Boxville
Today is unpacking, rearranging, breaking down boxes, and to break things up a little, more unpacking. Slowly, this is place is changing for looking like a warehouse to our home. My office is still mostly untouched, with all bookshelves bare and the books themselves in stacks of boxes looking like the end of Raiders of [...]
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NW gets worse
And then my 8:56 AM flight this morning, for which I diligently arrived at the airport at 7:40 AM, actually left at 11:30. The whole reason I took this NW flight with the connection was to be in Chicago Friday night. There was a Delta direct flight that left first thing Saturday morning. My wife [...]
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NW Airlines
… stands for No Way will I be flying with you again. I had a 6 PM flight from Atlanta to Detroit, connecting to O’Hare. Because of storms, there was a backlog of planes taking off from Hartsfield so we sat on the taxiway for 55 minutes after we were supposed to leave. That 55 [...]
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No Dragon*Con for Me
I’ve been to most Dragon*Con’s of the last decade. I missed one or two while I was living in Portland, but I went to all of them when I was doing Reality Break. That was my thing. I did live remotes at 6 in a row, as well as recording interviews for later episodes. This [...]
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Back on the Plane Gang Pt 2
I get on another plane today, heading back to O’Hare. I know for some people this isn’t that dramatic, flying every week but for me I’ve done more flying in the last few months than I do in most 2 year periods. I have an angry screed I wrote in the O’Hare last week, full [...]
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My Sad and Happy Life as a Bibliophile
Richard Parks on DM.net pointed out this comic strip. As a lifelong bibliophile that just loves books, everything about books, this really hits home and sums me up pretty well in 4 panels. I’m sure y’all can relate to this Dork Tower comic about the subject.
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Phil Agre on Vaclav Havel
A few weeks ago in the Red Rock Eater’s Digest, Phil Agre posted a piece on Vaclav Havel. I found it very interesting, and I’ve always found Havel interesting as one of the first real rock and roll statesmen. I have a few of his books although I have yet to read one yet. I [...]
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Love’s Recovery
OK, so I didn’t miss the boat on the AJC Indigo Girls article after all. I talked to Phil Kloer today. I’m not sure if he got anything useful out of me, and as always after I hung up I thought of great things to say. So it goes. If I’m quoted in the article, [...]
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I Snooze, I Lose
Goddamn it! My cellphone fell out of my pocket when I was changing in the gym around lunchtime, and so I missed Phil Kloer’s phone call. Shit. I really liked the notion of being quoted in this article. Oh well. I’m assuming at this point that his story is written and that I won’t be [...]
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Chuck on the Radio
Yesterday Chuck Palahniuk was interviewed on CBC Radio One. I was actually trying to listen live yesterday but a work emergency kept me from listening. They have the audio of the interview archived in RealAudio. It’s pretty good so far (only a few minutes in) and I like it. In his interview, he had a [...]
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Java Tools
I’ve ran across a spate of tools that make developing Java even easier and even better. I am kind of amazed at the last few years in Java development tools. Just think how much of a contribution that Ant and JUnit have had by themselves, for the efficiency of development and quality of Java code [...]
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Interview Me
I got an e-mail from one of the music writers for the Atlanta Journal/Constitution today. He was asking if I wanted to be interviewed for an article about the Indigo Girls. Hell yeah, sign me up! He found me by searching Google for “weblog”, “Atlanta” and “Indigo Girls”, which turns up multiple hits for me. [...]
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I’m Good Enough, I’m Smart Enough, and Gosh Darn It, Fox News Hates Me
Those foolios at Fox just keep on going. Given yesterday’s setback, they decided to drop their lawsuit. They have, however, decided to remain pricks to the end.
“It’s time to return Al Franken to the obscurity that he’s normally accustomed to,” said Irena Steffen, spokeswoman for the “fair-and-balanced” network.
“See, they’re class acts all the way,” [...]
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Franken Wins First Round
I’m delighted to see that Al Franken won the initial ruling on the Fox News lawsuit, and that his book was the number one bestseller on Amazon last week. From the article, comes a very Franken-like quote:
“In addition to thanking my own lawyers,” Franken said after the ruling, “I’d like to thank Fox’s lawyers [...]
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Blockbuster Brains
Another from Mark Bourne’s topic on SFF.net, this one posted by Janna Silverstein (lots of good stuff as I catch up on my unread newsgroups). It’s a story about how basically film illiterate but highly paid movie industry hacks are using the $8/hour labor of video rental clerks to do their homework for them. Enjoyable, [...]
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Farewell America
Via a post from a man I’m proud to call my friend, Mark Bourne, I find this article - a poignant goodbye to America from Ed Vulliamy, a correspondent for the Observer. Having just read all of this long column with many moments of mist in the eye and angry clench in my jaw, all [...]
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Back on the Plane Gang
In an hour we leave for O’Hare for me to fly back to Atlanta. I don’t want to go. I don’t want to leave my family, I don’t want to leave Evanston, I don’t want to be in Atlanta any more. I’m there to tie up loose ends and to get myself out of there [...]
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Bobby Bonds, RIP
Damn, Bobby Bonds passed away today. I feel for Barry Bonds - 59 was too young to lose my dad, and 57 is too young to lose his. Here is a page with some remembrances of Bonds. The first on the page is my favorite:
“I remember him telling me that if he’d known hitting 30 [...]
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Sobig
Now I know the answer to the virus stuff - I’m getting mail by infected computers that have Sobig.F. What is scary is the effects of Sobig and Nachi including:
Defense contractor Lockheed Martin had less than 1 percent of its systems infected, but still had disruptions.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology found its e-mail servers congested [...]
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Virus
I’m cut off from a lot of my normal communications - I don’t have TV I can watch yet, I’m on a dialup so not browsing as much as usual, etc. There seems to be another e-mail virus amok. Across my various accounts, I must have gotten 20 different mails with some .pif attachment. Since [...]
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