One trick-or-treater. Dressed in a sort of I’m-not-really-into-this vague black scalloped thing costume. I guess I’ll have to eat this whole bowl of Nerds and Reeses cups all by myself. Darn.
Monthly Archives: October 2004
It occurs to me that I’ve been shamefully remiss in mentioning Halloween this year, particularly costumes. Mine was not impressive. I just dug out and laundered my old iaido gear, found my practice sword, and went as a samurai. I was mildly worried that it wouldn’t fit, since it’s been a coupla years, but frankly, […]
My buddy Carlota loaned me her tablet PC for a day or two to try it out. James and I had been talking about getting a cheap laptop for conventions–lugging my full machine is a pain in the ass if we’re driving, and impossible if we’re flying–but I hadn’t even considered a tablet PC, because…y’know. […]
I am surprisingly unworried about the Osama video. And I’ll tell you why. We’re too polarized already. The trenches are dug too deep. Sure, there are probably some people–who ought to be bloody well ashamed of themselves–changing their mind on the word of a terrorist. That’s the sort of thing I consider “letting the terrorists […]
In case anybody missed it, Zogby, of the famed Zogby polls, was on the Daily Show last night, and said if he had to bet, he thinks the election will go for Kerry. Bush simply doesn’t have good enough numbers for an incumbent at this point, since the undecideds and new registers tend to break […]
I’m in a lousy mood today. My gums have formed nasty hard raw ridges which have pulled away from the offending tooth (and the ones around it, because hey, why not?) and feel like raw hamburger. I’m in pain. I can’t take any serious drugs because I have to run errands, and y’know, “Do not […]
Okay, about these missing explosives. I don’t know squat about them. I’m not gonna automatically assume that it was some hideous failure by Bush–Bush has enough hideous failures in my book that I don’t feel the need to go looking for new ones. The man’s a goob. Kerry could publically commit necrobeastiality with dead puppies […]
Dude. Dude. Dude. 13,000 years ago! DUDE! http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996588 Dude.
I just woke up from the most bizarre dream… Most of it was this kind of twisted Willy Wonka thing–some guy running this creepy place that was supposed to be paradise for kids and…well…wasn’t. Except in the dream I was a boy (maybe twelve or thirteen) and couldn’t see that, but somewhere else in my […]
James: “Did you get that link about platypus…es…platy…platypus I sent you from work?” Me: “No.” James: “Really? It was about how they have like thirty chromosomes that determine their sex.” Me: “Neat! Where was it?” James (dithering): “Uh…lemmee think…uh…maybe…no…uh…maybe…uh…try…” Me (oblivious as usual): “Look, I’ll just google “platypus sex”…there we go…” *pause* Me: “Man, we […]