Year 2005

I’m “Hip”. I’m “With It”.

Microsoft, in an attempt to help all those parents out there troubled by their leet-speekin’ kids, now offers a “helpful” primer on just how to understand your otherwise unintelligible progeny. They offer such valuable advice as “Rules of grammar are…

Egads, Zounds And All That Rubbish!

Apologies for the postless Monday – I myself spent most of it in bed or in a half-conscious daze, as apparently some form of alien lifeform crawled into my sinus cavities and expired some time late Sunday night. I woke…

And Back On Again

Then, on Thursday, Lileks moved himself back into my good graces again. *grin* While his entire Bleat is worth reading (it concerns this snarky Newsweek piece bemoaning how American mothers feel a pressure to be “Supermom”), there’s a particular bit…

Off Again

Then, in the space of a single Bleat, Lileks leaped to a conclusion that I take a bit of issue with. Also from last Wednesday’s Bleat: Oh: I mentioned yesterday that I wrote a column on Intelligent Design. Basic point:…

On Again

If you don’t read James Lileks regularly, you don’t know what you’re missing. Lileks is a columnist from Minnesota and, while he publishes a semi-weekly column and has authored a couple of hilarious books, he’s also a bit of a…

Initial Migration Complete

I’ve moved the core of the site over to WordPress 1.5, so at the very least all posts should be working now. You’ll probably notice that most of the images won’t work for a while and things like polls I…

Fun Spam Of The Day

Well, at least they’re trying to entertain me while spamming my inbox: Subject: Greetings, white man! 🙂 From: Calliope M. Satanism < [email address deleted]> To: [me] Message: Salut! [spam link clipped] Before honor is humility. Nabad gelyo [another spam…

Irony Overload

Has the world gone mad? Stockard Channing continues to be the voice of AIG Auto Insurance ads. Auto insurance. Am I the only one who sees a problem here?