From the monthly archives:

July 2007

Marvin_martian

I have Google Alerts set up for keywords and phrases related to my new company, since it’s part of my job, as The Tick would put it, to monitor the culture. I just came across a web site that I cannot figure out. It appears to have been translated from English to another language and then back again. Here’s a choice passage:

Do they make bold to state "impeach"? One someone’s airtight legal lawsuit is another’s "remain out the Bushes."
Saturday 28 July 2007 @ 09:22:35 pm
YOU’LL NEVER DISCOVERY anyone as impartial, disinterested, judicious, and concerned only with the eudaemonia of the American people as a party chop laying into a politician from a challenger party. Thus the suit for the impeachment of President George W. Bush has turned organically from the very textile of the world. It’s not that Democrats are moved by defeat with Bush and his party’s electoral profit run–snake pit, the Dems profoundly rue that they’ve been took to this! It’s that Bush’s prevarications and offenses of the Fundamental law are so egregious, so without case in point in American history, that we must trigger the gravest of constitutional chemical mechanisms.
I would like to thank this group of Venusians or Uzbek spammers or whoever they are for introducing me to the work "eudaemonia," which I have now learned means well-being. Not to be confused with "youdamania," which is what overcomes the more oafish members of a golf tournament’s audience whenever someone hits a drive.

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And Dave Wakeling!

07.28.2007

Forgive me, I’ve been drinking with librarians, but I’d like to amend my earlier post where I put down a list of musicians who I was happy to have met while I worked in the music industry. Let me please add Dave Wakeling of The English Beat to the list. He came to visit us [...]

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Roy's got a bit of a shoe thing.

07.28.2007

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Eat my kilowatts

07.26.2007

I get the Prius. I’m good with the Prius. I am in favor of the Prius and other hybrid vehicles. Don’t talk to me about the price differential and how the extra money you pay for one will never be made back in gas cost. Despite the practical merits of that argument, it just doesn’t [...]

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Sounds good in principle

07.25.2007

The latest issue of Wired has an extensive how-to section, with tips on everything from mastering Guitar Hero to taking better photos. I’m intrigued by their suggestion that if I am able to get to the back of my car stereo, I may be able to attach an RCA cable and plug my iPod into [...]

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Tiny headlines

07.24.2007

I’m now carrying two mobile phones around with me; one from work and my own. Those of you who know about my obsession with phones and other shiny objects might think I’d enjoy this, but it’s actually kind of annoying, and might just push me over the man bag threshold. One of them is on [...]

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Greetings from a sentient being

07.23.2007

Jerry sent me this cheery little greeting this morning, but the thing I enjoyed most about it was the message that accompanied it in the email: A loved one, friend, admirer, or other computer user has sent you a card from someecards.com! That pretty much covers the full spectrum of anyone who could have possibly [...]

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Tomato bar!

07.23.2007

Abe and Kathleen got married Saturday night in a lovely ceremony that included the best first dance I’ve ever seen. It was a full-on hip hop extravaganza complete with rump shaking, set to a tune that everyone younger than me no doubt has playing on their iPhone at this very moment. We asked Abe how [...]

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Roy is ordinarily a very dignified cat.

07.22.2007

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