Archive for February, 2005
Wakey Wakey, Lazy Kitty
Photo taken with a Canon Powershot A400.
Not So Easy Greens
I bought a bottle of Odwalla Superfood “Easy Greens,” just to tide me over between lunch and dinner yesterday. It’s thick and goopy and grainy and green, and the taste is strongly evocative of the ripe, heady waters of Manila Bay at peak Red Tide season. Here are the ingredients on the label: Apple Juice, [...]
With Fr. Nebres
Here’s me with Father Bienvenido Nebres, SJ, president of my alma mater. He was at the Philippine Embassy tonight to promote Gawad Kalinga to the local Fil-Am community, so of course the local Ateneo Alumni Association was all there to greet him. In the background is Albert Del Rosario, Philippine Ambassador to the USA. (In [...]
First Greenlit Fark
My first greenlit submission to Fark: “Philippine government workers’ Valentine’s Day bonus raised to 3,000 pesos ($54). In other news, Philippine government workers get Valentine’s Day bonuses.”
Non-Emergency Response
A bit of hubbub at 21st and P St NW yesterday, with hordes of firetrucks, hazmat teams, policemen, and other emergency response personnel laying down flares and blocking off the intersection. Before I could ask anyone what was going on, however, they started clearing out, and within five minutes the firetrucks were gone and the [...]
Cho_Ree
A brief, annoyed aside. (“Cho_Ree” from Pinoyexchange, I know you read this occasionally, and since your email address is untended, and the PEX thread in which you were attempting to spread nasty rumors about me and my girlfriend has been locked and your posts in it deleted, I’m just going to say it here: I [...]
Oh Two Two Oh Oh Five
Late last month, I realized that this coming May would mark two years since my graduation from MICA. My “artistic” output has, of course, dropped since then, and what good is a Master’s degree in Digital Art if you don’t use it for something? So, to get back in the habit of creating, I committed [...]
NAIA from Above
Just found two lovely photos of Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport (airport code MNL) and environs, seen from high above by Airliners.net contributors: this one looking downward and northeast, encompassing Makati, Taguig, Pasay, and Baclaran; and this one looking towards the south horizon, with Bicutan, Sucat, Alabang, Laguna de Bay, and even bit of Makiling [...]
Budget Lunacy
Ironically, President Bush’s proposed budget allocates more money for spaceships to the moon, but completely eliminates subsidies for passenger rail service. If that passes Congress, I fully expect that by 2010, a ride to Luna Base One will be far cheaper than the Amtrak Regional to New York Penn Station.
Quick Google Check for Weblog Spam
Think of it as checking for lumps: search Google for “phentermine,” “viagra” — or some other common spam word/phrase — along with site:domain.com (replacing “domain.com” with your own website, of course), and you should get a quick slice of possible spam on your weblog which may have slipped through your filters. Kottke.org, for example, has [...]