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Entries from April 2002

Prince is The Man

April 29th, 2002 · 4 Comments

A lot of you don’t know one of my biggest secrets. I am a member of an exclusive group, privy to inside information of The Boss, tuned into the frequencies that eminate from the headquarters. Of course, I’m going to blow my cover, but first, we need to discuss something.Most people have thought [...]

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Tags: Music

The Dooce, dead?

April 24th, 2002 · 1 Comment

The Dooce (site) has ceased publishing her site due to friction it has caused in her personal life.I’m sad to see her go. Her sardonic musings and pithy analysis of common situations were a pleasure to read, and almost always side-splittingly funny. But I can respect her decisions. Go read her archives and [...]

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Tags: Writing

Umm…

April 23rd, 2002 · 4 Comments

I’m not quite sure what to make of this

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Tags: Religion · This is Weird

Ninja’s Are Totally Sweet

April 22nd, 2002 · 14 Comments

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Tags: This is Weird

Sucking Head

April 19th, 2002 · 1 Comment

Sucking HeadToday we leave for Baton Rouge. The Annual Family Crawfish Boil draws folks from Atlanta, New York, Ypsilanti, Lafayette, Knoxville and even a European or two on occasion. The sultry brew of mud bug delight is never too spicey, never too scant. The greatest pleasure: to watch a bunch of native [...]

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Tags: Food and Cooking · Travel

Summer Under Prince GeorgeMy magnolia

April 18th, 2002 · 1 Comment

Summer Under Prince GeorgeMy magnolia tree is sprouting the sparest of burgeoning blossoms. The grass is fully green. The deck, already broken in with Asheton’s goodbye party (pictures coming soon), will be waterproof and capable of withstanding Atlanta’s monsoons. The cooler of a lifetime has been purchased, Paul and Cath’s move to the [...]

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Tags: Life

Semi-Donkey

April 12th, 2002 · 1 Comment

Google’s new translation services seem to kick Altavista’s BabelFish butt up and down the street. However, given the name of my site, and the general tone, it needs to be smart enough to translate my use of the word “ass” correctly. It’s not about donkeys.

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Tags: Techie

Ennui of Youth

April 10th, 2002 · 4 Comments

This is what I love about non-commercial radio: I was listening to WRAS in my car. They played a song off the new Joey Ramone disc. Afterwards the young DJ said, “that was Joey Ramone off his solo record, which came out unfortunately after he died. It’s a tragedy, his solo record was released after [...]

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Tags: Atlanta · Culture · Music · Observations

L-Ron Sticks it to Google

April 5th, 2002 · 3 Comments

According to this article on Wired News, everybody’s favorite star-studded cult as managed to get the biggest, baddest search engine to remove results which contain links to sites which might infringe upon the church’s copyrights.Well folks, with spines like that, it looks like it may be the beginning of the very long fade out [...]

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Tags: Secrets · Techie

Copy Protection by Making Everything Suck

April 4th, 2002 · 3 Comments

Slashdot posted this article about copy protection on Sony’s new Celine Dion CD. The disk apparently contains errors or artifacts that will likely cause any Macintosh or PC Clone to crash when attemptig to play the disk. If this is true, it’s absurd, as I’m pretty sure that the manufacturers of CD drives [...]

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Tags: Techie

Holy Flame’s Humor

April 3rd, 2002 · 2 Comments

This is by far the funnist thing I have seen in ages. It rivals the Penguin joke from Twin Peaks.U.S. Drops Cats Into Belgium
Washington, D.C. (SatireWire.com) Countering accusations from liberals and conservatives alike that U.S. policy in the Middle East has become “confused and incoherent,” the Bush administration today announced that it has [...]

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Tags: Culture

Busdrivers Rising

April 2nd, 2002 · 2 Comments

If you want to hear something very funny, go here and listen to track 8.
It’s the Bus Drivers, sans Scotty the Body. I never got to hear the Rage Against the Machine version, but apparently it is some guy yelling, “Freedom, yeah right!” over and over. I think we did it justice by mocking [...]

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Tags: Music

Maryland Writes the checks

April 2nd, 2002 ·

Well Maryland has proven that money CAN buy anything. Although I will admit that the basketball players probably do get roughly the same quality of education as the “students.”Who is their right mind vandalizes a post office? I ask you…- nic

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Tags: Basketball

Look overhead!

April 1st, 2002 · 4 Comments

I have seen a lot of this lately.
This one didn’t make me laugh so much as it makes me sad. It’s come to this.
A perfectly normal phenomenon that has been around for decades, and now fairly recently it is A Sinister Government Plot to Kill Americans! I suppose to clear out some room [...]

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Tags: Secrets · This is Weird

That’s MY Beer

April 1st, 2002 · 3 Comments

OK, imagine for a minute that you are Arafat. You are trapped in your compound, rationing water and food. Do you really WANT 45 enthusiasts showing up; eating your food; and drinking your water?

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Tags: Observations