tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58985032011-11-26T09:09:21.873-05:00Pleonastic Ephemeraand supernumerary trifles.Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comBlogger1741100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-87262373476838913362009-03-07T14:30:00.001-05:002009-03-08T01:10:19.056-05:00placed next to each other skillfullyWilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1124590664081215542005-08-20T22:17:00.000-04:002005-08-20T22:17:44.086-04:00Hmm.Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1104449495774529042004-12-30T18:27:00.000-05:002004-12-30T18:31:35.776-05:00Right, so obviously I haven't been updating. At some point it got be a chore. For the forseeable future I will post sporadically, as the mood strikes me. Here's my Audioscrobbler page. If you're missing me, you can check on what I've been listening to.Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1100009570632134152004-11-09T09:10:00.000-05:002004-11-09T09:16:28.276-05:00After you've had your laugh and felt the righteous indignation of fuckthesouth.com, read this and then this.
"It starts with the fact that we as conservative Christians are taught to see America as our land. I mean, you guys in Europe and the loonies on the East and West Coasts think the Founding Fathers died to bring us religious freedom. They so did not. They died to give new ChristianityWilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1099508223977869512004-11-03T13:51:00.000-05:002004-11-03T13:57:03.976-05:00I'm not as crushed as some people because I've never thought Kerry would win, but I'm still very disappointed. I did think it would be closer than this, and that my age group would turn out in higher numbers (17% among 18-29 year-olds, not that they broke all that much for Kerry: only 56%).
I agree with Kristof's editorial. It's all about "culturally powerful but content-free issues", with Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1099432686086002392004-11-02T16:53:00.000-05:002004-11-02T16:58:06.086-05:00I voted today. If you're a citizen of the US, I hope you voted, too. Slate's saying Kerry is ahead at this early hour. Good.
Everyone should read the full transcript of bin Laden's recent video. If someone tells you he is pure evil and hates us because we are free, you are being lied to. He has specific goals in mind, namely the changing of American policy in the Middle East. Sooner or Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1098810753782609422004-10-26T13:00:00.000-04:002004-10-26T13:12:33.783-04:00If you read the New Yorker article , you noticed it says The Note was started in January of 2002, which would contradict my memory of reading it in the summer of 2000. While the article also later says that "Toward the end of 2000...Halperin and his staff in the political unit began to collect their own reporting, together with information from other publications, into a single internal documentWilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1098108617529896672004-10-18T09:54:00.000-04:002004-10-18T10:10:17.530-04:00You heard it here first (unless you read this, which is where I heard it): "[T]he New Yorker has a piece on [ABC News daily political/media digest and Pleonastic Ephemera favorite] The Note which says it is extremely and crucially important, almost as important as Mark Halperin thinks it is. Peter Jennings, Al Gore, George Stephanopoulos, James Carville, Karen Hughes, Teddy White and Tom Edsall Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1097798452816420802004-10-14T19:54:00.000-04:002004-10-14T20:00:52.816-04:00An ILE thread entitled Childhood Weirdness got kinda interesting starting with this post, which says: "When in the back seat of the car, I used to pick a speck of dirt or whatever on the window and imagine that it was shooting out a laser beam that would slice whatever it came into contact with in half. Tops of trees were lopped off, houses lost their roofs, etc." Turns out that a bunch of Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1097274950663767762004-10-08T18:33:00.000-04:002004-10-08T18:35:50.663-04:00According to ABC News, "In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba." Makes you wonder what documents will be unearthed by investigative journalists 40 years from now.Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1096497071116786672004-09-29T18:16:00.000-04:002004-09-29T18:31:11.116-04:00Baseball returns to Washington. Meh. Will this be anything more than another way for DC sports fans to get their hearts broken? Orioles fans will be thrilled since Pete Angelos, having won a generous package of financial guarantees from the league, can stop running the team into the ground in order to strengthen his bargaining position.
I've been going 110% at work as we move to open the new Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1095954839256305052004-09-23T11:45:00.000-04:002004-09-23T11:59:12.333-04:00Jon Stewart was on the O'Reilly Factor last night. I didn't watch it, but Howard Kurtz mentioned in his Media Notes column today that Wonkette (the DC version of Gawker) has a transcript. It's really worth reading the whole thing. Jon Stewart is fucking quick. Here's an excerpt:
O'REILLY: You actually have an influence on this presidential election. That is scary.
STEWART: If that were so, Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1095723303142989432004-09-20T19:16:00.000-04:002004-09-20T19:35:03.143-04:00The Minor Fall, The Major Lift was one of my favorite blogs, in fact one of the few Manhattan-style* blogs I could stand, and now its anonymous (at least to me) author says he/she (pretty sure it's a he, though) is taking a long, probably permanent hiatus. Damn, one fewer way to kill a few minutes with a chuckle at work. At least I still have Overheard in New York.
