I'm pretty sure my favorite disco song is "Disco Inferno." It's just so straightforward.

I MADE A MUSICAL-TYPE VIDEO:

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At Gena's. First one up, I think. Best fucking winter ever.

Cork.

HNY

The Coalition military death toll is now 4000. Is this shocking ( Read more... )

Home early. I'm glad my often robot-like foreman saw the wisdom in closing the site at lunchtime. This morning was, just on account of the weather, the hardest I've worked in my life. Ninety-five degrees and no shade and shoveling sand on top of more sand for five and a half hours had me dizzy, lightheaded, and hyperventilating despite fairly ( Read more... )

This is something I've really wanted to get off my chest. So, without further ado,

A FUN STORY!

In 1988, Leonard Kleinrock, one of the central founders of the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), wrote the report Toward a National Research Network. You can read this report here. If you read it, you are in good company ( Read more... )

A WORD ON THE FOLLOWING PICTURE:

1. Yes, girlfriend. Amazing, wonderful.

2. Me. And sporting the glasses I was talking about maybe getting in this entryDear Internet: Was this a successful fashion decision ( Read more... )

Okay lets not be dishonest here. This past year has been horrible. I stopped writing in the livejournal because the entries would be one after another after another of "I hate my life and am depressed and having an extroardinarily difficult time adjusting to UMass" and lets face it, I actually tried to maintain some standard of quality with what ( Read more... )

It's been a long damn time since I've watched Nickelodeon with any regularity. Also, it's been a long time since the last time I ever needed a reason to eat breakfast. Apparently nowadays Nickelodeon-watching, breakfast-forgetting children are being targeted with PSA's of such blinding epilepsy-inducing in your face fucked up insanity that they ( Read more... )

This morning was gray and rainy and disgusting, the kind of morning where even though I had been up for an hour and at work for fifteen minutes, my brain was still back in bed with the covers over my face. To my delight there was very little to do at the site and being the low man on the totem pole I was sent home in relatively short order. In ( Read more... )