Archive for February, 2006
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
A bunch of 3rd, 4th, and 5th-graders at Oz's school put on Dr. Seuss' The Lorax as a part of Read Across America. (And how can I complain -- The Lorax is, of course, anti-corporate-rape treasure-the-earth propaganda -- which I like). But the principal decided they should bring ...
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Sunday, February 26th, 2006
I'm not a big "Golden Age of TV" guy in general -- there was even more crap then, and I'll take Seinfeld over Lucy any day. But Barney Fife still makes me laugh like almost no other TV character. (I even named the cat I had through the ...
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Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
I'd been limping along with a crappy little FM transmitter in the car for playing the MP3 pod through the car stereo, feeling envious of those with cassette decks who could use the cassette adaptor input. But I finally replaced it with the cool all-in-one plug-in-to-lighter-socket combination FM transmitter ...
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Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
15,000 atheists in London rioted after a blank sheet of paper was found on a cartoonist's desk. (From Father Dan.)
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Sunday, February 19th, 2006
Dan Dennett has a newish book on religion out: Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon. I haven't gotten a chance to read it yet, but I know the Dennett corpus and line on religion pretty well. He's more or less like Richard Dawkins on these matters, ...
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Saturday, February 18th, 2006
Changed the template. I like it better, but maybe I was just tired of the old one. Anyway, there might be bumps and glitches as I fine-tune it.
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2006
The plot thickens: Hunter Shot by Cheney Has Heart Attack Due to Pellet Lodged in His Heart. Well, f-ing "oops".
I want to remind you that you first heard about The Cheney gambit right here. Because it's back on the table, baby.
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2006
Hey, BoingBoing picked up the fabulous Philosophers Finger Puppets (Boing Boing: Famous people fingerpuppets). As I've mentioned here (The family business), Oz has the Plato, Kant, Hegel, & Nietzsche set, and Plato and Nietzsche in particular often get significant roles in his puppet theatre productions. (I think he ...
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Monday, February 13th, 2006
So, Cheney "accidentally" shoots a lawyer while hunting, and nobody says a word about it for 24 hours. (How Did Dick Cheney Break the No.1 Rule of Hunting?) Imagine my shock. A guy who lies outright about WMDs so that he can go to war and kill ...
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Sunday, February 12th, 2006
Northeast Socked by Snowstorm; NYC Sets Record, but here in the Albany area, we get off with a couple of inches. It's uncanny how often the snow belt storms veer off before we get hit, and leave us with only glancing blows. Go 100 miles in a couple ...
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