* Manhattan-style = some Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1095618357955554562004-09-19T14:25:00.000-04:002004-09-19T14:25:57.956-04:00This interview really makes me want to see The Wire.Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1095439404761699652004-09-17T13:37:00.000-04:002004-09-17T12:43:24.760-04:00Follow-up on the protest arrests: the NY Times says, "What is clear now - from interviews, a review of newly released city and state records, and a decision from a previously undisclosed court hearing - is that the city's new system for speedy processing of mass arrests failed its first major test that week.
At least one of the city's major justifications for delays in releasing protesters is Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1095172995726293302004-09-14T10:06:00.000-04:002004-09-14T10:43:15.726-04:00From the Washington Post: "A majority of the U.S. House of Representatives is supporting legislation that would repeal virtually all of the District's gun restrictions, targeting one of the nation's most stringent handgun bans while the presidential candidates are battling over gun limits."
The bill "also would deny the District's elected officials 'authority to enact laws or regulations that Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1094840136281787982004-09-10T14:15:00.000-04:002004-09-10T14:15:36.280-04:00I'm linking to today's Note, a daily publication written by reporters and producers for ABC News' vaunted political department. The Note is long and often overblown, but also an excellent source of coverage of the nitty-gritty day-to-day action of the campaign and also of astute analysis of the role of the media and the campaigns' manipulations thereof. The first half of the first section (the Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1094497627308017662004-09-06T14:58:00.000-04:002004-09-06T15:07:07.306-04:00Really interesting paper called The Effects of Mobile Telephones on Social and Individual Life. "The receipt of a public call tends to be met by one of three responses. These are flight, in which users immediately move to absent themselves from their social situation; suspension, in which recipients stay put, but stop whatever they are doing for the duration of a call and effectively cut Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1094183677606990452004-09-02T23:53:00.000-04:002004-09-02T23:54:37.606-04:00Just in case you somehow don't get a chance to see page A21 of today's Washington Post: New York Judge Orders Demonstrators Freed:
Jurist Holds City in Contempt of Court, Saying Dozens of People Were Held Without ChargesWilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1093992512353182702004-08-31T17:40:00.000-04:002004-09-10T14:52:51.216-04:00It has been brought to my attention that the page of photos of the green dragon (apparently not associated with the activist-theatre group named Greene Dragon) burning no longer works, so I'll steal the link to a before, during, and after video of the dragon from the bright aisles of C-Town.
Reading back over what I wrote of my experiences this weekend, I realize that my writing tended toward Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1093817899862019982004-08-29T17:58:00.000-04:002004-08-29T18:18:19.863-04:00Today I participated in the massive United for Peace and Justice march through Manhattan. I joined Christian, Jackie, and Lightshow at 19th St and 7th Ave, where we stood for a while. Then we moved a little. Then we stood for a while. This is how it went for the next three hours, as we moved at the leisurely pace of about 1 block every 15 minutes. Despite the hot sun beating on our backs, itWilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1093816545506587982004-08-29T17:16:00.000-04:002004-08-29T18:20:41.680-04:00I rode in Critical Mass on Friday. I always enjoy Critical Mass and this one was no exception. It was the largest CM in New York City history because of the influx of protesters here for the Republican convention. Nonetheless, it went smoothly for 95% of the ride, which took us down Broadway from Union Square, over to Sixth Ave, up to midtown, past Penn Plaza and Madison Square Garden (where Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1093625616103334112004-08-27T12:49:00.000-04:002004-08-27T12:53:36.103-04:00C-Town has the dope about the big protest march this Sunday. I will be there. I'll also be riding in the Very Special Critical Mass tonight.Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1093567751134568232004-08-26T20:45:00.000-04:002004-08-26T20:55:36.163-04:00I haven't been posting here much, have I. I plan on merging this and Razor Violins into one blog because two is one too many. Having worked a bit with Movable Type, I find I prefer it to blogspot, so if I can think of a halfway-decent new name I will be renting a domain of my own.Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1092846789432864892004-08-18T12:27:00.000-04:002004-08-18T12:33:09.433-04:00Back from Texas. It was a good time. Swimming, bbq, drinking, etc. It's too painful to write about it from here at my desk at fucking work.
