There is a Museum of Bad Art around here. I am curious.
_
respond?
05:10:59 PM,
Wednesday 6 June 2007
-
Took the train to Newark for a meeting and back yesterday. Saw many things from the train. In the morning, there were herons and egrets everywhere. In the evening, kids with fishing rods. Apparently they work in shifts. Also, the meadowlands are spectacular around 7pm. There was one rusted out truck from the 50's on a road/path through the reedbeds, with a view of some skyline or other over it. On the way back, feeling sorry for myself, discovered the retired woman sitting next to me was on her on her way back from Budapest, and had been awake rather longer than me. Also a conversation between seedy sounding businesspeople (I can't help it, jersey accents don't inspire confidence) about some medical testing device they were trying to sell to psychiatrist's offices. they also belittled the social skills of their (non-present) genius asian phd physicist programmer, which rather set me against them. They then settled in to talking about their boats and beer. That is all. I am barely awake, having left at 4:30 and returned at 11:30, and should probably have taken today off, rather than staring blankly and tentatively fouling things up.
_
respond?
03:01:58 PM,
Wednesday 6 June 2007
-
NPR just nearly killed me, by playing a tape of somone reading the indictment...
On or before Aug. 3, 2005, at his residence in Washington, D.C., Jefferson allegedly secreted in his freezer $90,000 of the $100,000 in cash provided by the CW as part of the front-end bribe payment to Nigerian Official A.
There are some verbs you just have to be careful with. Secreted is one of them. Maybe if they'd stressed it a bit differently.
Here's the text.
_
respond?
05:14:11 PM,
Monday 4 June 2007
-
Wait, was that a pipe organ? Hold on a minute. I may have to reconsider Arcade Fire. My problem with them was always a texture thing, and, well, pipe organs! Is there much of this pipe organ, or is it just a song or two?
_
respond?
(1)
03:29:35 PM,
Monday 4 June 2007
-
A coot on the planet of geese
My first little planet. Done using these instructions. Original picture here.
_
respond?
(2)
08:16:44 PM,
Saturday 2 June 2007
-
4 years is too long. This mess isn't a failure of democracy so much as a failure of our peculiar presidential electoral system.
_
respond?
11:21:33 AM,
Friday 1 June 2007
-
A story on Obama's disinclination to pander.
"there's got to be some element of truth telling in this year's campaign because the problems we face are too tough to try to finesse. If we do that, then we may win an election, but we won't solve the problems."
_
respond?
09:36:35 AM,
Friday 1 June 2007
-
Do you wash your car? If so, how often? Am I an incurable slob, or are my next door neighbors car polishing fanatics?
_
respond?
(6)
09:36:22 AM,
Friday 1 June 2007
-
Obama is left handed.
_
respond?
(5)
09:07:50 AM,
Friday 1 June 2007
-
Crowded House reunion tour. No Tim Finn.
_
respond?
08:28:41 AM,
Thursday 31 May 2007
-
Some pin just dropped into place some now system came online, some brain bypass was completed. Suddenly I have the ability to get 1/8th notes in DDR. Some of these songs would have reduced me to rubble a month ago, or even last week. Some of it has to do with discovering how to hop sideways, so I can move my load-bearing foot without shifting my weight, but mostly it's just my brain no longer has as much manual work to do.
_
respond?
09:33:32 PM,
Tuesday 29 May 2007
-
I haven't read the details yet, but here's a review of Barack Obama's health plan. On general principles I'm glad there isn't a mandate, which I've got problems with, liberty-wise. The auto insurance metaphor doesn't hold, because driving isn't mandatory. And Ezra dismisses several of the areas that are of interest to me, the actual system reforms (electronic records, reinsurance pools, prevention, quality of care initiatives). I don't see the uninsured as the primary problem. The more fundemental problem is the inefficiencies and waste of the current system, which make healthcare too expensive, which in turn causes insurance to be simply unaffordable. I've seen enough of the innards of Medicare not to believe it could possibly be expanded into a reasonably single-payer system.
_
respond?
(9)
06:44:32 PM,
Tuesday 29 May 2007
-
site & script courtesy of Moss
