Archive for February, 2003
Happy Birthday Amy!
A hearty happy birthday goes out today to Amy, a dear friend and sister in Christ, and a talented painter at MICA whose art, friendship, and faith have been bright and warm rays of sunshine to my otherwise gray and gloomy days. Today is also my “other” birthday; it was eight years ago today that [...]
Real Lincoln?
A few weeks ago, I opened up a carton of Country Hen eggs and found, nestled atop the half-dozen browns, a slip of paper greeting me Happy New Year from the folks at Country Hen. On the reverse side of the paper was a small passage: “President Lincoln, according to his biographer, Carl Sandburg, was [...]
The Americans are Coming!
The Americans are coming, the Americans are coming! The issue with US soldiers fighting Abu Sayyaf terrorists on Philippine soil stems from an article in the Philippine Constitution, which stipulates that no foreign military bases or troops are to be allowed into the country without a mutually agreed treaty to that effect. That’s exactly what [...]
Care and Feeding of…
Everything needs a little care and feeding! Here are your guides to the care and feeding of… Kittens Puppies Hamsters Short-Tailed Opossums Ferrets Iguanas Hackers Passwords Your Platonic Friend Introverts Videotape One-Bit Digital-Analog Converters Irish Flutes
Barthes!
Crisis Century class today consisted of the viewing and discussion of a documentary video about Roland Barthes, the oh-so-readable great-uncle of semiotics and postmodernism. Ah, postmodern philosophy, that ever-inquisitive quest to question every movement that preceded it, to challenge and conquer even the most fundamental perceptions of reality and thought, hence defeating even the very [...]
More Snow Photos
The trip back from work involved no small amount of slipping and sliding, and a freezing wade through knee-deep snow covering the as-of-yet unplowed Front Street near the Shot Tower subway station. But I did get more photos of the snowstorm’s aftermath, and my classmate Rame has more pictures from a trek around Baltimore with [...]
Cool-2B-Carnivorous!
Hey, teenagers, it’s like so Cool 2B Real and stuff, you know? (Especially when you read the fine print and see that this message is brought to you by beef farmers who are subtly telling teens that you can eat lots of meat and still be totally kewl. Look at the Smart Snacks to see [...]
(Per)VersionTracker
VersionTracker: Good OS X software. PerversionTracker: Baaaad OS X software.
Expedition to Penn Station
You remember that part in Superman II, after Clark has lost all his powers but has to trek back on foot across the snow to the Fortress of Solitude so he can reverse the process and fight the three supervillains? That’s sort of what the trip to Penn Station was like this morning. But I [...]
Snowminions’ Doom
My army of twelve windowsill snowminions has utterly melted to nothing: This was taken a day after the Great Snowstorm of February, 2003.