The plan to supply peaceful protesters with pins that get them discounts at places like Appleby's is, of course, ridiculous. I can't figure out why they're even doing it. Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1092063811299332302004-08-09T10:45:00.000-04:002004-08-09T11:03:31.300-04:00I'm posting from home because today marks the official start of my summer holiday. This past week and weekend I saw Hello Nurse at Lit, and again at Desmond's; went to Dov's good-bye party; doubled the size of my record collection with Kari's help; went to PS1's Warm Up, which was grebt -- I haven't danced like that in three years; saw some random punk band pretending to be British at Arlene's Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1091577697928227602004-08-03T19:59:00.000-04:002004-08-03T20:01:37.930-04:00From the Department of Excellent News comes Alcohol sharpens your brain, say researchers. I have to wonder whether the effect is entirely from alcohol consumption, or whether, as I have always suspected, teetotalers are stupid to begin with.Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1091137291246588072004-07-29T17:35:00.000-04:002004-08-03T20:02:14.676-04:00A couple weeks ago while I was walking from my apartment toward Union Square I was a little surprised to see two police cars fly up Third Avenue, code three, lights flashing, sirens, the works. And then came two more, and then ten more, and there were still more on their way when I turned onto 20th St and headed over toward Park, which had its share of the excitement too: as far as I could see Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1090980636879945402004-07-27T22:00:00.000-04:002004-07-27T22:36:08.633-04:00I read Al Jazeera sometimes, and today I wanted to look at a feature they had on the Rafa refugee camp, so I brought it up in Safari. Unforunately, Al Jazeera's site is all about Microsoft shit, so the links inside the special feature didn't work. I opened up Firefox to see if open source could do better and typed in aljazeera.com. What came up was a news page, but it didn't look like the one Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1090972528596922322004-07-27T19:38:00.000-04:002004-07-27T19:55:28.596-04:00My 1999-vintage PC is pretty much finished (when I ran Maxtor's low-level disk maintenance tool, it literally said "Your hard disk is failing."), so time to get a new one. I plan on assembling this one part by part, because it's most cost-effective and because I've never done it before. Shouldn't be too hard, as most parts these days are very clear how they fit together, and there are effectiveWilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1090696848883519702004-07-24T15:12:00.000-04:002004-07-24T15:20:48.883-04:00This past week The Simpsons was trumped as the home dinnertime network TV show of choice by Jeopardy!, thanks to the winning ways of Ken Jennings. I watched because I can't wait to see the guy lose, but, as the season just ended, the next chance for that won't be until September. It's not that I really don't like him, although his teetotaling Mormon-ness and that measured cock of the head each Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1090605383279999132004-07-23T13:48:00.000-04:002004-07-23T13:56:23.280-04:00Overheard in New York is hilarious.
June 29, 2004
The Virtue of Selfishness
Pastry Shop Worker: Is anyone willing to give up their seat for a girl that has to stand on her feet all day?
Train Riders: [SILENCE]
Pastry Shop Worker: Come on, all you guys just go sit in front of your computers every day, how damn hard is that? I have to make shit for people and stand on my feet all day. You Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1090174142641256842004-07-18T14:08:00.000-04:002004-07-18T14:09:02.640-04:00My writeup of the 2004 Village Voice Siren Festival is up at the neglected Razor Violins.Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1089815815622775692004-07-14T10:07:00.000-04:002004-07-14T10:36:55.623-04:00My internet connection at home has been flakey for the past few days, and I haven't had time to suffer tech support yet, so that's why I'm writing a quick post from work this morning.
This past weekend was about as good as a weekend can be when you've got a cold that causes you to cough unceasingly every night starting around 10:00 PM until you take 3 or 4 doses of 'tussin, and to hawk up gobsWilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1089492331503295662004-07-10T16:39:00.000-04:002004-07-10T16:45:31.503-04:00Here is the first evidence that people are switching from IE after years of vunerabilities and exploits: "Over the last month, Internet Explorer's share of the browser market dropped by 1 percent." One percent isn't much, but it's the first steady downward trend for IE ever. This comes a few weeks after the United States Computer Emergency Response Team recommended people not use Internet Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1089246687150996892004-07-07T20:21:00.000-04:002004-07-10T16:49:33.150-04:00Dan Froomkin at the Washington Post writes an online column called White House Briefing that I love to read. It's sort of bloggish like Howard Kurtz's Media Notes in that it sums up and links to numerous stories, but unlike Kurtz, Froomkin doesn't worry so much about maintaining balance. At times it feels quite partisan against the current Administration. I'm not sure where this column fits inWilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1089154897516612152004-07-06T18:56:00.000-04:002004-07-06T19:01:37.653-04:00For any readers not in New York, today's issue of the right-wing tabloid New York Post pulled a Dewey Defeats Truman with respect to Kerry's VP pick. Rival tabloid the Daily News sent them a case of champagne and a snarky note.Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1088804910913522052004-07-02T17:35:00.000-04:002004-07-02T17:48:30.913-04:00So my writing class ended yesterday night, about which more some other time. But earlier this week, Susan, one of my fellow students, offered the class comped tickets to see the play I Am My Own Wife; shockingly, only one other classmate took her up on the offer. So I took the afternoon off today and went to the matinee showing.
