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Kay Kay thx
So tonight I went to what I thought was going to be an album release party for the incredibly catchy ensemble Kay Kay and his Weathered Underground. Turns out that I'd misread the billing, thinking that "Siberium" was the album name when it was in fact the name of the band releasing the album. Oops.
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Seven sitcom guys whose features outshine their flaws
You know what's funny? Flawed people. Or at least that's the conclusion you'd reach watching most sitcoms. Many of the historic Prime Time Guys are primarily defined by their inadequacies, running the spectrum from selfish and neurotic (Jerry Seinfeld) to lazy and stupid (Homer Simpson). In fact, there's basically a whole subgenre of lazy, ugly ( Read more... ) -
The first documented case of 20/20 hind...blindness
The Daily Show was interesting tonight. One of the features was about the recently-rediscovered video clip of Cheney (in 1994) enumerating several of the obvious complications and issues of removing Saddam from power. Complications and issues which were forgotten? Ignored? Suppressed? ...in the lead-up to our current invasion ( Read more... ) -
"...and I say your unconstitutional surveillance program doesn't go too far enough!"
mickj writes... "People who voted for democrats last year learned nothing from how republican voters were hoodwinked for the last decade."
Corollary: the democrats who people voted for learned nothing from why those same republicans lost last year.
This comment on metafilter has a point, though. The republicans have essentially flushed decades of ( Read more... ) -
Rest assured that I'm on the internet within hours, registering my opinion throughout the world
Not going to spoil The Simpsons Movie for anyone, but it's absolutely worth seeing for fans of the show ( Read more... ) -
The browser autocomplete alphabet
What's the first site that comes up in your address bar autocomplete when you type each letter? Note, if you set your privacy settings to clear your history every time you restart the browser, then wait until it's been open a while before answering ( Read more... ) -
Frustration sets in when...
...I discover that I'm about to end a question in a punctuated acronym (like "U.S."). It feels wrong to leave it unpunctuated ("US"), but it also feels wrong to have two sentence-ending punctuation marks in a row ("How long have you lived in the U.S.?", as an example).
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Happy 231st, USA.
One of the major seven/four celebrations around here is the "Fourth of Julivar's," sponsored by Ivar's Acres of Clams. And reiterating how awesome it is to live where I do, it was over Elliott Bay and I would've had a fantastic view only three blocks away. Nevertheless, in the interest of avoiding the crowds and ambient light, I walked about two- ( Read more... ) -
How rebellious, in a conformist sort of way
Okay, come on now. I walked right past the 7-Eleven by the Space Needle on my walk yesterday, and either I'm completely inattentive or they decided to put up the Kwik-E-Mart decorations the day after I went by. I really could've gone for a nice cold Squishee, too.
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A disconcerting pattern...
I went for quite a long walk around Seattle today (requires me to mark you as a friend on Flickr, since it indicates where I live), and as sometimes happens in the city I encountered a few overly-extroverted people in my travels ( Read more... )