Monthly Archives: March 2006

Did you know that pay phones now cost fifty cents? When the hell did that happen? No one consulted me on this price hike. Mr. Technology left his cellphone at home today, and the one time I didn’t have it in my pocket we found ourselves urgently needing to make a call. First off, there […]

links for 2006-03-21 Google Idol… unearthing the world’s talent… Well, I’d use “talent” rather loosely in this case. These are the mental cases that couldn’t cut it on “American Idol.” Come to think of it, most of these folks couldn’t cut it on 2 for 1 night at the local karaoke bar. BigDog: The Most […]

I’ve been a net nerd for many years now. I remember using archie and veronica to search the Gopher protocol, dialing up to the local BBS to enter an internet gateway, and my initial excitement at seeing a graphic interface for an internet browser. Unlike a lot of nerds I don’t spend a lot of […]

links for 2006-03-20 The Bush administration offically lost the argument on the war in Iraq. How do I know this? Because yesterday Rumsfield affirmed Goodwins Law, thus proving himself the loser in the argument. The world’s best books – via Times Online I’ll save you the trouble: John Grisham isn’t on it. Sorry about that. […]

Do you pay any attention to the weight loss plan du jour? No carbs, no fat, less sugar, eliminate all trans fats, eat a stinky cabbage soup every meal, shake for breakfast shake for lunch and a sensible dinner, six inch sub only six grams of fat, high protein low starch, eat plenty of dairy, […]

links for 2006-03-19 Cost of Iraq war could surpass $1 trillion- via MSNBC.com Damn…I sure hope we kept the receipt. Geoffrey Chaucer Hath A Blog “Oh newfanglenesse! Y have learned the privitees of the manye abbreviaciouns ywritten on the internette. OMG: “oh mine ++DOMINUS++”. ROFL: “rollinge on the floore laughinge”. IRL: “in reale lyfe.” WTF: […]

links for 2006-03-18 Urban Legends Reference Pages: Politics (Jamie Raskin) “People place their hand on the Bible and swear to uphold the Constitution; they don’t put their hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.” That’s IN YO FACE Senator Jacobs!!! IN YO FACE!!! I’m glad that actually happened. Do Not Press “Snakes […]

No bloggery until tomorrow. I’m takin’ the day off.

links for 2006-03-17 Robot Dance-via Youtube via Cimmera I wish breakin’ would come back…mostly because I can’t do the goofy-ass dances popular today, but in the 80’s I could backspin like a top. I yearn, yearn I tell you, to see the next “Breakin” sequel. “Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo” just wasn’t enough. Celebrity phone calls […]

I had originally tagged a movie trailer to go out with today’s link dump, but I think it deserves its own explanatory post. Waaaaay back in August of last year the screenwriter of “War of the Worlds,” Josh Freidman, posted an entry titled “Snakes on a motherfucking plane” on his very funny blog. In that […]