Posted on December 29, 2006 - Filed Under blurbs, family & friends, government | Leave a Comment
Will Saddam Hussein Abdl-Majid Al-Tikriti’s execution prove a measure of how successful our nation-building campaign in Iraq has been? His death may be martyrdom, the exacting of sweet revenge or just another show for the masses in which nothing is actually gained. If I know my dad and what he experienced at the hands of […]
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“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.” — James Thurber
Read More..>>Day 488: An Honest Go Of It
Posted on December 29, 2006 - Filed Under We Are Not Ok, family & friends, new orleans, recovery | 9 Comments
There must be a certain malaise in the air. Alexis and I recently succumbed to its psychic virulence, and have been pondering the meaning of life, living in New Orleans and, most importantly, whether what we do, as artist, scientist or blogger, means anything in the end. Does our work make the world a better […]
Read More..>>Posted on December 29, 2006 - Filed Under blurbs, government, new orleans | 2 Comments
All I have to say about the passing of Gerald Ford is that I was born during his presidency. If that isn’t ignominious enough, I don’t know what is. What do I have to do to trade up to a Jefferson, FDR, Truman or Kennedy? Do any of you remember Ford’s quote […]
Read More..>>Day 486: Back With Packer Christmas Loot
Posted on December 27, 2006 - Filed Under family & friends, football, pictures, travel, wisconsin | 3 Comments
As a kid, I dreamed all year of our annual vacations, particularly about the flying part. Despite that my parents had taught me the world is an oblate spheroid, I liked to imagine various nations as two-dimensional planes that floated above and under one another, much like a 3D chess layout. The longer the plane […]
Read More..>>Day 479: Unless A Laptop And Reliable Wireless Fall From The NE Wisconsin Sky
Posted on December 20, 2006 - Filed Under pictures, travel, wisconsin | 2 Comments
Early tomorrow morning, I leave for the Great Unwhite North, where I don the awaiting black snowsuit (consider it protection for my south-thinned blood) and head to the hallowed halls of football at Lambeau Field. It may just be Brett Favre’s last game in that stadium, in which case I will be present to […]
Read More..>>Posted on December 20, 2006 - Filed Under blurbs, mardi gras, new orleans | 1 Comment
Yet another reason to boycott Endymion this year.
Read More..>>Day 479: Hindu
Posted on December 20, 2006 - Filed Under culture-society-history, desi / india, funny, global, pictures | Leave a Comment
What is with the mass blogger (and extended family) exodus to India this holiday season? That’s nine people so far. Weird.
Speaking of things desi, ANNA recently emerged only marginally scathed from Mission: Lipstick. Her task was to test the new brown shade of NARS lipstick known simply as Hindu.
The high-end cosmetics […]
Day 478: You
Posted on December 19, 2006 - Filed Under We Are Not Ok, citizen journalism, computing & internet, culture-society-history, new orleans, recovery | 4 Comments
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time. – George Bernard Shaw
Siddhartha of Sepia Mutiny has penned another great piece, this time about the importance of “little” people in achieving the tipping point, whether by accident or conscious action. He uses […]
Day 478: So No Surprises There
Posted on December 19, 2006 - Filed Under computing & internet, funny, gizmos & hacks | 1 Comment
The following ISECOM piece is the funniest thing I’ve read in a while. Even though it’s mostly about hardware and networking, I feel the pain (after having dealt with various sys admins and developers, and being a debugger, over the past few days).
The ISECOM Top 10 Real Computer Crimes for 2007 and Beyond based on the concerns of […]
