Month: August 2004
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Where did the computer go? *drool* I want one so bad it hurts.
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Holy crap. Another reason to be glad we left England: a study of air quality in the UK has determined that breathing the air around Hammersmith – which is, oh, where we lived and worked for two years – is equivalent to smoking 27 cigarettes a day. No wonder I didn’t develop hayfever in London……
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High culture, low culture…Last night Amy stopped over and we headed to Gleebooks for a reading by Lynn Truss. Truss is the author of Eats Shoots & Leaves, a manifesto for those of us driven mad by bad punctuation. She was an entertaining speaker who kept the crowd laughing with slides of real, badly-written signs.…
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This one’s for Max: Bea Arthur for President! Apparently Ms. Arthur got pulled up at Logan Airport for having a penknife in her bag and then proceeded to make a huge scene about how “terrorists” must have put it there. Go Bea!
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Rebels and RevelsLast night the Snook and I attended the massive 50th birthday celebration of his Auntie Linda. It was held about an hour south of Sydney at a cafe overlooking the coast. The invitations she sent out weeks before declared 1954 as “the year of the rebel” and instructed the guests to “come dressed…
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Sixty of the world’s greatest scientists have declared Bladerunner the best science fiction film ever. And then they didn’t even have the decency to list Philip K. Dick as their favorite author? Stupid scientists.
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Olympic Gold Medals Per Capita. Hey, on this ranking Australia is #2!
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Jana Pittman lost. Hmm, maybe that means we’ll finally get to stop hearing about her stupid knee for a day or two.
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Tex! – George Bush and the Fine Art of Character Assassination is a new comic book satirizing the Bush presidency. My buddies the Poulos siblings have been helping out the creators. Check out that preview. Well done, guys!
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Looking Glass CatsAmy’s getting so big! Fortunately her hunger seems to be plateauing and she’s not whining for food every minute like before. She also doesn’t wolf her dinner down all at once only to puke it up five minutes later, so that’s nice too. I bought her a squeakie toy last week (out of…