Month: February 2002
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Hooray! The international movers called and our stuff went through customs without any taxes or duty being assessed. Yes, that would be the ten boxes of stuff we shipped from London nearly three months ago. I can’t even remember what’s in there! Moving halfway around the world is a loooong process, folks.
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Remember the teenager who crashed a plane into a Florida building? His suicide note is now online. This looks pretty damning. I still think he could’ve made it all up, but I’m gonna go ahead and rescind most of the benefit of the doubt I gave him back in January.
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What a fabulous evening! The Snook and I went to see Bugs Bunny on Broadway at the Sydney Opera House. The show (conceived by American conductor George Daugherty) features various Warner Brothers cartoons projected onto a large screen while a live symphony orchestra plays the famous music below. It was so cool! They actually started…
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There’s an interesting argument taking place in my college newspaper‘s “Viewpoint” section this week. It’s about Johnny Walker Lindh, the American Taliban fighter. This guy is calling for leniency in Lindh’s sentencing. Whereas this guy not only thinks Lindh should be executed, he thinks his father should be executed as well. (I almost thought the…
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Hmmm. Slate’s got a good article about the Dvorak keyboard layout. You know, the one that puts the keys we actually use the most nearer to our fingers? (That’s the opposite of the QWERTY keyboard, which spreads everything out.) I actually tried to learn Dvorak once back in high school. I had already surpassed my…
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The discussion we were having about Rosie O’Donnell’s sexuality and the importance of celebrities “coming out” seems to have moved from Tara D‘s site to Matt‘s. Feel free to jump in.
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Another victory! Oh, we didn’t win the Trivia tonight (again). But I did manage to win two of the “free jug of beer” competitions. The first involved identifying a filmmaker, which I correctly deduced was Quentin Tarantino before twenty other people. The second was called “heads or tails”, where you have to stand and put…
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Hooray! I just got an e-mail from a theater company in Sydney who want me to help them out with a show. It’s non-paid, of course, but at least it’s a reason to get out of the house. I called the Producer back and I’m gonna go see a read-through next week. The show is…
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You know, sometimes when you go to the gym mad, you just come out madder. Tonight’s list of complaints: The ladies’ locker room has a fat mirror in it. You women know what I’m talking about. The kind that makes you look bulgy in all the wrong places when you look in it. It’s right…
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More proof that I need to get a job: I just spent two hours reading all of this season’s Friends scripts. Pathetic.