Archive for January, 2008
Christine, former webmistress turned internet success story turned photographer extraordinaire, defined blurking in 2003. The word blurking is a mix of the words blog and lurk, and applies to those who do just that. Today… nay, the remainder of the week has been declared an “international playday” whereupon all blurkers are charged with commenting on [ READ MORE ]
I really don’t get the Fox network. They had an unexpected hit on their hands when The Simpsons emerged out of the Tracey Ullman show. That’s still going on, 19 seasons later. They surprised everyone when they won broadcast rights for NFL football in 1993. That’s still going on, 14 years later. They’ve had some [ READ MORE ]
The boat that is Detroit is full of holes. Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick admitted to having an affair with his Chief of Staff, after previously denying it. I wonder if he said “He did not have sexual relations with that woman.” She resigned. He won’t. The city spent $9 million just to find this out. [ READ MORE ]
Points to anyone who can give me either reference. [ READ MORE ]
After mourning the loss of the XBox with my sister, I called the 1-800 number for support. Initially, I got the awesome computer named “Max,” who instructed me to try all manner of things that I had already tried. So I sat and kept saying “yes” and “no” as appropriate, mostly thinking on how fantastic [ READ MORE ]
Pretty much the opposite of the Red Badge of Courage. It just happened to my XBox 360 an hour or so ago… it’s almost 1 year to the day that I got my system. Oddly enough, around the time I bought it, Microsoft realized this to be a problem and extended their warranty from 90 [ READ MORE ]
Tuesday’s American Idol, for those who were watching, was set in beautiful sunny San Diego, with scenes from the July 30th audition. One of the clips in that show (also used as part of the teaser at the end of the Dallas tryout show) had a contestant named Sarah Long, who Randy compared to William [ READ MORE ]
William Hung singing “Circle of Life.” Not recommended for people taking antidepressants, antioxidants, or antifreeze. Actually not recommended for people who have more than 10 functional brain cells. Get Well Soon, Kate. A third bullet. It’s nearly Friday (and I have a job, Smokey, sorry). In fact, it is Friday on most of the planet. [ READ MORE ]
I had a resolution that I didn’t wanna reveal. I had resolved to try to put one post per day up here. I had been hit and miss, but last night was the second night I wilfully declined to blog anything… Friday was the first. The first bullet point below explains all. This is mostly [ READ MORE ]
Since the Titans choked and gave their spot to San Diego two weeks ago, I feel safe in talking about football right now. I live in Chargers country. I am probably 3 miles away from their corporate offices/practice field, and 5 miles away from the Q. This city (the nation’s 8th largest) is full of [ READ MORE ]
