Nov 14 2005
Did you see the sky this morning? As I was waiting for the bus at 8:15, the sky to the north was dark and purple and foreboding, while to the south it was vivid blue behind broken puffy white clouds backlit by a bold orange sun hanging low. It was also quite windy, which made [...]
Nov 11 2005
Via Smoke and Ashes, check out this Flickr photostream of 250,000 superballs bouncing down a hill in San Francisco. It was done for a TV ad — as in, an ad for a TV. Here’s the ad.
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Nov 09 2005
Martine and I were walking in the woods behind our place last week and we came upon this scary creature: Me being the World’s Most Naïve Person™, I assumed it was a naturally-occurring pile of sticks that just happened to look exactly like a giant spider. And we just happened to find it on the [...]
Nov 06 2005
Jeez, I’ve been pretty busy lately, and not cooking much. Sort of lost the cooking mojo for a while. I think that broke two Sundays ago when I made a big lasagna for dinner, and made an extra one for the freezer. Then last Sunday I made a huge pan of choco-chili, some chick-pea curry, [...]
Nov 05 2005
Am I jumpy? Am I jumpy??? I just finished watching the final five hours of the 24 (season 1). One after another. Five hours. Body count’s gotta be at least 20. Very very jumpy.
Nov 02 2005
According to this Yahoo news story, a top Al-Qaida operative has escaped from a US detention facility in Afghanistan. Unfortunately, that means he’s not available to testify against a US soldier who is accused of mistreating prisoners. By the way, when the Pentagon says "escaped" they likely mean "escaped into a hole in the ground [...]
Nov 01 2005
As Martine mentions, the Pimp is quite popular as a Halloween costume. Flipping through the various lists of Halloween events in the various papers, I spotted a number of "Pimp & Ho" themed parties going on. Pimps and hos are the new Frankenstein and Dracula. And why not? The classic pimp look is hilarious. The [...]
