A co-worker yesterday commented that I looked like I’m getting beefier. That’s always good news. I think I’ve lifted regularly enough for a while now that the growth hormones are starting to kick in.
Had a half-hour panic attack yesterday while I was leading a team call. Very embarrassing. I just rebooted on Zoloft last week [...]
Author Archives: Andy
Glimmers
June 13, 2008 – 6:38 am
Rapture Ready SysAdmins Assume They’ll Be Rapt
June 6, 2008 – 4:28 pm
For just $40 a year, believers can arrange for up to 62 people to get a final message exactly six days after the Rapture, that day when — according to Christian end times dogma — Christians will be swept up to heaven, while doubters are left behind to suffer seven years of Tribulation under a [...]
Hitler’s Descendants Forego Parenting: This Bloodline Dies With Us
June 6, 2008 – 9:46 am
From MeFi:
"’Uncle Adolf’ referred to William Patrick as ‘my loathsome nephew’." Willy Hitler, the son of Adolf Hitler’s half-brother Alois Hitler, Jr., is one member of Hitler’s extended family, although he wasn’t easy to track down. After WWII, he changed his name and tried to live a private, secret life in the United States. Now, [...]
Moment of Truth TV Show
June 4, 2008 – 6:04 am
I’ve had indigestion all morning. I was up at 3. I think our trip to CPK followed by Ben & Jerry’s ice cream might be the culprit. That or God is punishing me for watching Moment of Truth. I like how the audience sounds so mortified when the contestant humiliates his or her family on [...]
Money Matters
June 4, 2008 – 5:04 am
And it is Wednesday. Our money discussion went well last night. I’d created a budget for us that outlined how much we both contribute to the joint account, how much we each have in our separate accounts and how much we have left after we pay rent and utilities and all the other things that [...]
YouTube Self Taught En Pointe Technique Could Cripple Young Girls
June 3, 2008 – 3:56 pm
I’m not a huge ballet fan. I took several years of it as part of my theatre degree and found it completely unsatisfying trying to force your hips and ankles into shapes assigned to be beautiful. The grace and athleticism of ballet when done well is not to be denied but I find the art [...]
Bacterium Found in 120,000-Year-Old Ice
June 3, 2008 – 2:17 pm
"A team of Penn State scientists has discovered a new ultra-small species of bacteria that has survived for more than 120,000 years within the ice of a Greenland glacier at a depth of nearly two miles. The microorganism’s ability to persist in this low-temperature, high-pressure, reduced-oxygen, and nutrient-poor habitat makes it particularly useful for [...]
Walter Koenig to be George Takei’s Best Man, Nichelle Nichols as Matron of Honor
June 3, 2008 – 6:43 am
Every trekkie’s head just exploded:
The 71-year-old star, known for his role as Sulu in the 1960s sci-fi series, will wed partner Brad Altman this summer, after California state authorities lifted the ban on same-sex marriage last month. Takei will marry his partner of 20 years on September 14 and has invited his former castmates to the ceremony. [...]
Chinese Earthquake Comics
June 1, 2008 – 5:15 pm
Shattering set of manga comics about the Chinese earthquake. Artist Coco Wang writes:
I have been crying my eyes out in the past three days, I have never felt more proud of my country and people… their love, [...]
June 1, 2008 – 9:29 am
It is Sunday. Ron is lightly snoring. Woke up to Astro sleeping on top of me purring. Downy is usually at our feet.
Downy has a strange attraction to cords and cables. One his favorite nooks is between the TV stand and our big box o’ cords that we haven’t packed away from moving (you know: [...]
2 1/2 Years Later: Some Katrina Survivors Still Living Off Government
May 31, 2008 – 11:50 pm
I can understand the government providing assistance for maybe six months. I don’t understand waiting around for a miracle.
Yes, Katrina was awful. The government response before, during and after was a fucking nightmare. You have no right to live where you used to live. I know that sounds heartless but it is true. Displacement sucks. [...]
Topless Tapas
May 21, 2008 – 4:29 am
I got to bed super early last night and so I’m now awake at 3:33 in the morning. Half of the support team is onsite this week so we all went out to dinner last night to a tapas bar.
RON (in Orange County): What did you have for dinner tonight?
ANDY: I went out with the [...]
Malls Track Shoppers by Cellphone Signal
May 18, 2008 – 6:29 pm
Slouching towards that mall in Minority Report:
Customers in shopping centres are having their every move tracked by a new type of surveillance that listens in on the whisperings of their mobile phones. The technology can tell when people enter a shopping centre, what stores they visit, how long they remain there, and what route they [...]
Madonna’s Racist Adoptions
May 16, 2008 – 3:43 pm
Analysis on the Vanity Fair article about Madonna from Spiked editor Brendon O’Neill:
Madonna is gushing about her adopted son and everything that he “represents”. And what is that, exactly? Cohen explains: baby David is a “living totem of life as it was lived before machines”. In other words, he’s a simple, wide–eyed, primitive being who [...]
Bush Family’s Nazi Past
May 16, 2008 – 6:02 am
The best part about Bush making remarks about appeasement is the context of his grandfather Prescott:
His business dealings, which continued until his company’s assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush [...]
Facetiousist
May 16, 2008 – 5:58 am
Last night before slumber I made some sarcastic remark and Ron came up with a new malaprop:
Are you being physicist?
Our current favorite is from reality show skank talking about how alcohol helps her lower her prohibitions.
Nowhere
May 16, 2008 – 5:55 am
Last night Ron and I kinda admitted to eachother how isolated we feel. I think it is our lack of neighborhood. No, this is not a surprise at all. We live south of the financial district with no color and no culture - just tall concrete buildings. Maybe we can find some place close to [...]
Chris Matthews Nails Kevin James to the Wall
May 16, 2008 – 5:50 am
Sometime Tweety gets it right. This is a perfect example of a media-whore parking on a buzzword and parroting it with no context.
Matthews pressed James at least 19 times over five minutes to simply explain what Chamberlain had done in 1938 and 1939 to make him an “appeaser.” James could only shout his talking point [...]
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