The reason she was able to offer tickets is that she is married Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1088738713657814712004-07-01T23:23:00.000-04:002004-07-01T23:25:13.656-04:00The Washington Post reports: "Virginia's legislature and governor have accidentally resurrected an archaic law that allows employees to demand Sunday as a 'day of rest,' throwing many of the state's business leaders into a panic about the possibility that stores, airlines, hospitals and factories might be forced to shut down on weekends." Ha!Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1088645508756811312004-06-30T21:10:00.000-04:002004-06-30T21:31:48.756-04:00Like I mentioned once before, when I eat meals at home I turn on the boob tube since it sits on a shelf right in front of the table and keeps me company. Dinnertime often coincides with the Simpsons/Seinfeld bloc on Fox, so that's what I watch, but other times, like last night, I don't get home or whatever until later, and generally this means I watch Thirteen because-- call me a snob if you Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1088480361388453322004-06-28T23:26:00.000-04:002004-06-28T23:39:21.386-04:00I saw Fahrenheit 9/11 tonight. It was put together well, in the sense that it had a flow and shifted tones about halfway through but pulled the audience right along. But since Michael Moore sometimes gets disingenuous with his editing, I was never able to surrender fully to his film -- I had to keep an eye out for things he played differently than other journalistic sources I read and trust, Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1088031450982180472004-06-23T18:54:00.000-04:002004-06-23T18:57:30.983-04:00The Charleston, SC instance of the City Paper franchise is running an article about Fark as its lead story this week. The article is pretty poorly written, but it does explain the origins of Fark and its explosive growth in just a few years. By far the best nugget of information is the revelation that webmaster Drew Curtis sometimes runs ersatz fake news: "A lot of the fake stuff that we link Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1088030391319936302004-06-23T18:29:00.000-04:002004-06-23T18:39:51.320-04:00The New York Times has an article on the preemptive steps Michael Moore is taking to vet Fahrenheit 9/11 before the right wing echo chamber starts to pump up the volume after the film is released this week. Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1087949618954119362004-06-22T19:54:00.000-04:002004-06-22T20:15:53.020-04:00Because of a suggestion made this weekend by Wil Wheaton, not one but two sites have sprung up for the purpose of soliticing GMail invites for servicepeople overseas: GMail for the Troops and the even blunter GMail 4 Troops. I feel like this represents a slice of the zeitgeist, a bringing together so many issues of the 00's into little URLs: technology lust & the internet boom; corporate Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1087779225478124932004-06-20T20:51:00.000-04:002004-06-20T20:53:45.476-04:00Jay-Z joined Phish onstage Friday night in Coney Island. I wonder how Jay-Z's posse got along with Phish's entourage. I imagine marijuana played a part.Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1087760404109089062004-06-20T15:39:00.000-04:002004-06-22T20:17:20.773-04:00Yesterday I watched the first two episodes of the BBC series The Office. It was like Office Space plus The Larry Sanders Show with the tone of all but the ending of Bad Santa rolled into brilliant British mockumentary. The humor is character-driven and dark as a London basement at night during the Blitz. A couple brilliant gags, delivered in thick blocky British syllables, each of which holds Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1087310151742257282004-06-15T10:34:00.000-04:002004-06-15T10:35:51.743-04:00At a certain level, it's all about what kind of elite you are.Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1087142497129986632004-06-13T11:51:00.000-04:002004-06-13T12:01:37.130-04:00Lt. Commander Swift has a tough job: defending Guantanamo detainees in the military tribunals through which Bush as ordered they be tried. DOD gets to call all the shots and they're not going to make it easy: defendants cannot see all the evidence against them, hearsay is permitted, and an appeal goes to a panel whose members are chosen by -- wait for it -- Donald Rumsfeld. And should the Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1087057152210606512004-06-12T12:10:00.000-04:002004-06-12T12:19:12.210-04:00Dorkbot was featured in the New Yorker's Talk of the Town last week. I wish it hadn't been. The days of small meetings of 20 or 30 people have been gone for a while, but who knows how many people will show up now. Running the article in June, when the next meeting is in September, is an interesting choice on the magazine's part. Why didn't they just hold off until fall? It's not exactly Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1086994698213118842004-06-11T18:53:00.000-04:002004-06-11T18:58:18.213-04:00Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1086836399833276932004-06-09T22:55:00.000-04:002004-06-09T22:59:59.833-04:00I'm going to take the easy way out of coming up with a new post (and ape the US media while I'm at it -- talk about a herd mentality) by linking to some more articles about the Gipper: what the rest of the world thinks, and a great Christopher Hitchens piece on the stupidity of Reagan. I shouldn't be so harsh, though -- no work on Friday!Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1086630438676885892004-06-07T13:44:00.000-04:002004-06-07T13:47:18.676-04:00Howie Kurtz provides some perspective on the media's fawning coverage (CNBC is busting a fucking nut) of the passing of the president who presided over possibly the most corrupt administration in US history. See also The Nation's 66 Things to Think About When Flying Into Reagan National Airport.Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1086320757190140252004-06-03T23:34:00.000-04:002004-06-03T23:45:57.190-04:00Wow, in 20 minutes it'll be Friday, and another week in which I've more or less neglected my loyal, patient blog. Things just flew by what with Monday being Memorial Day and a reason for the Philharmonic to play a free concert at St. John's (and for me to see it) and for a Manhattan-style bbq (= tiny fragile grill on a terrace five stories above Broadway that takes 20 minutes to cook chicken -- Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1085943193287250522004-05-30T14:52:00.000-04:002004-05-30T14:53:13.286-04:00Usually I'm against the proliferation of those stupid tests like What Kind of X Are You and How Much of A Y Are You. The Geek Test, however, is good enough, with lots of questions that cover a wide range of geekish activities, that I feel OK linking to it. I scored 23.4714%, which on an 8-point scale from "Geekish Tendencies" to "Dysfuntional Geek" places me at point 2, "Geek". Surprisingly, Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1085859582170069412004-05-29T15:28:00.000-04:002004-05-29T15:39:42.170-04:00I missed Critical Mass last night to watch a documentary called Control Room. As much as I like shutting down midtown traffic, I'm still glad I saw this fantastic example of good documentary cinema. There's no narration and a minimum of on-screen exposition; instead, the subjects of the film, journalists for Al Jazeera and an American military PR officer, are allowed to speak for themselves. IWilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1085782031897588882004-05-28T18:05:00.000-04:002004-05-28T18:07:11.896-04:00Gah, this week has been busy. My summer writing class now takes up my Tuesday and Thursday nights, and on Wednesdays I will be doing the assignments. So, my blogging activities may be a bit curtailed for the next 6 weeks.
This is going on right about now. Think I'll step outside and check it out.Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1085452747392460852004-05-24T22:38:00.000-04:002004-05-24T22:39:07.393-04:00File this under "Weird Stuff Bill Cares About But No One Else Does". Because of a pyschoacoustic phenomenon that causes people to react more favorably to louder music, music producers are competing in a "loudness race" that seeks to win more popularity by replacing dynamic contrast with, well, gobs of volume. In fact, this has been going since George Martin was recording the Beatles, but it Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1085344498757510152004-05-23T16:32:00.000-04:002004-05-23T16:34:58.756-04:00A follow-up to my post of 5/9: "Digital cameras, camcorders and cellphones with cameras have been prohibited in military compounds in Iraq," and a total ban throughout the US military is in the works.Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1085239287988237262004-05-22T11:18:00.000-04:002004-05-22T11:21:27.986-04:00Has the Washington Post scooped the New York Times on this story about federal Sept. 11 funding given, tax-free, to developers of luxury buildings in midtown and Brooklyn? I can't find it anywhere on nytimes.com.Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1085110459750963202004-05-20T23:28:00.000-04:002004-05-20T23:34:19.750-04:00Thanks to GMail Swap ("because people are nice"), I will be receiving a 20" x 30" print of this photograph. GMail Swap allows people who want a GMail address before they're universally available to offer to trade something in exchange for an invite. What a great idea! I have two invites left, and I can't wait to see what I can get for them. The best part is if I send myself a new invite, Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1085015152756454262004-05-19T20:58:00.000-04:002004-05-19T21:05:52.756-04:00How about taking the realism of real-time stategy games to the next level? Pretty funny screed, at least until he starts making excuses for the atrocious behavior of some now-infamous American prison guards.
The American media has treated the Bush twins like it did Chelsea Clinton: hands off. But a Washington Post reporter has been examining Laura Bush's role in the Bush presidency, and as Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1084935193398589762004-05-18T22:52:00.000-04:002004-05-18T22:53:13.396-04:00Yesterday I bought a Rio Karma for $200 used, thanks to Craig. I chose to buy a Karma instead of an iPod for a few reasons: better battery life; Vorbis support; gapless playback; and most important, I didn't want to have to use iTunes to manage my files. My mp3 software of choice is foobar2000 because I'm a nerd and foobar lets nerds do nerdy things. I run it on my PC which now serves Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1084848624957102162004-05-17T22:40:00.000-04:002004-05-17T22:50:24.956-04:00Seymour Hersh, the famed New Yorker investigative journalist who had a big hand in breaking the prison abuse story, explains how "The roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie not in the criminal inclinations of a few Army reservists but in a decision, approved last year by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, to expand a highly secret operation, which had been focussed on the hunt for Al QaedaWilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1084769191313278992004-05-17T00:20:00.000-04:002004-05-17T00:47:33.360-04:00I've thought a little more about the Whitney Biennial website political declaration. It's not the politics I object to, certainly -- I'm all for people coming together and defeating Bush. And on further reflection, I can't fault a private institution (which I still haven't verified the Whitney is; well, I know it's not run by the government, but I don't know how much if any funding it receives Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1084757910199838682004-05-16T21:27:00.000-04:002004-05-16T21:38:30.200-04:00I