May 30, 2004
Your Very Own Acronym
Let's do a little free association. I am fairly sure that when you, dear reader, think of me, you immediately think "Smart, Arty, Masculine, Useful, Enjoyable, Luxurious--did I say Arty? One arty really isn't enough. But a Dirty kind of Arty."
That just goes to show you how accurate the Magic Name Acronym Generator really is. What does it say about you?
Hands of Time
Time for writer's cramp.
May 28, 2004
Arrrrrr!!!!
This is one of those little "who would you be?" quizamajigs. I usually don't care for them but this one was kinda cool because I was bored and I sometimes actually say, "Arrrrrr!" And sometimes people say "Arrrrrr!" to me for some unknown reason, you know who you are.
May 27, 2004
Attention Achievers!
When The Big Lebowski was released in 1998, it was greeted with tepid reviews, unlike the Cohen Brothers' previous movie, universally praised Fargo. It did modest business, but seemed destined to fade from memory like another clever movie the Brothers had made a few years before.
Now, six years later, the film is an endlessly quoted classic, inspriing dances, endless fanboy praise, and the inevitable convention. The Dude abides.
May 21, 2004
FundRace.org
While offline for several days after being listed in a recent NY Times article (reg: memphilter/memphilter), FundRace.org is back online. The site offers controversially intimate information (names, addresses, professions, amounts) about political contributions by zip code or city.
You may also visit the sister site, GoogleRace, which ranks the canidates based on keyword searches, "for example, 'metrosexual' or 'rich wife' or 'war'. "
May 20, 2004
17 year itch
The cicadas of brood X are emerging in DC.
May 14, 2004
"It's a [Keg] Wrap"
Finally, some useful technology for the everydayman on the possible horizon. A Case Western Reserve University graduate student has recently been granted $20k by the NCII to pursue a thermal blanket for kegs, potentially eliminating those messy tubs leaking beer sludge all over your porch, causing slippery surfaces not so congruous with gassed guests.
May 13, 2004
Listen.
Many years ago, in my home town, an old man lost a court case involving a dispute over a few acres of property. After the verdict was read, he turned to his attorney and said "I'm going to kill you." Two days later, he walked into the attorney's office and shot him in the chest with a shotgun. When he heard about the incident, my grandfather told me that his grandfather had told him "An young man will threaten you, but an old man will kill you."
"Why is that?" I asked.
"Because the old man has nothing to lose," he said.
Years later, after my grandfather had passed away, my grandmother and I had a long talk in which she dispensed with the convenient myths that all families must invent and told me some truths she thought I needed to know. It was an old woman's truth--the truth of someone who has nothing to lose.
Kurt Vonnegut tells an old man's truth.
T.V. Wasteland
Now that the comatose sitcom has finally reached its long overdue death with the ending of Frasier and Friends, we are left with a horrible prime-time vacuum consisting of nothing but painfully inane reality T.V. Tripe like Extreme Makeover, Fear Factor, The Apprentice, and an evil host of others make the very act of turning on the T.V. a loathsome task. It's days like these that I find myself really missing Doug Henning, as do many others. All I can say now is thank god for Netflix and Deadwood. They may just save my T.V. watching summer.
May 06, 2004
Moore vs. Bush: the match-up
Someone, please, please, program up a little Flash game akin to Celebrity Boxing that pits Michael Moore vs G.W. Bush in the boxing ring.
The time is soooo RIPE (NY Times reg req), plus just imagine the scene (close as I could find). It would get millions of hits.
This is COOL!!!
Welcome to Mars You can drive around on a Rover or just explore the terrain
May 04, 2004
BananaGuard
I get the feeling this device is ripe for severe misuse, destined to be found on dirty floors of nightclubs nationwide.
May 03, 2004
Buckle up! we're blasting off to Geeksville
How bad can a commercial spot really be? In the vein of the Costanza McDLT commercial samuelad made available on the Sideboard, here's a series of Atari 800 ads that boggle the mind.
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