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August 11, 2003
Fear of Flags
Category: The Varsity Drag
It looks as if my decision to take a couple of semesters off was a wise one.
August 10, 2003
Things to do in Denver before you're dead
Category: Jump the Snark
I've never beat up on Stephen Green. It's time.
Continue reading "Things to do in Denver before you're dead"The dangers of personal blogging
Category: Message in a Bottle
I have been considering setting up a password-protected blog for some time. I still haven't decided whether or not to do so; if I do it will be to keep a journal of personal details such as I never have talked about on any of my online sites, so you wouldn't be missing anything anyway. Here is an article on some bloggers who have set up private blogs, and their reasons for doing so. It's a decent article (for once, neither clueless nor condescending).
(Via Tampatantrum.com.)
Update: Robyn has some links to various ways to password-protect websites.
Naked old people
Category: And Now, Freaks
I guess they really don't have anything else to fix in that country (I almost typed "down under"):
Australia’s leading relationship counselling body is urging lonely older single women to become lesbians.
"Whyyyyy???" I can hear the last two or three sensible people in the universe moan, as they reach for the extra-strength Tylenol. Well, according to the august wisdom of the Aussie Posse, it's because:
Relationships Australia spokesman Jack Carney said men's shorter life spans, and their pursuit of much younger women, meant women in their twilight years were often forced to turn to other women for love and companionship.
Which do not necessarily have to include muff-diving, but anyway. And what a blatant display of the undermining efforts of the Helpists we have here: God forbid women be allowed to have even one second alone, or assurance and self-discipline be encouraged in "lonely older single women" instead of clingy codependance. That would dry up the government-groups-no-one-needs cash cow.
(Via Tim Blair, who is going to get all sorts of interesting traffic from the title of his post on this.)
August 09, 2003
Melting brains
Category: Confederacy of Dunces
Britain, and I assume the rest of Europe, is suffering a heat wave, with temps in Florida-summer-range. Apparently the heat is taking its toll on the ability of people to think clearly, if the predictions of the country's breweries are accurate:
...parched Britons are working up a big thirst, with breweries saying an extra three million pints will be consumed over the weekend.
And boy are people cranky when they get a little toasty: when I in turn predicted (in the comments to the above-linked post) a rise in episodes of dehydration and heatstroke that will be the result of this extra consumption of alcohol, a citizen of the UK took umbrage, thinking that I was dissing British beer. What-ever.
We wantss your votes, Precioussss...
Category: Misty Mountain Hop
Oops, Arnie's got some some competition:
A sample of his, erm, campaign platform:
He proposes to rid California of “nasssty industrial factories” and return the area to its natural state, or a slightly altered version: swampland. He also proposes a new solution to the energy crisis that has plagued the state for some time: “When the yellow face goes down…nasssty lights stay off.” When the problem of the decreasing school budgets arose Gollum merely replied, “Teach them about fisssshesss…” In fact, Gollum would like to see California return to the bartering system, using fish as currency instead of dollars.
I wonder how many votes he'll get...
