this link, it’ll just irritate you. Now, you, on the other hand, you might think this is funny.
On the forced redistribution of wealth
July 20, 2005 – 5:30 pm
Damn!
After 25 years of President Saleh’s rule, Yemen is among the most impoverished in the world, illiteracy is near 50%, and unemployment is very high, while the country’s elites have become richer and more powerful. They are so powerful, the ruling party this week closed down a lawful political oppositon party by taking over [...]
Hello, Potter (again)
July 16, 2005 – 2:54 pm
An enigmatic recluse with a mysterious past and even stranger loyalties, you are an intensely serious presence.
Living well is the best revenge*
July 14, 2005 – 8:18 pm
Fatwa? What fatwa?
Take that, terrorists!
* of course, crushing your enemies, seeing them driven before you, and hearing the lamentation of their women isn’t too bad, either.
Hello, Potter…
July 14, 2005 – 7:25 pm
WOW. Last year’s best selling book was The Da Vinci Code. I’m not sure how many copies it sold, but the new Harry Potter book is expected to outsell it in one day.
UPDATE: delivered this morning by a guy wearing (er, among other things) mailman shorts and driving around in a sedan, in an Amazon [...]
More idiotic Arlington exceptionalism
July 14, 2005 – 10:06 am
Over on LFA someone posted this howler:
I wonder whether the “population growth” parameters wasn’t what kept Arlington from making the initial screen. The population has declined from a high of 53,500 in 1970 down to the current 43,000-something. So that may have given a false impression of non-growth.
Yeah. How could anyone see [...]
Etheric trailer trash?
July 11, 2005 – 4:20 pm
Link via TJIC:
R/S: What other “props” do you use in ritual?
TC: I use an athame, a ritual knife that was crafted by a blacksmith I know. It fits my hand perfectly. It’s sharp because my intention and my will have to be sharp. I also have a blade made out of an old fossil which [...]
Heh, heh, heh….
July 11, 2005 – 1:29 pm
I’m ordering a bunch of these things. When I moved into a new apartment once I spent an hour digging through boxes trying to find an annoying beep (cordless phone). It was maddening!
Beautiful!
Monkey See Monkey Do
July 8, 2005 – 6:12 pm
My friends are jumping off bridges shooting smack between their toes taking silly online tests, so:
You are dependable, popular, and observant.
Deep and thoughtful, you are prone to moodiness.
In fact, your emotions tend to influence everything you do.
You are unique, creative, and expressive.
You don’t mind waving your freak flag every once and a while.
And lucky for [...]
I got a fever
July 5, 2005 – 4:42 pm
And the only prescription is… More cowbell! Amazing color!
This absolutely outstanding eye candy is from b. – who has a feel for color that I probably never will.
A lot of the faces are a little too big-eyed and manga-y for me, but I love the loose sketchy “hey, close enough” take on the typical continental [...]
Awesome ephemera
July 4, 2005 – 5:44 pm
This collector of old cameras in Central MA also develops any old film he discovers: how cool is that, I ask you? Damn cool.
(No idea if this is him, it’s just one of the photos. Because I’m a jerk, I’ve cropped and photoshopped these, but his site features the photos exactly as they were developed.)
This [...]
The unstoppable Mike Mignola
July 4, 2005 – 4:50 pm
According to Horrorchannel.com, Mike Mignola’s The Amazing Screw-On Head is slated to manifest as an animated feature on the SciFi channel. If they do this right, I’ll watch it, and maybe even forgive them.
I’d have a better image but I’m too lazy to find my copy and scan something.
(via Drawn)
Because I’m a follower…
July 1, 2005 – 3:34 pm
… I take stupid quizes (via tjicistan).
You scored as Classical Liberal. You are a classical liberal. You are sceptical about much of the historicity of the Bible, and the most important thing Jesus has done is to set us a good moral example that we are to follow. Doctrines like the trinity and the incarnation [...]
The lifestyle he’s accustomed to
July 1, 2005 – 3:25 pm
Don’t blame me – I wasn’t even there!
(child indentity-protection: ON, in anticipation of potential parental unhappiness with photograph-posting)
Smoking (a little) crack in Scotland
July 1, 2005 – 2:56 pm
As much as I enjoy Charlie Stross’ books (and I both enjoy reading them immensely, and reading them early immensely), I keep stubbing my toes on all of the little nuggets of wrongness strewn throughout them. The earlier parts of his new Accelerando feature a number of different remarks about politics and economics that makes [...]