Category Archives: the ‘hood / tjicisphere

The first step is admitting you have a problem

At the Taqueria on Sunday night: TJIC: Dude, can you loan me a ten? I had cash in my pocket earlier today, but… DFF: But…? TJIC: I spent it on burritos! And not just that one Sunday night, either!

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Damn.

I’ve forgotten all the outrageously bloggable horrible things that were said over burritos.

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Andrew Breitbart has a sense of humor

Oh, Cambridge. Really?

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We seem to have come full circle

Last night I went to a World Music show featuring David Daniell, Mountains and Tim Hecker. I’ve seen Hecker before, when he was touring to promote his album Mirages, and this time he played (“played” – laptop plus a stack … Continue reading

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The Slow and the Serious 3: New England Drift

Damn – venturing out into the snow for burritos today was nerve-wracking fun.

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A shout out

Happy Birthday to the (still young!) Chimp Domesticator!

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Damn you, Weather!

That is all.

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Techniques they don’t teach you in Parenting 101, but should

Out on the street in front of my apartment, there is a woman yelling “THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU!” at two rambunctious children.

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Oh, yuck.

87% humidity tonight.

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Happy Birthday, Chuck!

Chuck is 33, and above water.

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Great things are on the horizon

Wow. Good news for Archenemy Field Correspondent Stumpy McGimp*, for sure. When this tech is good enough for bone therapy, he’ll be the happiest (still super-clumsy) jock-again in the world. * not to be confused with also-gimpy Archenemy Couch Correspondent

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Duck!

Very cool: The now-very-shiny ISS will be flying over the inner TJICisphere tonight and tomorrow night. (via seablogger)

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Burrito break

Maintenance to continue a bit later.

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Hazzard County, MA

(Mass Ave, just outside Harvard, facing Porter) Officer looks askance at DFF, while DFF snaps pic after pic, chuckling. DFF: Sorry – when I am ever going to see something this absurd again? OFFICER: … OFFICER: Around here? You never … Continue reading

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Didit didit didit didit didit didit didit da DAH

Are all supermarkets awash in 70s prog rock, or just the one near me? I’d kind of hoped we’d be leaving all that behind us – far behind.

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More humid than humid

I want more dry air, fucker.

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Name dropping

So, we’ve seen a couple of so I was talking to Lileks on the phone the other day -type remarks over at dispatches from TJICistan… which aren’t quite as bad as the so I was talking to Lileks – yes, … Continue reading

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We call it TIJC

Fun with Google Language Tools: Today I speak about a programmatore anarcho-capitalist to you, from blog a a lot interesting, and of a lawyer of one other company, in an other cittá, in an other federal state, all in the … Continue reading

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Things’re looking up

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“For the children” ™

TJIC has discussed the recent accident involving two teenagers. To summarize: students are drunk students are driving 70-80 mph students are driving on a narrow residential street where speed limit is probably 30 mph, maybe less students crash, and a … Continue reading

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