Archive for February, 2005

Yeah, it’s snowing again

February 28th, 2005

More snow outside. This winter started off light and easy, warm well into December. Then it decided to make up for lost time, and it has been crapulent for the past couple months. Bleh. Meanwhile, the Post Cards from Holland auction has closed, the auction held by Yatsze’s moms group, a support group of moms [...]


RIP Raskin

February 27th, 2005

Jef Raskin, 61. UI Pioneer, father of the Macintosh interface.


Heh

February 25th, 2005

The Anglican Church makes the wrong decision, but it’s easy to see why. “Thursday’s statement, signed by 38 primates, or bishops who head national churches in the Anglican Communion,…” Well, when you have monkeys running the show, it’s no wonder things are silly.


I used to like West Wing

February 23rd, 2005

But it was just on, and while it’s not really any different – at least not significantly so – I can’t watch it. I just can’t. I think it’s mostly because I used to think that the majority of Americans were good people who thought essentially the same things I did, at a deep, important [...]


RIP Gonzo

February 21st, 2005

Hunter S Thompson, suicide at 65. Dang.


Fucking trackback spam

February 17th, 2005

Goddamned online poker, texas hold’em sites. Fuck them. They’ve been leaving trackback spam instead of regular comments, and I if I ever ran across the guy responsible for it, I’d fucking deck him. So trackbacks have been officially turned off.


testing wpblacklist again

February 12th, 2005

Spam Karma turned out to be a dud. Going back to WPBlacklist, and I just want to test that it’s set up correctly.


How to turn eight inches into three inches

February 11th, 2005

Of course it involves the white stuff. Yeah, I’m talking about snow. Snowed again last night, and you knew it was going to be a nightmare, and it was. Big, fat, wet flakes falling fast and thick, with an ambient temperature of 32 degrees. If it had been 20 degrees, we’d have a lot of [...]


This is what I’m talking about

February 7th, 2005

Hunger for Dictatorship is an article by Scott McConnell in the American Conservative, and puts it well, what drives me crazy about Shrub. It really is creeping fascism, what’s going on, and even conservatives are saying it.


Nice, friendly weekend

February 6th, 2005

It has been a good weekend of hanging out with friends. Yesterday, we loaded the family into the Forester and trundled out to Wistah to visit with Ian, Amy, little William and even more miniscule Matthew. William may take issue with being called “little”, but I proved over and over how easy it was to [...]