I saw a car today that was covered in the bumper stickers you might imagine would accompany a shoe-polished message on the back window that said, “World Peace or Bust.”  I didn’t feel like breaking it to him because he looked like he was having an alright time.
The bumper stickers I see around the square [...]

06
Aug

It isn’t just bridges, or the power grid. Its mines and roads and about a hundred other big-ticket things you can think of that are aging and important.

My brother-in-law points out my unfortunate Karaoke Revolution habits, and the forced undoing of those habits by Activision:
Also, the Karaoke part of the game will now include a phoneme detector. So no more humming or singing “Nickelback” through entire songs
The game is Rock Band, and if my weekends were ever imperiled by the possibility [...]

Worked from home due to leg. Would you believe that, as I am also not doing anything fun tonight (re: due to leg also) that I will instead be spending time with journal articles about hijacking contagion theories from authors that brandish phrases like “descriptively rich but analytically barren?” That end up doing things like [...]

Good things that happened yesterday:

my dog learned how to jump on the couch.
We got picked up by Reuters WorldWire. (Way to go, Betsy!)

Thing I could have done without:

Another excision, another hole in my leg.
Still behind on term papers