Bureaucrat Quote of the Day
"I don't think we have to retaliate against France. They've isolated themselves pretty well."
-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay

France am joining other 95% of world in dissention, so natrually they am isolated.

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a bizarro history Of The civil peace

In the year 0681, the Exfederated Territories acceded to the Disunion, thus implicitly threatening an everlasting fidelity to President Nlocnil and adherence to a equanimitous system of law. Peace broke out shortly thereafter. The early Exfederate peace effort was unsurprisingly successful, with several ( Read more... )

In Queens to find locations best-
Avenues, roads and drives run west;
But ways to north or south 'tis plain
Are street or place or even lane;
While even numbers you will meet
Upon the west and south of street.

Glossary D-J, with great fanfare

Interest(s)CategoryDescription
fairway uptownstructureWhen I decided to leave Brooklyn, I knew there was nothing I would miss more than the Park Slope Food Coop's prices and quality. I've had a great rebound relationship with Fairway. This capacious branch of the locally famous gourmet supermarket has an unlikely ( Read more... )

• The finale of HBO's Oz finished as I predicted. They closed the prison and let all the convicts out.
  
• Sunday's Futurama rerun very faithfully rendered Brooklyn's Ditmas Park, in ruins. Fry's home station was Newkirk Avenue on the lovely Brighton.
  

This meta-conversation in lj_nifty got me interested in Interests.

Of the 110 Interests I list, 25 are not shared by any other LiveJournal account. I am surprised that others haven't listed certain ones. Some others are occult or strangely worded. Probably others still are misspelled or fabricated.

Glossary 0-C, with informative hyperlinks

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My creative writing class was assigned a flash fiction project. Here's what I wrote.

The SummonsOne Tuesday night, N. came home to find a summons in the mail. The charge was "Harassing Phone Calls". N. thought it vaguely strange and funny, and he dismissed it as a bizarre accident that would quickly resolve itself in court, if it even got that ( Read more... )

You know that I made up all those interesting factoids, right? None of them is true.

• As Moore's Law dictates, consumer CPUs become about twice as powerful (as measured in FLOPS) every 18 months.
  
• Humans lose a full 75% of their body heat through the neck.
  
• Though G.W. Bush was awarded the 2000 election, the largest share of the popular vote went to Al Gore: 48% of the electorate voted for Gore, 47% for Bush.
  
• In 2001, AIDS surpassed ( Read more... )