Daily Archives: January 21, 2009
Open Letter to the Scraggly-Bearded Dude in the Concert Tee Who Stood in Front of Me in the Line for the Airplane Yesterday
Posted on January 21, 2009 52 Comments
Dude: Reeking of skunkweed and hasty lavatory wiping is no way to go through life. I’m just saying. I pity the poor bastard who had to sit next to you for three and a half hours. It must have been like having a coach seat in Willie Nelson’s outhouse. So, seriously, dude: Before you subject […]
Holy Crap, Frederik Pohl Has a Blog
Posted on January 21, 2009 63 Comments
You go there now. That’s an order. And if you don’t know who Frederik Pohl is, please launch yourself into a wood chipper. That is all.
Part of the Family
Posted on January 21, 2009 54 Comments
An interesting article in the New York Times about the diversity of the families to which the First Family belongs: The family that produced Barack and Michelle Obama is black and white and Asian, Christian, Muslim and Jewish. They speak English; Indonesian; French; Cantonese; German; Hebrew; African languages including Swahili, Luo and Igbo; and even […]
Quick Pop-in
Posted on January 21, 2009 32 Comments
More coming later in the day when I have some real work done, but first: Notes! * First, hey, I made it home. And it’s good to be here. For three days, after which I travel again. Sigh. * After a week of working off my Acer netbook, my desktop monitor looks like a stadium […]
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