Month: February 2001
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I finished Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick yesterday. It was fantastic. I figured I wouldn’t like it, since I hated William Gibson’s Neuromancer so much. Gibson was so deliberately alienating and difficult that I had pretty much given up on hardcore sci-fi for good. PKD was a revelation though. The…
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My dad’s a big fan of Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA team. Apparently Cuban just got suspended for two games for rushing onto the court at the end of a Dallas-Cleveland game. The players got in a fight because the Dallas team was trying to run the score up to 100…
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Ironminds argues that Fred Durst should run for President in 2004. Why? Because “the nookie can be lots of things. Like Jerusalem.” Heh.
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Ooh, I forgot to mention what Snookums got me for Valentine’s Day: Interactive Yoda! It’s seriously one of the coolest toys I’ve ever had in my life. He’s sorta like a Furby, except you don’t have to feed him or anything. He comes with a lightsaber and he frickin’ teaches you to be a Jedi.…
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Damn. What my sister would’ve given for this domain name: lloyddobler.com. I found it while checking out this “pithy” list of great 80’s movies that I found linked on Lake Effect. Actually I watched one of them, The Breakfast Club, just this past Saturday night. (It was part of BBC2’s “I Love 1984” special.) I’m…
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Big congrats and best wishes to Brigita, whose secret has finally been revealed. (Mouseover the cartoon of her and her boy.) Hey B, how’s about an Amazon wishlist so we can buy you stuff?
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Max‘s anecdote last week about students who don’t believe we landed on the moon made me laugh. That is, until I actually read about the ridiculous program Fox aired to support the conspiracy theorists. For those of you trying to debunk such, uh, bunk, Bad Astronomy refutes nearly every argument from the show. In addition,…
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Wow. I can’t believe this. Dale Earnhardt died. I’m not a fan of racing or anything (I think it’s the most boring “sport” I’ve ever seen), but this was one of the guys that even non-fans recognized. He was my uncle’s favorite racer. I hope maybe this forces NASCAR to recognize how dangerous racing is…
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Sarah Ryan, a current Weasel, responds to that Observer story about excessive parietal punishments.
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Yes, I’ve removed the time stamps on my posts. Can you guess why?