Month: September 2001

  • friday, september 21

    The Japanese writing system The Japanese writing system is broken down into three separate, complete, and insane, parts: Hiragana (“those squiggily letters”), Katakana (“those boxy letters”) and Kanji (“roughly 4 million embodiments of your worst nightmares”). Hiragana were devloped by having a bunch of completely blind, deaf, and dumb Japanese people scribble things on pieces […]

  • Lucich said the boy approached

    Lucich said the boy approached his teacher on the afternoon of Sept. 10 and casually told her: “Tomorrow, World War III will begin. It will begin in the United States, and the United States will lose.” (via Metafilter)

  • tuesday, september 18

    Of course I couldn’t leave well enough alone my first day back in the real world. Ended up going to Sears and Borders after dropping mom off on the train and then went to visit Ron. Tried to conquer a sandwich whose crust was too much for my tender throat. I have a mild fever […]

  • monday, september 17

    I must just be the surgery grandmaster – I had heard so many stories of tonsillectomies and things going really awfully – same thing with my wisdom teeth pulling that turned out to be a non-event. I was most nervous about the IV drip – it pinched just a little bit. I remember them wheeling […]

  • I'm alive and well and

    I’m alive and well and living in Chicago. Surgery was pretty uneventful – very little blood loss – my mouth is stained with the Betadine a cherry red. Got the drug hook-up in a white sack. Tried vocalizing up and down my vocal range and could even go into falsetto. I’m talking. Though I should […]

  • sunday, september 16

    Well everybody, hopefully I’ll survive my tonsillectomy tomorrow morning. I’m nervous. I know I shouldn’t be. But I am.

  • More immaturity: Anybody else giggle

    More immaturity: Anybody else giggle when Bush said we’re gonna smoke them out of their holes?

  • From: AndyTo: His webhost serviceSubject:Spyware

    From: AndyTo: His webhost serviceSubject:Spyware Installed? Any requests for you guys to install Carnivore on your servers – is it already on? Just wondering what level of security we can expect. From: Support We’ve had no requests of that sort (thank god). I’m alarmed about recent developments in this area of course, and have been […]

  • friday, september 14

    I know this makes me a totally insensitive bastard but reading this article made me giggle. Dogs were going through booties at an amazing rate. What’s another word for pirate treasure?

  • I'm afraid of Americans I'm

    I’m afraid of Americans I’m afraid of the world I’m afraid I can’t help it I’m afraid I can’t I’m afraid of Americans I’m afraid of the world I’m afraid I can’t help it I’m afraid I can’t I’m afraid of Americans God is an American