Abattoir is a Great Word
July 29, 2002
I am thinking that I should tour some slaughterhouses and meatpacking plants. Food in its original form does make me very squeamish. I want nothing to do with picking the meet off the bones of a brave little game hen, yet if someone picked the food-bits from the bird for me and gave me a plate of meat shreds, I...
I am thinking that I should tour some slaughterhouses and meatpacking plants. Food in its original form does make me very squeamish. I want nothing to do with picking the meet off the bones of a brave little game hen, yet if someone picked the food-bits from the bird for me and gave me a plate of meat shreds, I...
A Graveyard Diary
July 26, 2002
MidnightAfter just finally falling into a real sleep, all the sudden NPR starts shouting at me. Why is Ross Reynolds yelling at me? What did I do? I just want to sleep. Nonetheless, I drag myself out of bed and shower. Off to the CC for a graveyard shift. I am exhausted right now. How will I be at work...
MidnightAfter just finally falling into a real sleep, all the sudden NPR starts shouting at me. Why is Ross Reynolds yelling at me? What did I do? I just want to sleep. Nonetheless, I drag myself out of bed and shower. Off to the CC for a graveyard shift. I am exhausted right now. How will I be at work...
SFWD II
July 23, 2002
[Ohmygod. You cannot believe how much I want this: http://www.goldeneaglebikeengines.com/. If God swooped down from Heaven right now and gave me $500, this is what I would buy. Too cool to even find the words to describe how cool it is. But the numbers do not crunch to justify buying it with my own normal-life money. For it to pay...
[Ohmygod. You cannot believe how much I want this: http://www.goldeneaglebikeengines.com/. If God swooped down from Heaven right now and gave me $500, this is what I would buy. Too cool to even find the words to describe how cool it is. But the numbers do not crunch to justify buying it with my own normal-life money. For it to pay...
Handspring Bad, Vacation Good
July 12, 2002
So. On Sunday, I am headed off to Cannon Beach to spend next week eating too much candy, playing some golf badly, and exploring the outer limits of how badly I can sunburn. I find that I am very badly planned for this little vacation. I am going out tonight, cc graveyard meeting bright and early tomorrow morning, John and...
So. On Sunday, I am headed off to Cannon Beach to spend next week eating too much candy, playing some golf badly, and exploring the outer limits of how badly I can sunburn. I find that I am very badly planned for this little vacation. I am going out tonight, cc graveyard meeting bright and early tomorrow morning, John and...
Interview with a Cutie
July 10, 2002
"Hi, could I pester you with questions for a few minutes?" I asked the lovely young lady on the ferry, employing the world's second best pickup line. The best pickup-line having been rendered archaic by the passage of time and advances in science: 'M'lady, thou art of such excessive hotness that already I begin to swoon of a surfeit of...
"Hi, could I pester you with questions for a few minutes?" I asked the lovely young lady on the ferry, employing the world's second best pickup line. The best pickup-line having been rendered archaic by the passage of time and advances in science: 'M'lady, thou art of such excessive hotness that already I begin to swoon of a surfeit of...
Bainbridge Biking
July 09, 2002
If anyone had more fun than me yesterday, I want them taken out and shot. After work, I happily cycled back to my car and popped the bike on the rack. So long as the weather stays nice, this cycling the last stretch into work thing is suiting me to a tee. The drive to the Seattle Center down 99...
If anyone had more fun than me yesterday, I want them taken out and shot. After work, I happily cycled back to my car and popped the bike on the rack. So long as the weather stays nice, this cycling the last stretch into work thing is suiting me to a tee. The drive to the Seattle Center down 99...
Hiding Places
July 05, 2002
[Okay, yes. Gravity is not to be trifled with, no matter how attractive the idea of standing on a sixty-foot pillar of feathers is. At first when I tried the scale-on-carpet experiment, I was delighted to see that I actually was weighing in five pounds lighter. It was good. And when I stepped on the scale on my bed, I...
[Okay, yes. Gravity is not to be trifled with, no matter how attractive the idea of standing on a sixty-foot pillar of feathers is. At first when I tried the scale-on-carpet experiment, I was delighted to see that I actually was weighing in five pounds lighter. It was good. And when I stepped on the scale on my bed, I...
Love, Sweet Love
July 02, 2002
Is love, sweet love, really the only thing there is just too little of? There are less than 30 years of oil reserves left. And what about the ozone? Would it not be nice to have more of that? And if you ask me, there is also just too little of effective AIDS treatments. And I was reading National Geographic...
Is love, sweet love, really the only thing there is just too little of? There are less than 30 years of oil reserves left. And what about the ozone? Would it not be nice to have more of that? And if you ask me, there is also just too little of effective AIDS treatments. And I was reading National Geographic...