In which I assert my math-geek prowess
Posted on February 22, 2008 - Filed Under Personal Victories, Statistics, Stickin' It To The Man | 2 Comments
Dear Mr. Hamill, Every day there are countless factual errors in your newspaper. I forgive most every one–it’s surely hard work to meet a deadline day in and day out. Every day there are also a handful of cringeworthy efforts at cleverness. These gratuitous wastes of ink are, with rare exception, less forgivable. And when [...]
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Posted on February 5, 2008 - Filed Under Blog, Personal Victories, The Man Stickin It To Us | Leave a Comment
Nice and direct, well done.
Read More..>>UN Rock reprise
Posted on November 10, 2007 - Filed Under Drinking, For The Record, Music, Personal Victories | Leave a Comment
So speaking of David Kilgour, I’m Not There, and New Jersey, would you believe that Ira and James of Yo La Tengo were directly behind us in line at Union Hall, paid their 12 bucks with Ira following me to the bar? So I bought him a beer, told him that he looked fancy in [...]
Read More..>>Look out world.
Posted on October 10, 2007 - Filed Under On The Road Again, Personal Victories | Leave a Comment
I’m easily one of flickr’s smaller users, refusing to pay for an upgrade, and vaguely ashamed of my dinosaur of a digital camera that was even down-market when I bought it. As such, it was with great surprise and glee to learn yesterday that the millions of strangers out there may, in fact, stumble upon [...]
Read More..>>where was i again?
Posted on July 19, 2007 - Filed Under Books, Language, Music, Now Reading, Personal Victories, Religion | Leave a Comment
In the last couple of years, I’ve started a few books that I was thoroughly enjoying but for various reasons1 I did not finish. Of these, there are 3 that I am going to try and finish. In sequence of the amount I was enjoying them when last put down: The Recognitions Underworld Infinite Jest [...]
Read More..>>They must be smoking that pipe, right?
Posted on January 4, 2007 - Filed Under Personal Victories | Leave a Comment
If I had to pick one sentence (excluding all bumper sticker “wisdom”) to pass along, I’d probably go with “Don’t believe the hype” as a credo1. For practical advice, I’d say “wear comfortable shoes”. If I were to stick with physics/science, which is apparently the original intent of the ‘challenge’, I’ll go with “There are [...]
Read More..>>On the heads on bowling pins
Posted on April 5, 2006 - Filed Under Music, Personal Victories | Leave a Comment
So last summer, Clap Your Hands opened for Scissor Sisters at the Mercury Lounge. Having bought tickets before Pitchfork went to town, I ultimately was able to sell the tickets for an obscene 600% profit when a boss offered free Yankee box seats instead. So I’m hoping that next week Pitchfork gives me a little [...]
Read More..>>101 Elephant jokes
Posted on December 6, 2005 - Filed Under Personal Victories | Leave a Comment
Jokes here. Segue: We choose the law because we were too scared to try it as novelists. For good reason one might suppose? “To find this interpretation deference-worthy, we would have to conclude that Congress not only had hidden a rather large elephant in a rather obscure mousehole, but had buried the ambiguity in which [...]
Read More..>>This Is The First Day Of My Life
Posted on June 28, 2005 - Filed Under Personal Victories | Comments Off
A bittersweet moment – joy that I’ve finally done it, but sad that it took so long. Ladies & Gentlemen of the internet, I present my first completed Sunday Crossword. At this moment, I don’t even care if some are wrong. To paraphrase Costanza – If I believe they are correct, they are correct.
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