went back to the Whitney today to finish checking out the Biennial. I didn't have to wait long in line on the sidewalk to get in, but of course it was quite crowded inside. Enough to bother me a little, like when I would look at something up close it always felt like I was cutting someone's view off, or when I would back up to look at something from a distance the steady flow of people Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1084652323777078782004-05-15T16:00:00.000-04:002004-05-15T16:18:43.776-04:00Best news this week was that I got into Narrative Forms. I'm really looking forward to it, for many reasons, but especially for the discipline I'll have to impose on myself to do all the assignments. Writing is hard and takes a lot of time and energy, so after coming home from eight hours of work I don't often want to do it. On weekends it's so easy to find other things to do; my Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1084250345695721572004-05-11T00:34:00.000-04:002004-05-11T00:39:05.696-04:00ABC News' The Note is a daily summary of political articles and a running commentary on the presidential race, compiled and written by ABC News political reporters with their thumbs on the pulse of the chattering class. Today's edition contains their best effort at defining "what some are calling the Bush Bubble — that arguable gap between the president's re-elect numbers and his general Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1084154781671761512004-05-09T21:59:00.000-04:002004-05-09T22:06:21.670-04:00Seymour Hersh notes the existence of some more damaging photos: NBC News later quoted U.S. military officials as saying that the unreleased photographs showed American soldiers “severely beating an Iraqi prisoner nearly to death, having sex with a female Iraqi prisoner, and ‘acting inappropriately with a dead body.’ The officials said there also was a videotape, apparently shot by U.S. personnel,Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1083968340298661742004-05-07T18:10:00.000-04:002004-05-07T18:23:28.733-04:00The cicadas are back. I vaguely remember when they last emerged in 1987. I was finishing up kindergarten, and there were these loud, ugly things all over the yard. The best part was crushing the dry, brittle shells they left clinging to tree trunks and leaves. A few times when I went to crush a shell, there was still a live cicada inside. That wasn't cool. Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1083816695966830562004-05-06T00:11:00.000-04:002004-05-06T00:50:28.170-04:00Conservative commentator George F. Will is eager to distance himself from the neo-cons in his latest column, "Time for Bush to See The Realities of Iraq". It's a good sign when Republicans are turning on their own, right?
He writes of remarks the President made last week which I haven't seen reported anywhere else that they indicate Bush's normative mental view of America's people is "white",Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1083716199027363062004-05-04T20:14:00.000-04:002004-05-04T20:21:03.500-04:00"Pat isn't with God,'' he said. "He's f -- ing dead. He wasn't religious. So thank you for your thoughts, but he's f -- ing dead.''
So said Pat Tillman's brother at Tillman's funeral. This is the first and probably will be the only article I've read about his death.Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1083435003527264582004-05-01T14:09:00.000-04:002004-05-01T14:14:23.623-04:00Happy Loyalty Day, everyone.
After reading that, you might want to go here.Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1083430604895989492004-05-01T11:25:00.000-04:002004-05-01T13:01:04.280-04:00Christian and I rode in Critical Mass last night. Critical Mass consists of hundreds of people riding bikes through the streets, ostensibly to promote cleaner, more environmentally responsible cities, though I don't know if anyone trapped in a car for thirty minutes while we passed by became more sympathetic to the cause. But it was incredibly fun to take over the streets and ignore traffic Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1083293020000531702004-04-29T22:29:00.000-04:002004-04-29T22:47:57.373-04:00My friend Jason and I have created a group music blog for ourselves and friends for the purpose of writing about and discussing music: Razor Violins. So far I'm the only one writing! But if anyone wants to join this, let me know. We're looking for somewhat polished, somewhat thoughtful writing, but obviously the bar's not set too high as you'll see if you check my posts :).
Patriot Act Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1083250601755275522004-04-29T10:55:00.000-04:002004-04-29T11:00:58.280-04:00Hey, if you're in New York, check out this play that my friend Avi is in. It's tonight and it's got choreographed dance numbers and it's free!Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1083200063249265012004-04-28T20:47:00.000-04:002004-04-28T20:58:38.996-04:00I need a new pair of good sneakers. I tried to get some at Paragon. They told me which models came in size 14, and I picked out the ones I disliked the least. But we don't have them in 14 here, they said, we have to special order them. Three weeks later I'm wondering why they never called to tell me your sneakers came in, so I called them and what do you know, it turns out those sneakers Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1082937086633407022004-04-25T19:44:00.000-04:002004-04-25T19:55:38.246-04:00USMC Lore: As MAP was entering Ramadi on Wed minaret loudspeakers were pronouncing, "This is the day you die, come forward and we will kill you in name of Jihad, bla, bla." Wpns Company Commander grabs interpreter, puts him on OUR loudspeaker and begins, "Come out and fight you goddamn pussys and fight us in the streets like ****ing men!" Nick relates that some did and, "We mowed them down."
The Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1082908184467932732004-04-25T11:47:00.000-04:002004-04-25T11:54:06.153-04:00"The quality of the display will come as quite a shock to any seasoned user of mobile devices; it looks more like paper than the computer screen it is. The closest comparison is to think of old-fashioned ink on pulp you're likely holding now, unless you're reading this online, in which case the Librie looks far better." The replacement for dead-tree paper is here. Well, if "here" means Japan. Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1082684554635231142004-04-22T21:40:00.000-04:002004-04-22T21:58:36.560-04:00Contemporary art: the poetry of Donald Rumsfeld.
A pundit for the mainstream Canadian newspaper The Globe & Mail wrote a column in favor of bringing the Fox News Channel to Canada for entertainment purposes and as a glimpse into the minds of Americans. Bill O'Reilly sicced his viewers on him, and they obeyed their master, accusing the columnist of such evils as being an intellectual, a CanadianWilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1082511164056618822004-04-20T21:21:00.002-04:002004-04-20T21:40:25.640-04:00Well, it looks like B.D.'s gonna make it. Cool. I also discovered that if Kerry wins in November, he'll be the first president to have appeared as himself in a Doonesbury strip, even though I'm sure he'd get assigned a symbol like all the others soon enough.
My wireless provider, AT&T, is reputed to be the worst of the major companies, though I can't say I've ever had less than satisfactory Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1082430943773661572004-04-19T22:57:00.000-04:002004-04-19T23:19:47.826-04:00I'm like the only person I know who reads Doonesbury. I guess the fascination started when I was 12 or 13 and just beginning to read the paper outside the comics section, and I discovered there was this one comic strip that had somehow broken out of the comic ghetto and was all by itself on page 3 of the Style section. I don't know if papers other than the Washington Post do that, but it gave Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1082313021130389012004-04-18T14:28:00.000-04:002004-04-18T14:34:23.106-04:00I was wrong. This is the first real weekend of spring. It's nothing short of ideal.
So I can't spend much time blogging. Must get to the Great Lawn to toss disc. Things are afoot, though -- a new project or two. More soon.Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1082151288288862752004-04-16T17:30:00.001-04:002004-04-22T21:48:28.013-04:00BOY BEERS GIRL
GIRL BEERS BOY
BEERS BOY GIRL
GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS
BUT I DIGRESS
HAPPY SPRING--Spotted on 18th St. on one of those sidewalk chalkboards restaurants and bars use to advertise specials and happy hours. If I had a digital camera or a camera phone I would have taken a picture, it looked cooler in the original handwriting. New York's bursting with good photos.Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1082079653320661222004-04-15T21:38:00.000-04:002004-04-15T21:44:51.593-04:00"All this thing does is create a random number and slap it into a filename that has the structure used by default in a few different digital cameras." And then searches for that filename on images.google.com, so you get pages of random people's digital pictures. Ha.Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1081903397762234072004-04-13T20:23:00.000-04:002004-04-13T20:47:13.186-04:00Virginia's Governor Warner, concerned, and rightly so, about a large, imminent budget deficit, proposed a much-needed overhaul of Virginia's outdated tax code last fall, but the head-in-the-sand anti-tax reactionaries who dominate the House categorically refused to consider any restructuring that did not lower state revenue or keep it at the same level. To ignore the upcoming budget problems in Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1081738564932277662004-04-11T22:51:00.000-04:002004-04-11T22:59:57.420-04:00"So far the rebels' strategy of putting pressure on countries supporting the US-led coalition to pull troops out appears to be working. Over the past week some 25 foreigners have been kidnapped, killed, or have disappeared."
An article in the Guardian about recent kidnappings in Iraq. I hadn't seen anything about this in American news sources, except about the one American contractor who was Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1081736594008740902004-04-11T22:05:00.000-04:002004-04-11T22:27:06.903-04:00This felt, to me, like the first real weekend of spring. The weather was finally nice enough that it was all light jackets and open windows. Perhaps buoyed by the season, or maybe it was getting Friday off (truly a good Friday), I wrote the first draft of the story I need to submit to (hopefully) get into Narrative Forms over the summer. It's an advanced writing class and I don't have that Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1081614204584966672004-04-10T12:10:00.000-04:002004-04-10T12:27:15.543-04:00Yesterday I played my first full-board game of Go. The transition from 13x13 to the full 19x19 board is huge. I was lost a lot of the time, focussing on relatively trivial tactical battles when I should have been taking advantage of my extra stones to assert myself strategically by grabbing more territory. Oh well, next time I'll be more aware of that. Avi, of course, kicked my ass, even withWilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1081478225882889712004-04-08T22:36:00.000-04:002004-04-08T22:40:54.496-04:00Chomsky has a blog.Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1081475811646228582004-04-08T21:49:00.000-04:002004-04-08T22:00:39.950-04:00And now for some meta-news. The text you see above describing what's playing on my computer now comes courtesy of Listen-to. You download a little dll that lets your media player of choice (even Foobar2000!) tell Listen-to what it's playing, and Listen-to generates a dynamic image you can link to from wherever you wish. Nice.
