It seems I've resorted to linking interesting articles I find on the internet in lieu of actually updating the lurkers that care about my personal life. Rest assured I'm fine, dandy, and trying not to miss my darling girlfriend ever so much. I'll give a more comprehensive update when I'm less retardedly busy at work.

Again from the illustrious ( Read more... )

I really like reading articles from free market economists. They always make sense, at least to my logic-hungry brain. (nomnom)

Here's an excellent explanation by Michael Rozeff on exactly why the positively absurd bailout prices bandied about Capitol Hill right now will fail to do anything to permanently revive the economy:

http://www.lewrockwell. ( Read more... )

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/4223545/Ring-finger-length-linked-to-City-stockbrokers-success-claim-scientists.html

I'd like to know what they define as a "long" ring finger. Is it 80% the length of your index? 110%?

I'll admit a bit of vanity in my appreciation of this article. My ring finger is roughly the ( Read more... )

...and your soul is sucked up in the sky!

Not a long post. No, I haven't posted much recently. Yes, this is because I've been crazy busy as a motherfuck. Here are the highlights:

• Nicole is awesome still and we've spent a goodly amount of time together. This is a great thing. I'm aiming to keep good feelings going as long as possible. She got me ( Read more... )

In approximately 6 hours, I won't be posting from work until January 2nd. One of the sweetest perks of this organization is that they grant Christmas breaks that line up with the Department of Education's. We get paid for it, too. I've got a proposal to submit, thank you letters to write, newsletter articles to write, and an office to clean ( ( Read more... )

It's a snow day and I'm not very inspired. I've got newsletter articles to write. Instead, here's one the internet coughed up that particularly enraged me. The comments to the article totally made up for it.

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2008/12/galveston_false_arrest.php

Just one more reason why I ain't moving to Texas ever.

I love snow. Boy do I love snow. As a kid, I loved going out in playing in it. I liked my body armor of a winter snowsuit, though I didn't much enjoy putting it on. I like how blissfully quiet the world becomes during a good snowfall. I like that snow filters out so much that constantly bombards me. It's smooth, it's serene, and it's bliss to me ( Read more... )

Today is the official birfday of damnitnicole and, as such, is a national holiday. You have my permission to fuck off work. Don't worry, your supervisors have received notice and are completely appraised of and in agreement with the situation. Everything will be fine. Trust me, I'm from the Government.

Happy birthday, Nicole. I love you!

This is the beginning of a short story I just started working on... oh, half an hour ago. It'll turn darkly in a paragraph or two, probably with murder or something like that. I haven't decided if the narrator is alive, dead, or a demon. He's being stubbornly vague, which I've tried to reflect in his choice of prose. Either way, this guy (it is a ( Read more... )

I'm remarkably well-rested for getting only 5 hours of sleep last night. See what a week of genuinely enjoying the presence of the people around you can do for you? Okay, *most* of the people around you. So much happened over the past week that it's hard to organize it enough to splat it down onto bland copy and shit all over the internet with it. ( Read more... )