October 30, 2004
Still The Man
Ken Jennings rocks tha house: $2,125,301 as of Friday. I've lost count of how many times he's won (and Johnny Gilbert doesn't even bother announcing it at the start of each show anymore). Woot!
Hallowe'en Tricks and Treats
- Via BoingBoing, cool Hallowe'en music for your MP3 player (or burn a CD, like we did).
- Why I can never live in the South
- New HomestarRunner toon: Halloween Fairstival
Neighborhood Watch
This Hallowe'en, if someone shows up at your door in a suspiciously realistic squirrel costume, be afraid. Be very afraid.
October 29, 2004
Amazon recommends… huh?
Sometimes you have to wonder about the logic involved in Amazon Recommendations.
Fuzzy slippers... with tentacles
I do love my Cthulhu slippers (from Modern Myths). But these are goofy enough that I'm tempted.
October 27, 2004
In a nutshell, why I will vote for John Kerry
Xeni Jardin over at BoingBoing has succinctly summed up my thoughts:
[…] For us, the choice for Kerry involves simple things. Justice, liberty, privacy, transparency. Freedom of speech, thought, and technological expression. A woman's right to choose. Equal access to health care, education, and economic opportunity for all. The rule of law, at home and abroad. Peace. The enduring value of the American Constitution.
These are wonderful things. The Bush administration has proven both inability and unwillingness to protect them. In 2004, Kerry is the one. […]
But go read the whole entry-- it's well worth it. Go now.
October 26, 2004
Not-so-quick addendum
I've been meaning to add some food-related notes to the Clue Fairy's Lord of the Char Siu Bao posting.
Even if you can't get to dim sum, you can still make your own char siu bao.
Or you can read about one kid's devotion to his favorite foodstuff in Char Siu Bao Boy.
Or you can buy these surreal t-shirts that exhort you to Think Outside the Char Siu Bao. (I don't even know what that means.)
Or you can go to the Cheung Chau Bun Festival. Who knew that there was a festival for bao? Sweet bao, not char siu bao, but still! (I can't believe that we went to Hong Kong and we didn't go to the bun festival. We must go back. In May.) Plus, I just like saying "bun festival". Bun festival, bun festival, bun festival.
Overheard at the Lord of the Rings exhibit at the Museum of Science: "That's the sword that Mom wants!"
The week that was.
This protracted silence brought to you by the following:
- a plethora of home projects
- my new job (yay!)
- City of Heroes
- mah jongg night
- community events
- Town Meeting
- a bright yellow S2000
Happily, it seems like we've been getting somewhere with the never-ending list of home improvements/ repairs. The retaining wall is built. The gravel has been shoveled out of the driveway and distributed next to and behind the garage. Chris is fixing the windows. We raked. We swept. We moved shelving. We hauled bricks. I repotted plants. Unfortunately, it doesn't feel like we had a weekend. At least it's (mostly) done.
Just finished my first week at the new job. I keep bumping into former co-workers.
All this has meant precious little time for City of Heroes-- I think I played for less than 4 hours last week.
Speaking of 4 hours of my life that I'll never get back, Town Meeting was its usual mix of the civic-minded, the fervently uninformed, and the just plain whacked. Didn't hear as much this time from the Grandpa Simpson voting bloc, but there's always one or two. At least most of the votes went the way I wanted them to. Ah, the sweet stench of democracy!
Still no S2000. Soon.