Month: November 2001
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The Yankees are the Microsoft of the sports world. Discuss.
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Grrrrr. Hypothetical situation: you’re an American salesperson with a girl in London on the line just aching to spend $1800. This potential customer is American herself and wishes the items to be sent to her mother’s house in America. What do you do? Sell her the frickin’ goods, right? Wrong. Apparently some people don’t like…
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Quiz of the Day: the Discovery Health Sensuality Test. Actually this is one of the better online quizzes I’ve taken. The questions were thoughtful and actually made me realize some of my unconscious perceptions. I scored an 80, which means: You are one sensual human being! You are titillated by the sensual stimuli of everyday…
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Tomorrow night at 8:15 on Channel 5: When Dingoes Attack. Oh yes, Snookums and I will be watching. 🙂
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Scene from the Cop ShopFor my Australian visa I need some sort of document proving that I’m not a criminal, so this morning I headed out to the Hammersmith Police Station to request a copy of my record. I opened the door to discover about twelve people already waiting while a single harrassed policeman tried…
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DeCSS (DVD decryption software) has been declared “pure speech” by a California court. Sweet! This software breaks the encryption on a DVD so you can play it on a Linux computer. The Motion Picture Association of America have a vested interest in making sure you can only play discs on approved players, and so they’ve…
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Oh. My. God. Have you guys played around with the Internet Archive Wayback Machine yet? They’ve archived, like, ten billion web pages since 1996, including some gems from the past of yours truly. For instance, there’s my very first personal site ever: Kristine Howard’s Page O’ Wonders. (I was such a nerd freshman year.) You…
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Well, Amelie has finally made it to America, and right off the bat some idiot doesn’t get it. “Why does she lead him on a wild goose chase when she’s clearly crazy about him?” asks the Salon reviewer. That right there, to me, says everything about how profoundly this man misunderstood the film. I don’t…
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Woohoo! My improbable Survivor Pick ‘Em success continues. I successfully predicted that “Mother Africa” would get the boot and was rewarded a whopping 55 points. I’m now ranked 8th out of 22 in our group, and I’m at the 87th percentile overall in the game. Give it up for the girl who can’t even watch…
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Cathleen lists the Top Ten Reasons to Live in London. Unfortunately I have no idea where “Bradley’s” is or what “The Dogs” and “Urban Farms” are. And I’ve been living here for two years! I’m the worst Londoner ever. My own personal list would probably be: Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues Bar (any night that…