I’ve noted before that Viennese bus drivers are a particularly malevolent form of life. Sure, occasionally a nice one slips into their ranks, but overall, I’ve seen the coldest, most viscious and surely most aggressive public transit abuses carried out by bus drivers.
I’ve seen them leave women with babies in strollers standing in the cold [...]

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Bumblebee, originally uploaded by scottpartee.

Ever since we got back from vacation, Maple has believed she could fly. She keeps asking if she can fly, and, at first, we thought she just meant she wanted to [...]

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All I Ever Wanted…

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TrustedReviews – Touchscreen iPod Comes This December
I call BS. I don’t want grubby fingers messing up my screen and I am certain Steve Jobs doesn’t want it so either.
(tags: halfass mac speculation rumor iphone)

Is Nothing Sacred? Paris Mayor Auctions Fine Wines
(tags: halfass wine food yum)

Not like the 70s (kottke.org)
Kottke’s notes on T. Friedman’s talk at [...]

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Test Of New Cameraphone, originally uploaded by scottpartee.

New cameraphone isn’t too bad, I must say. Now I must turn on the “split billing” and migrate to a single-handy configuration. Yes, it’s aboaaldanakda. And yes, it’s [...]

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Elsa Update, originally uploaded by scottpartee.

Photograph courtesy of Elsa’s Portland parents.

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My buddy Gareth Saxe just made his Broadway debut in Shaw’s Heartbreak House. So far, the reviews seem quite positive of both the play and the performances
All the same, this lineup represents a major advance over the usual celebrity-heavy Roundabout affair. As the superb Byron Jennings, the exquisite Laila Robins, exciting newcomer Gareth Saxe, and [...]

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Willamette Week Online “Bean Town”
All of my European colleagues and fellow coffee drinkers alway seem to be slightly sceptical when I tell them that Portland, OR is the place for beer & coffee.
(tags: halfass portland oregon coffee beer coffeegeek)

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After the energy breakdown from 10/12/2006 it appears that some of our
hardware is not working properly. The data of five thousands customers
stored on computer backup tapes was lost.
Can we regain what was once lost? – YES
—from a spam email

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Best Blocks in NYC
(tags: halfass nyc blocks city urban awesome cool great wonderful givememoney)

Camp Jinx » Blog Archive » All Access
comedy
(tags: halfass funny kerry campjinx rules song snatch)

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In which your hack narrator attempts his “barbershop” entry
“What ever happened to wantin’ to be a shoe shine boy?” Doc, the barber, wondered aloud. “I been tryin’ to get one’m in here for more’n a year, now.” He pressed his hands to the side of my head and gently tipped my head [...]

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The debate, as it were, centered around the central issue: is Flex cooler than MJQ?
Now, I can remember a time in my life when I walked into each place and proclaimed the venue “the coolest place ever.”
1995 (I think). I’m walking through the side door of a hotel on Atlanta’s Ponce de Leon Av (“Ponce”). [...]

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Is insanity really the spark of the Divine? Are moderates really what drives the world toward apocalypse and souls to damnation? “The worst are filled with passionate intensity.” Are we sure? Are the fringes who attack, kill, cajole, bludgeon, legistlate to forward their religious views, and who belive they are empowered [...]

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In Praise of Joe Torre by Bill Simmons
“For some reason, some baseball managers mistakenly believe that they’re playing chess, when they’re really playing checkers most of the time.”
(tags: halfass baseball torre yankees)

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