Recently I had a conversation with a bartender about various drinks and alcohol and the like. We discussed the difference between vodka drinkers and whiskey drinkers: alcoholics drink vodka from water bottles and drunks drink cheap whiskey over ice. I started thinking about the progression of “my drink”, and it goes something like this: – [...]
Apparently I’ve created quite a stir over at forgettable.net. [Rubs hands together in a Mr. Burns kind of way] I had no idea my taste in music was so obsure The excercise in and of itself was quite fun. Try it and post your results here or over there. Tim likes to feel important.
Strom Thurmond died today, and I came across this page of factoids about him. Things like he was 17 when women were granted the right to vote, he’s been alive for 18 of the 43 presidents’ terms, and he was elected governor of South Carolina at 44, the year our past two presidents were born [...]
As you wish, it’s mostly done, with many thanks to Diane, Athena, Leng, Beau and others. It’s mostly done in a way that Westley was only mostly dead.
We have lived in our house almost a year now, and while we’ve settled into life in Woodland quite well, Wednesday’s trash pickup still hasn’t sunk in. For the previous two years, our trash day was Monday. So every Sunday night after the Simpsons, we’d haul out the trash and recycling to the curb. A [...]
After many hours of reinventing the wheel, I looked at the box from another angle and it all became clear. This upgraded, updated site is now mostly functional, and as I figure out how I want to manage it, I’ll make more things work (notably the links on the left, etc). With the magic of [...]
I’m learning more and more and getting closer to blog nirvana.
Ok. So this MoveableType thing is working so far, sort of. I think I try too hard We’ll see if I can get it to conform to My Way.