Daily Archives: December 7, 2008
Today’s Interesting Conversational Snippet, Presented Largely Context-Free
Posted on December 7, 2008 57 Comments
Me: Are we ready for the zombie apocalypse? Athena: We definitely need more guns.
What I Did This Afternoon
Posted on December 7, 2008 8 Comments
I signed these: Which made me quite happy. Thanks to everyone who is ordering books through Jay & Mary’s this holiday season; it’s nice to be able to help out a local bookstore. It’s also nice to get books to all y’all. I chatted with Jay today about how when people should get their orders […]
Guess the Exit Numbers
Posted on December 7, 2008 62 Comments
The LA Times notes that George Bush is getting a bit of a lame duck bump these days — his approval rating at the moment is 28%, up from a low of 24% — and suggests that our 43rd president’s approval rating may go up even futher in the next six weeks before he heads […]
Don’t Worry, It’s Not You
Posted on December 7, 2008 29 Comments
One semi-amusing thing that happens whenever I kvetch generally about things people are doing out there that annoy me in one way or another (example: here) is that afterward I will get a batch of e-mail from various people, apologizing. They suspect I was talking about them. To which I usually respond, well, no, I […]
Whatever Everyone Else is Saying