Andymatic

Month: April 2006

  • Home

    Much to write and much to say but probably not immediately now. I’m back home from Santa Fe. I turned 31 on Sunday. The book party is on Sunday so I gotta clean this hellhole apartment up. I just started reading Kim’s book, Coaching Into Greatness. Also started reading Romanus’s book, Kick Start Your Success. […]

  • Immediate Action Required: Online Business at Risk

    I’m breaking from the usual blogging tips of my newsletter to bring you a public service announcement crucial to anybody that does business online. The foundation of business online is open and free access to the complete internet: no limits, no fences, no boundaries. This is called ‘Net Neutrality.’ Over the past two decades, the […]

  • Mugged in Chicago

    One of my colleagues was recently mugged in Chicago and is blogging her experience back to normalcy. Writing about my experience is, admittedly, an exercise for the internal. It may not be bringing those memories to the surface, but it is providing an outlet for my frustration, fear, anger, hope, and thankfulness. This afternoon a […]

  • Father Daughter Purity Balls

    (via Metafilter via Digby via World O’Crap) The Father Daughter Purity Ball is a memorable ceremony for daughters to pledge commitments to purity and their fathers to pledge commitments to protect their girls. Because we cherish our daughters as regal princesses—for 1 Peter 3:4 says they are “precious in the sight of God”—we want to […]

  • Affiliate Spam

    Full disclosure: Affiliates get a percentage of the price to advertise a product to their email lists. Your Frosty Friend does belong to several affiliate programs (including Andy’s own very good one). She has tried and tested the products, classes or programs all herself and feels confident enough to recommend them to her friends and associates. For which […]

  • Best Erotic Spam Subject Line Ever

    In my inbox from ‘Alex’ using a mailserver in Japan: tasteful inncest porrno! Well. Only if it’s tasteful! Update: This one is almost as good: Dad fucking refined Son! Yeah daddy you show that Ivy League refined son of yers! Ick.

  • Cough For Me

    It is Wednedsay night. Ron’s in Denver tonight, I think. He gets in to Chicago tomorrow around midnight. The barista at Caribou is sitting next to me complaining. It is very warm in here. She left to go back behind the counter. Went to the doctor today for a yearly checkup. Dodged the prostate check […]

  • Detained CBS Journalist Released from Abu Ghraib

    CBS cameraman Abdul Ameer Younis Hussein was detained by US forces for one year after they claimed he had tested positive for explosive residue and that images in his camera linked him to the insurgents. He was released last week after a court found no convincing evidence to this allegation. [W]hile he was in Abu […]

  • Better than Ice Cream

    It is Monday. Sarah Maclachlan croons. Something about her voice is so comforting. Like warm syrup on banana pancakes. It rained last night so I wasn’t able to get groceries so I did the only logical thing: I ate an entire pizza. That wasn’t the best idea as in the AM I can feel the […]

  • Crashing the Gate, Chapter 1

    I read Crashing the Gate with great interest – I’m a huge fan of Markos Moulitsas from DailyKos and from time to time, bop on over to Jerome Armstrong’s MyDD as well. Kos and Jerome are part of the progressive netroots that has helped educate us fellow liberals that the time for dismantling the stagnant […]