Monthly Archives: June 2004
Flood Journal
Posted on June 15, 2004
See this little lake? Well, actually, it’s supposed to be the road, two fields, and my and my neighbors’ lawns. We had a really massive thunderstorm today and as a result all the water has flooded into the road and is attempting to push its way into the tiny little creek just south of my […]
Cheese Haiku = Gmail Accounts
Posted on June 15, 2004
Want a Gmanil account and don’t have one? Between now and noon tomorrow write me a haiku describing your rapturous love of cheese and leave it in the comment thread. The authors of the four that amuse me the most shall be awarded Gmail accounts. Although I should note that at the rate Google is […]
Expectations
Posted on June 15, 2004 2 Comments
“Democrats say the enthusiasm for defeating Bush runs much stronger and deeper than the passion for electing Kerry. The chief reason: The senator from Massachusetts, they say, has not crisply articulated what a Kerry presidency would stand for beyond undoing much of the Bush agenda.” — Doubts linger as Kerry advances, Washington Post, 6/14/04 Jumpin’ […]
Adware Rant
Posted on June 14, 2004
There aren’t too many people in the world who I would be truly happy to see sodomized by an oil drill, but among that group are the people at Alset, whose supremely annoying spyware/adware I spent a reasonable portion of my Sunday afternoon expunging from my computer. The program did something I found to be […]
GMail Stylin’
Posted on June 10, 2004
Thanks to the intercession of a Whatever reader who shall remain nameless so y’all don’t bug her to get you one too, I am now in possession of a GMail account. I didn’t even have to pay whatever the current going price is for a GMail swap (I understand it’s going down fast, since Google […]
A Little Advice to Indie Artists About Their Websites
Posted on June 10, 2004 1 Comment
Once again, no one’s asking me for this advice, but like I care. Fact is, I go out of my way on a regular basis to go out there and find music I’ve never heard before and bring it to the attention of other people, so I feel I’ve got some experience and cred here. […]
Boston in September
Posted on June 9, 2004
I just slapped down the $180 registration fee, so it’s official: I’ll be at Noreascon 4 from the 2nd through the 6th of September. For those Whatever readers who are not hardcore science fiction geeks, Noreascon 4 is this year’s official WorldCon, which is the Mother of all Science Fiction Conventions. I went to last […]
The Punch and Kick Game
Posted on June 9, 2004
Anyone who thinks video game playing leads to sedentary children has never seen Athena play video games. She gets even more jiggy with it when you haul out the EyeToy. The game she’s playing here is Virtua Fighter 4, and of course one may reasonably question the wisdom of letting a five year old play […]
Your Music Selection 6/8/04
Posted on June 8, 2004
I’m kind of in a punkish mood, so “Sobriety” by Snapout (whose album is called Of It — you can figure it out, I’m sure) hits the spot for me: A bit juvenile, sure (it’s a paean to getting wasted), but as long as it’s not my kid getting blasted, I’m fine with that. The […]
The Most Unpopular Burger King Menu Item Ever
Posted on June 8, 2004
From my pal Mykal Burns, who spotted the sign in Pasadena: As Mykal said, “It wouldn’t eat it. It probably tastes like crap.”
Rejection! Again!
Posted on June 7, 2004
My poor, poor YA project. It’s been rejected again. The letter has the by now usually complementary note about my writing skills, followed by the sad conclusion that even so, it’s not for this particular editor. I have no idea when it will be that we will have exhausted all the viable avenues for publication, […]
Reagan
Posted on June 7, 2004
I’m back and catching up on the news, which is mostly about Ronald Reagan having died. I am, perhaps not unexpectedly, curiously unmoved by his passing. It is partly due to a lack of enthusiasm concerning his presidential accomplishments, a rather cynical opinion of the concept of him being the model conservative president (i.e., a […]
Photos From Book Expo
Posted on June 5, 2004
Inasmuch as I’m paying $10 a day for my Internet feed here at the hotel (yes, I’m too lazy to look for a wireless feed to suck off of), I figure I might as well get my money’s worth out of it and post you some pictures from Book Expo 2004. Are you ready? Here […]
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