Archive for March, 2003
Friday, March 28th, 2003
the folks who brought you the Scopes-Monkey trial
It occured to me — what if Bush’s presidency is all a plot by the ACLU to drive up their membership? It’s working; I’ve been told their membership has doubled since he took office. I can’t imagine what people are so afraid of.
I encourage everyone to fork over twenty bucks and give these people your [...]
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Friday, March 28th, 2003
adventures in writerland
Just got this from my editor, regarding a section we’ve been working on:
Here’s my suggestion: We just IGNORE all that and stick the merge thing here anyway. Unless it fits in Chapter 14, there’s no other place for it, and I’m TIRED OF BEING A PERFECTIONIST ANYWAY. I’m just going to throw all this nitypicky [...]
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2003
disease
The International Classification of Disease is the worldwide standard for defining disease of all kinds. It’s now going on its tenth edition, and the new version includes a new category, _Classification of Death and Injury Resulting from Terrorism_.
*ICD-10 U01.0 - Terrorism involving explosion of marine weapons*
* Depth-charge
* Marine mine
* Mine NOS, at sea or in [...]
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2003
rainy day
Birdsong, 5:48am.
Eyes closed, drowsily aware of the staccato dripdripDRIPdrip of one of those delightful rainy San Francisco mornings. Grey from ocean to hills. Not like yesterday. Yesterday, sunny and sixties, clear and bright. Perfect top-down weather. Not like today. Drowsy dissolving into warm flannel. dripDRIPdripdrip.
5:50am, mourning doves laughing at me. Cold feet and cold fingers, [...]
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2003
she’s so hot
Helen Thomas, UPI’s Chief Correspondent for the White House for 30 years (she quit when UPI sold itself to a Unification Church affiliate) and “Dean of the White House Press Bureau” for nearly sixty, was wearing a beret at Ari Fleischer’s press conference.
She’s covered eight presidencies. Fleischer’s fear is apparent: any time he says, [...]
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Monday, March 10th, 2003
summer girlfriend sublet
I’m going on a trip, so I’ve posted ads on craigslist to sublet my flat and sell my car. So I decided to put one up to sublet my (patient, tolerant) girlfriend jenniferroolf and see what kind of responses I would get:
Girlfriend summer sublet
I’m travelling for the next few months; I’ve sold my car on [...]
