Andymatic

Month: February 2004

  • Bend It Like Bikram

    Christmas comes early! I was number crunching my weekly estimates for a project at work and found that I’d over-estimated my spending for the past three months – suddenly money is saved! I tell ya, Great Moments at work! Ron was back from Hawaii for a day or so and is off flying again already. […]

  • Black Lois Lane

    Lando found a curious discovery at his local comics shop: (via MeFi) Flipping through the issues I ran across issue no. 106 entitled I am curious (BLACK)! The cover depicts Lois Lane placed into a machine. Superman flips a switch and Lois magically transforms into a black woman for 24 hours.

  • Elmore Leonard's 10 Writing Tips

    10. Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip: A rule that came to mind in 1983. Think of what you skip reading a novel: thick paragraphs of prose you can see have too many words in them. I’ll bet you don’t skip dialogue. (via Kottke)

  • NYTimes: 2000 Elections Disenfranchised Black Voters (3 Years Late)

    Greg Palast – in his usual whimsical tone – smugly notes that the story he covered and tried to break to a reluctant, pussy-whipped American press is finally being acknowledged by the Paper of Record. (Note to Paper of Record: How can you be the paper of record when you insist that people register to […]

  • Amy Goodman Coming to Chicago

    If you don’t listen to Democracy Now every day: you should. http://democracynow.org/ Every day, Amy Goodman details stories you don’t even know, didn’t even consider are happening all over the world – and in your own backyard. Amy Goodman is on my list of heroes along with Greg Palast and Karen Kwiatowski. People have the […]

  • Stuck in the Craw

    I just caught someone on a professional discussion board posting an article about weblog promotion as their own. That really pisses me off. To quote an entire work and pass the work of your own is just fucking lazy. If you want to appear as an expert, do the goddamn research. Ah, deep cleansing breath. […]

  • Karen Kwiatowski: True Honor

    There are still heroes and Karen Kwiatowski is one of them. “After two decades in the U.S. Air Force, Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski, now 43, knew her career as a regional analyst was coming to an end when – in the months leading up to the war in Iraq – she felt she was being […]

  • Pecs, Tats, Catholicism and Irish Heritage

    I you are looking for workout inspiration or just a daily dose of the male form, I’ll point you to On a Midnight Train to Georgia. Every day, Matthew posts a couple pics of handsome, muscled men that have me slowly developing an eating disorder. I’ve added a few of his pics to my ‘workout […]

  • I feel GREAT!

    The funniest faux commercial ever (QuickTime movie) for Nutrigrain. Another film asks the question: Someone, please think of the pinatas!

  • John Kerry's Godwin

    As any net-head knows, Godwin’s law states: As a discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.” There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. In much the same […]