Archive for November, 2005
Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
As we slide from the religion-optional holiday of Thanksgiving (see The holiday of home and hearth, again) into December, the darkness of Christian-centric culture descends. Historically, we've been able to deal with this by avoidance. If you don't Xmas shop, stick to eating out at Indian and Thai ...
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Monday, November 28th, 2005
The top 10 search strings bringing people to this blog, in order:
1. lion king
2. the lion king
3. lion king 2
4. antichrist
5. the lion king 2
6. alien abduction
7. dvf files
8. e-meter
9. lion king death
10. emeter
OK, so 5 of the top 10 (and 4 of the top 5) are for some variant ...
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Sunday, November 27th, 2005
Some asshole hit my car in a parking lot in the last day or two (can't narrow it down to an exactly time and place) and put a pretty healthy dent in the right rear quarterpanel. No note or anything. By the shape and location, I'm guessing a ...
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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005
It's the regular Thanksgiving post. Because it's like actually posting something, only easier.
Hey, if you haven't seen it, it's new to you. Or something. Anyway:
As an atheist who doesn’t celebrate either Xmas or any of the mini-pseudo-Xmases, I still do embrace Thanksgiving. It's the American holiday of ...
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005
Following up on an earlier post (The “liberal war on Christmas” bullshit starts again): Salon has a nice piece by Michelle Goldberg ("How the secular humanist grinch didn't steal Christmas") on the mythical "liberal war on Christmas" and the history of this particular piece of witch-hunting. Definitely worth a ...
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Monday, November 21st, 2005
Although they've gotten a little stale as a magic act, I used to really love Penn and Teller. (I saw them live several years back, and it was the best live magic show I've ever seen -- puzzling, funny, and obnoxious in the best way.) And I've enjoyed ...
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Sunday, November 20th, 2005
The Panda's Thumb has long been a favorite of mine. And they've got a fun one up with Breaking news: Darwin appears in holy frying pan!
Check it out yourself; but here's a little taste:
...Scientists around the world are puzzled about the possible mechanism that might have resulted in the ...
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Saturday, November 19th, 2005
Oz played his first really legitimate game of chess with me this morning. We'd played a small handful of times before, but he was really just working out where the pieces went and how they moved and what the general point was. Today, he actually played -- kept ...
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Thursday, November 17th, 2005
As Oz attends kindergarten at the local public school, they say The Pledge every morning -- in "Morning Assembly" when they have one, and otherwise in classrooms, led by a student reciting it over the intercom system from the Principal's office.
My wife and I never say The Pledge. ...
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2005
From BoingBoing.
I don't really have anything much to say about it. But I had to post it.
Sometimes, things are better in translation.
I want one of these.
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