Category: Miscellany

As my to-do list grows (book project, consulting projects, conference coming up, taxes to do soon, clients deals to do, and more) I’ve had one of those two or three day periods of just trying to do the same things over and over. First there was a recalcitrant zip file that was showing up corrupted…

Oliver Willis objectively supports rounding up Bon Jovi fans.

I know this war can’t be about control of oil, and we’re supposed to look past Dick Cheney’s revolving-door history from first gulf war to Halliburton, where his contacts in the gulf came in somewhat handy, back into the government in time fo rthe next gulf war and hey, look, if it isn’t ol’ Halliburton…

CNN is maintaining a page listing all available information about U.S. casualties in the ongoing Iraq war. [via Virginia Postrel]

Another e-mail tip leads to this graffito response to a “United We Stand” decal.

Someone sent me a link to Iraq Body Count, which estimates only 16 civilian deaths so far.

I thought I knew Victoria’s secret. I always figured Victoria’s secret was that she was a guy. According to What is Victoria’s Secret? the answer is bulimia.

After Gil Scott-Heron. Or, as my friend Non likes to call him, Lung Scott-Egret (or the variant B and I like: Lung Pict-Egret). From the UC Berkeley J-School’s intellectual property weblog comes Revolution is not an AOL keyword.

Graceful spaz. something something

Just to annoy weblogs.com. I’m posting again in under five minutes, specifically to generate the error message.

You know you\’re listening to Ween when…. You type “steel cut dwarfs” onto your grocery shopping list.

This was in my inbox this morning: Subject: in Erbil for an hour I’m back to Erbil city since half an hour ago to check out on the house, we are now in a small village in the mountains that is one hour and half far from Erbil.. its a big crowd in a house…

Late last year I had been encouraging Delshad to start a blog, but he has been on the move most of the time since then. Yesterday he wrote from Erbil: Dear Xian, I’m now Erbil and most possibly move to some village or town far from here… I really don’t like to do that nor…

Here’s the message I got from Delshad on Tuesday, sent to all his online friends: Dear friends, This is just a very short note to tell you that I’m now leaving back to Erbil where then I will go with the family to some village – seems the war is already starting and the family…

Mailed a birthday card, bought some champagne, returned a video, snapped some pictures. The plum trees have turned a lurid crimson maroon. The recent rain has polished the lens of the sky to its east-bay finest. You wouldn’t believe how many pictures of clouds I’ve taken over the years.

…then what is your mouth? It’s great to have my new camera, though I’ll need to get a larger flashcard soon (or stop using the silly movie feature). Treated myself to lunch today at Mama’s Royal Café, the site of one of my first date’s with B.

Hawks to the left of me, perverts to the right Here I am, stuck in the middle with you

I realize I’m falling for a deliberate imitative “fallacy” when Nick Denton contrasts the Iraq/antisemitism storyline with one about drunken Irishmen. It reminds me of an EU chart in a late ’80s copy of the Economist I was reading for free on one of my first flights from New York to San Francisco. There were…

top of myfuckinggame these guysin d—best guys 9 yrs comatosediabeticjunkie   get some fuckinkid you can pushit aroundpay him more moneyget somebody topush his craparound I’ll go where I can withpeople like me.