Also, I finally got the archives index page to work. Yay computers!Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1081394000192285612004-04-07T22:27:00.000-04:002004-04-07T23:18:34.106-04:00Slate reveals what every current or recent college student of a certain, shall we say, exploratory nature could tell you: there's no acid. Reason: 95% of the country's acid was manufactured by two chemists who were arrested a few years ago and harshly sentenced last fall. Why was 95% of the country's acid made by two men? It's extremely difficult to manufacture, and there's not that much Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1081309004672547332004-04-06T22:38:00.004-04:002004-04-06T23:43:00.546-04:00I highly recommend this editorial by Leon Wielseltier of the New Republic if you have any interest whatsoever from either side in the "under God" case. It was brought to my attention by one of my favorite WaPo columnists, E.J. Dionne, Jr., in his column entitled "'God Bless Atheism'", which is also a good read, even if it's not as essential as Wieseltier's.
As I see it, the basic issues are Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1081206276689812802004-04-05T18:36:00.005-04:002004-04-05T23:53:47.500-04:00The covers of copies of the June issue of Reason, the libertarian magazine, will be personalized for each subscriber, featuring a satellite photo of the subscriber's neighborhood with their house circled. Obviously a magazine would have the addresses of its subscribers, and the internet has offered satellite and airplane photos of metropolitan areas for years -- I used Terraserver to locate my Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1081113438061520912004-04-04T17:16:00.000-04:002004-04-04T17:21:30.746-04:00Queued #1
DST 2004
It's time for me to write about what's queued on my computer in foobar 2000.
Tobias Thomas - Smallville
Triple R - Friends
Superpitcher - Heroin
Superpitcher - Yesterday
Lawrence - Teaser
These are all releases on the Kompakt label out of Cologne, Germany. I don't like to play the genre name game, so I'll call these all microhouse and leave it at that. It's all 4/4 and Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1080948636830283682004-04-02T18:20:00.000-05:002004-04-02T18:34:17.076-05:00Maybe I won't get over this cold/infection/whatever until the fucking weather changes. April, cruel anywhere in this world, is particularly frustrating on the East Coast. I want to be done with wearing a scarf, already.
Christian's band Hello Nurse performs with their new singer tonight at Continental. I'm excited, but if you don't trust me, maybe you'll trust this webzine I never read, Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1080870150350687022004-04-01T20:31:00.000-05:002004-04-01T20:46:09.186-05:00I'm feeling somewhat better today, finally. Due partly, I'm sure, to my sleeping in and going into work late the past three days (whatever it takes...). Today before I headed in, I happened to check ILM and saw this brilliant thread: Album covers redrawn from memory in MS Paint (don't click if you have a slow connection). I whipped up three real quick -- Zep I, Smell the Glove, and Dirty. Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1080775472322167792004-03-31T18:20:00.000-05:002004-03-31T18:28:09.890-05:00The liberal radio network Air America Radio started broadcasting today. I would listen to it and other cool radio stations like WBAR, WKCR, and WNYC at work, except my computer doesn't have a sound card! I should plunder one from some trader's machine. At home, my preferred listening is the sounds of ConEd mangling 24th Street -- the louder and later, the better.Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1080695882603323332004-03-30T20:08:00.000-05:002004-03-30T20:21:38.996-05:00I'm not sure exactly what I've caught, maybe a cold brought on by the onset of spring allergies, or a sinus infection, or some other nasty bug, but it's getting annoying having to blow my nose every two minutes. Bleh. Had to skip squash today, and now, because of people's schedules, I may not play again for two weeks. Sickness, be gone!
On the plus side, I stayed home from work yesterday to Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1080536436206690982004-03-28T23:55:00.001-05:002004-03-29T00:07:13.890-05:00It's Sunday night and I'm tired, as I should be. I did a lot of cleaning, assembling, and rearranging today. There's some more stuff I want to do but I'm pretty happy with the results vis a vis accomodating the new speakers. They sit in front of the windows, making it look as if two of the 2001 monoliths decided to drop by for a visit. Rest assured, you'll be reading more about them in the Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898503.post-1080351840882603762004-03-26T19:58:00.000-05:002004-03-26T20:47:31.466-05:00This quick-reading piece available from the Atlantic Online makes the case that the many questionable policy decisions and actions of the Bush administration, often attributed to the President's, shall we say, complete and obvious lack of intellectual pretension, and/or the machinations of the councilors with which he surrounds himself, may perhaps be further explained by the unwavering, Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801702801962861746noreply@blogger.com