Category: Miscellany

  • De Confusibus

    What was it Augustine said?. Please Lord, slashdot me… but not yet!

  • Dude, I'm getting a Dell?

    I have a temporary need (two, three months) for a PC for a project I’m working on. (There are five Macs in my house and one PC but it’s in the basement and runs Windows 98, ugh.) It’s an old Pentium Pro, so I don’t even know if I should install XP on it (probably…

  • Johnny won't be able to make the reunion

    Keeping in touch with the old gang. If there’s one thing the Internet’s good for, it’s finding your old friend and compadres.

  • Where's the National Debt Clock when you need it?

    Political Parrhesia: The National Debt Marches Upward. Just passing this Political Parrhesia item along:The federal government’s fiscal year ended on Monday, September 30. So, it is appropriate to take a look at how much the national debt rose in the past year. $100 billion? You wish. $200 billion? Sorry. [Bite Media]

  • Come, read Uncle John's blog

    News for Dead Heads. Three new items (two serious announcements and one forwarded piece of satire) up at Uncle John’s Blog. (Archive of today’s latest post at Other Ones to Play Oakland 12/5 and 12/6.)

  • I'm ready for my closeup, Mr. DeMille

    Taking it on the chin. Kitty Bukkake watches a porn flick while listening to NPR and writes a wickedly accurate, down-to-earth blog entry entitled A Bukkake Home Companion (Contains frank descriptions of pornography, bodily fluids, and Garrison Keiller.) This continues a trend of great writing about a formerly unmentionable body fluid, such as Paul Ford’s…