Archive for July, 2004
Thursday, July 29th, 2004
The new local Wal*Mart Superstore is the size of a medium-small town. Really, I'm used to the whole big-box store thing, but this is ridiculous; I've taken to referring to it as Wal*Mart Town. Makes me think about Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong from Neal Stephenson's (excellent) Snow ...
Posted in society | No Comments »
Wednesday, July 28th, 2004
The Current Electoral Vote Predictor 2004 is pretty cool; run by a 'Publican, I think, but it seems he's trying to be realistic and fair, as much as that's possible for a 'Publican. Current score: Kerry 291, Bush 237.
Posted in General | No Comments »
Monday, July 26th, 2004
Miss Massachusetts is from MIT (Course 5, class of 2004). How can that be? Isn't that one of the biblical signs of the apocalypse? I am not kidding: Here it is, right from the 'Tute itself: Beauty and the Geek: When Stereotypes Collide
Posted in General | No Comments »
Monday, July 26th, 2004
Like anybody cares: The home page is now updated, and I've also restructured my email so that (a) it all comes through the ron at ozrock dot net address, and (b) it runs through SpamAssassin on the server. Got sick of my arriving mail being 90% spam, so ...
Posted in General | No Comments »
Tuesday, July 20th, 2004
Gave the blog a facelift, and also converted all the "Random Links" from blog-style to Furl. Bear with me. The home page will be updated soon as well. You can also post comments here for now. I don't expect anyone will use that; if nobody does, I'll ...
Posted in General | No Comments »
Monday, July 19th, 2004
Always fun when philosophical tag-lines show up in the mainstream press. Check out the upcoming Newsweek cover where we get the Cartesian I pod, therefore I am.
Posted in General | No Comments »
Wednesday, July 14th, 2004
Michael Hanscom's eclecticism (a fun blog) had a nice triple of slang coming from the soldiers in Iraq that seemed ripe for more widespread use:Salmon Day: You spend all day swimming upstream just to get fucked and die.Adminisphere: The 'powers that be' above your immediate superior.Blamestorming Session: The process of ...
Posted in General | No Comments »
Tuesday, July 13th, 2004
Finally went wireless on the laptop. I'm sitting in Panera Bread, using their nice free Wi-Fi access. Very cool. Very the-future-is-now.
Posted in General | No Comments »
Wednesday, July 7th, 2004
The New Republic's Closing of the Presidential Mind is a nice little piece on the anti-knowledge, anti-intellectualism that dominates the Shrub administration.
Posted in General | No Comments »
Sunday, July 4th, 2004
The Tard Blog lives at the excellent WayBack Machine. I thought I'd lost it. If you've never read it, give it a look. It's hilarious.
Posted in General | No Comments »
