Archive for April, 2003
Saturday, April 26th, 2003
Romania: Climbing Caraiman
“Here, add the vinegar, it is better.”
I wasn’t quite sure how adding vinegar to my breakfast of cow intestine, sour cream, and goat milk soup was going to improve it. Then again, I figured that if I was going to trust this man to lead me up Caraiman, a mountain in the Carpathians in central [...]
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Monday, April 21st, 2003
Cough syrup, on the rocks.
I used to have really weird neighbors. The downstairs neighbor (cum landlord) ran an adult foster care home out of the basement flat. I’m almost sure it was legal. Anyway, his (senile) clients would sometimes let themselves into our flat via the back porch. It took us weeks to figure out how the bread was [...]
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Saturday, April 19th, 2003
Opposition to the Patriot Act
The misnamed “Patriot Act” (The full name is “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001“, which is a mouthful of doublespeak if I’ve heard one) was rushed through Congress while our nation spent months milling around and tying miniature American flags to their SUVs. [...]
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2003
Jesus would use his damn turn signal
Many people have tried to convince me that religion, particularly the Christian sects, have a net positive impact on people’s lives. They cite all the charitable works people perform that are, for better or worse, motivated by religion. I hold that these same works could be motivated solely by a respect and love for mankind, [...]
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2003
His Holiness wants YOU!
The pope poster is one I made when I was in college. George still had a copy when I asked him about it.
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2003
row harder, you swine!
Galleys are in for the first few chapters of the new book. It looks fantastic!
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Monday, April 14th, 2003
getting here from there
My web server keeps a log of all sorts of details about web traffic. The most interesting is how people find my site. Some of my favorites:
penis euphemisms
My favorite is ‘wee wicked willie the wonder weasel’.
ricky jay cisco
Ricky Jay was a professional stage musician who could throw playing cards into watermelons in the balconies. Cisco [...]
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Friday, April 11th, 2003
in the box
I recently was told that my old book, Inside WebObjects: Discovering WebObjects for HTML or some other such ungainly title, is included in the box with the new version of WebObjects and has been ordered up for another press run. Apple didn’t tell me, of course; Nobody tells me anything. I didn’t find out [...]
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Friday, April 11th, 2003
Back in Iraq
Christopher Albritton, former AP and New York Daily News reporter, flew to Turkey and evaded border guards to get into Iraq. He’s now in and around Kirkuk, a city the occupying peshmergas have declared off limits to journalists. He has some fantastic pictures and interviews with Iraqi Kurds on his web site which he updates [...]
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Saturday, April 5th, 2003
bad poetry and good citizenship
Poetry: n; (1) any literary form that is not prose.
I know that
your passion cannot be constrained by
automatic word wrap.
But
It isn’t poetry
simply because the lines don’t reach
the end of the page.
It was the bad war poetry that finally did it. I know it’s verboten to mock Americans’ first experience with grief in a generation. And the [...]
