Oct 31 2006
On the 28th of October, my girlfriend, Allison, and I celebrated our fourth year together (see writeups for our third and second; the first predates this blog). What began sixth months ago as the vague intentions of going to see something on Broadway eventually morphed into a weekend-long celebration that involved a…
Oct 28 2006
The Worst Person in the World by Keith OlbermannYou likely either hate Keith Olbermann or you love him. If you’re a regular watcher of Fox News Channel, you probably fall in the former category. If you’re part of the…
Oct 27 2006
The “4th Anniversary tomorrow” edition
Today sees me driving to WIU to see Allison; tomorrow we come back here and drive to Chicago for dinner and a showing of Wicked; Sunday sees us driving back to WIU to see a showing of Rent (performance, not cinema); Monday sees me driving back here.…
Oct 26 2006
From 1988 to 1992, I lived in Silver City, New Mexico, a withered shell of a mining town that now housed a major university (Western New Mexico University, to be precise). From my school’s playground, I could look up and see the old silver mine that gave the town its…
Oct 26 2006
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill BrysonFirst, let me say for the record that I firmly believe Bill Bryson can do no wrong. I have read each of his books, and each has been pure…
Oct 25 2006
I’d been vaguely aware of the existence of this word, but never heard it really used or pronounced (thus I thought it was something like “cog no sen tee” instead of “kon yuh shen tee”). Seeing as how…
Oct 24 2006
Snow by Orhan PamukPossible minor spoilers below!
I was blissfully unaware of Orhan Pamuk’s existence until he won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature. Being shallow and weak-willed, I went out and picked up Snow, his latest novel, the next…
Oct 24 2006
The long-awaited and little anticipated 2.0 release of the Firefox web browsers has hit the FTP servers today. I won’t bother to post a changelog or anything, but needless to say there have been improvements under the hood (Javascript 1.7 support, for instance), but certainly not enough. There have also…
Oct 24 2006
Could there be a more awkward way to evangelize than to use “Chuck Norris Facts”? This is by Norris himself, mind you.
Alleged Chuck Norris Fact: “Chuck Norris’ tears can cure cancer. Too bad he never cries. Ever.”
There was a man whose tears could cure cancer or any other disease, including the…