December 2008
“I learned in Iraq that the No. 1 reason foreign fighters flocked there to fight...”
– Matthew Alexander, a U.S. senior interrogator
via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (November 30, 2008) - The Price Of Torture
“waterboarding, which critics consider torture.”
– The AP, on waterboarding (via sconover)
Do I have any NYC followers? I’m getting drinks at Old Town Tavern starting around 6 if you want to pop by. 18th & Park
Just ordering a bacon feta burger from Big Nicks made my mouth water and my bowels clench
Beautiful cold rainy NY day. This is why I come back here.
November 2008
iPhone battery full; stomach empty. There’s always something that needs recharging…
making a hadj to the 5th Ave Apple Store; will circle the Great Cube 7 times counterclockwise before descending to buy an iPhone cable
Thanksgiving week is over! Now I can start saying “bah, humbug” alla time.
“Great cities attract ambitious people. You can sense it when you walk around...”
– Paul Graham, Cities and Ambition
Trying to convince Tom Nagel (cousin by marriage) to get a blog, or at least a Facebook account
“While there’s not enough evidence to declare a full-on “trend”...”
– Ghettoization & The Difference Between Politics & Policy (Sirotablog)
“He fell upon her like a savage, wielding his mouth like a machete, and in the...”
– Atlas Shrugged Updated for the Current Financial Crisis (McSweeney’s)
Zumex: A Robot That Loves To Juice: http://tinyurl.com/5ujlhb
Geo. Washington Br. from Edgewater NJ: http://twitpic.com/om5l
Picking up Uncle Ted (not Stevens) at his apt near Columbia (not Colombia). He’s wearing a turkey hat, naturally.
Ted with turkey hat & pie: http://twitpic.com/oijm
Learning to Smoke →
“The Overton window is a concept in political theory, named after its originator,...”
– Overton window - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This explains why I want more actual left-wing kooks on TV (and in Obama’s cabinet) as opposed to the sensible liberal moderates who currently appear fringey when compared with Pat Buchanan.
Just landed in NY F’in C for T-week
Twitter dream: @mikemccaffrey was *at my bedside* having a conversation about Ruby with someone I didn’t know. I dream-awoke and joined in.
“After reaching 9 million views with a 10-episode season financed from viewer...”
– Triple ‘Guild’ play for Microsoft
Felicia Day’s “The Guild” will be distributed on XBox Live
Just got a new Macbook Twotone. Setup was scifi smooth. Only thing Migration Assistant missed was my remapping of Capslock to Control.
After I left it too close to a candle, my old laptop was a MacBook TwoFace.
“In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with...”
– Study published in the Journal of Religion and Society, a US academic journal
via Pharyngula: Faith hurts and The Times (UK) Online
YouTubes still clogged uploading Rio. Everyone’s a critic!
Is it supposed to take 5-1/2 hours to upload a 512 meg video to YouTube?
Sang Duran Duran at The Mint last night. Uploading video to YouTube now. Here’s a 30-second preview clip: http://tinyurl.com/5or4o7
“Not a single, solitary, actual dyed-in-the-wool progressive has, as far as I can...”
– Chris Hayes (The Nation), Left Out
“I know everyone is obsessed with the “team of rivals” idea right...”
– Open Left:: General Jim Jones Likely NSA Pick
“So, the history is clear: President Clinton was lambasted by the news media for...”
– Media Matters - Media Matters: When did experience become a flaw?
At Crissy Field, four greasy Italian tourists riding rented bikes, smoking.
“Sources on Capitol Hill say there was little to no opportunity for Senators...”
– How Joe Lieberman Kept His Post
“I wanted Lieberman out because he can’t be trusted. When Lamont beat him...”
– Commenter Glix, answering the starry-eyed “I don’t know why everyone’s so mad at Lieberman” naïfs as well as the “this is a great Sun Tzu + Machiavelli play by Obama” fanboys.
FiveThirtyEight.com: Politics Done Right: Dear Democrats: If You Must Blame, Blame...
Patent Site Files For Patent; Irony Ensues →
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