Entries from September 2008
September 30th, 2008 · 3 Comments
I have what is either an infected sublingual gland or cancer. (It’s like a big sore lump under my tongue.) All the medical info I can find suggests the former — sublingual glands occasionally get the equivalent of kidney stones that block them and fill them to bursting with saliva — which is sort of [...]
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Tags: Personal
September 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
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Tags: Politics
September 26th, 2008 · No Comments
Am I the only person who thinks it might be useful to print out this step-by-step guide to landing a 747 and keep it in your carry-on, just in case?
(Yeah. ‘Cause that wouldn’t make security nervous at the airport. I mean, after all, it’s a guide to landing the plane, not flying it into an [...]
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Tags: Culture · Random Cool Stuff
September 26th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Dan Lyons (aka Fake Steve Jobs) on the horror of tech conference panels:
My first reaction was that in the greater scheme of things (economy in free fall, war in Iraq, global warming, energy crisis, not to mention the old reliables like cancer and poverty and AIDS, etc.) this challenge of finding a good restaurant seems like [...]
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Tags: Culture · Technology
September 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments
I’ve written a guest column for CityLife this week, about Las Vegas’s Towbin Hummer dealership transforming into Towbin Smart (and Vespa). Don’t read it if you drive a Humvee; it’s just gonna piss you off.
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Tags: Elsewhere On The Web · Writing
September 19th, 2008 · No Comments
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div class=”delicious-link”a href=”http://unclutterer.com/2008/09/16/staircase/”Unclutterer » Archive » StairCase/a/div
div class=”delicious-extended”Not that I need a stepladder to reach books, most of the time/div
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September 17th, 2008 · No Comments
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div class=”delicious-extended”The town of Lewes, East Sussex, England has created their own local currency, accepted by many local [...]
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September 17th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Can somebody please fucking explain to me why the Finder would simply stop copying files without throwing an error? I was backing up all my project files because I needed big space on my laptop for video editing. It said the copy was done, I opened the folder, everything looked okay, I erased the files [...]
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Tags: Personal · Random Stupid Stuff
September 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Writer David Foster Wallace found dead - Los Angeles Times
That's a shame. I never read much of his stuff, but I liked his famous McCain piece for Rolling Stone back in 2000.
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September 13th, 2008 · 5 Comments
Supergirl
(by Joshua Ellis)
I lost my girlfriend
I don’t know where she went
She said she had to go back to her ride
She said that her energy was spent
And maybe she’s in Brinstar
And maybe she’s in Crateria
And maybe she’s in Norfair
She’s always acting so superior
She’s a supergirl
Yeah, I can’t take my girlfriend
I can’t take her anywhere
She’s always killing [...]
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Tags: Music