Not very surprising news: people buy and sell drugs, even when they are in mental hospitals. Everyone knows you can get drugs in prison, but in a hospital, where there’s less security? Gee, you think? In athletics, there is a history of cheating and doping, and we’re not over it yet by a long shot. [...]
And the category is “Things you don’t want to find while remodeling your home.“
This is not a new story, but it’s a good take on it: people giving their kids bad, bad names. My favorite is Darvon, which you like to think is an accidental misspelling of “Devon” or something. Who knows though. And it’s long been a joke that Toyota has been stealing the names of black [...]
Sometimes, looking at expensive things makes me dream. Sometimes it makes me just feel dirty. Like, I know this won’t make me happy, and I can’t afford it anyway, and what are you thinking? Want want want. And the economists and politicians keep shouting. Lie lie lie. Fight fight fight. Covering their asses, wanting, waiting, [...]
Peter: You know, PHP is quite forgiving. Aidan: Yes. To the extent of being morally loose.
Oooh, my first hate-mail. Get some integrity? Why am I in need of integrity? Because I note that the WSJ Editorial page, a noted haunt of the ultra-right ‘starve-the-beast’ economics gurus, has begun to note that Dubya is plundering this country for the benefit of his closest access-capitalist allies? Look, bucko, he’s not even a [...]
Loners need a club like the anarchist club needs a president. I am annoyed when people whine about getting Canadian coins instead of US coins but I do like the idea that people might actually just send me some random cash. Oh please world, send me your Euros so that I can insult the French [...]
I mentioned these earlier. Quirkyalones, aka “single people who think they need some label,” now have a quiz and a movement and a book with promotional tour and shirt. Megan came back from the NEBA conference with the shirt and a pamphlet. The whole thing has pissed her off beyond words. It’s like the periodic [...]
I just finished reading Mystic River. The novel has better detail about Boston, and greater depth of character for the detective character, than the movie. Lehane is mostly known as a genre writer (mystery) but this is a step up– sure, there’s a murder, and a mystery, but the characterization moves it into literary territory. [...]
I’ve been out of town at the Gartner ITExpo. In Orlando. Yes, I saw Mickey. Megan spent Saturday at a book expo. Reading list now contains the new Get Your War On, a sociology book called “Sex in the South,” and a style guide for metrosexuals. My impressions: Orlando is a vast wasteland. I don’t [...]