Archive for July, 2004



Amusing referral du jour

Published on 21 July 2004

Someone came to this site yesterday by doing an AOL search on “Why God loves Steve Perry.”
Why I’m proud to be a Hoosier, i.e., one who takes product slogans — in this case, Benjamin Moore’s, too literally (via The Black Table.


Yo Google por lo tanto estoy

Published on 19 July 2004

(Feel free to correct me if the above Espanol is unintelligible.)
Journalspace now offers a feature I’ve been wanting for months: the ability to see referring sites, not just DNS info for people (and spiders). Somebody recently came to this thing by Googling “fallacy with fahrenheit 9/11.” I feel kind of bad for the person, as […]


Big fat dogtag weekend

Published on 18 July 2004

We in the greater Boston area are preparing for the DNC next week in a variety of ways. Mass General Hospital is staffing up to prepare for Lord knows what. Hoteliers and restauranteurs are gnawing their fingernails in the hopes that   they can fill the blocks of rooms and empty tables in a city […]


OK, that was weird

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I was sitting here at the computer, cozily drinking coffee and eating some Chex Mix (enhanced by dumping some peanuts into the bag — curses, peanut allergies, for depriving those of us untouched by your evil!) while the BBC programme “Talking Point” streams through the speakers D. lent me when my testicular-looking iMac speakers died. […]


In the midst of life we are in debt, et cetera

Published on 15 July 2004

Coming to the end of a painful day in a particularly painful week, workwise. It certainly isn’t being made any more pleasant by the Pink Floyd covers drifting up from the our office’s courtyard — the office parklette has a summer concert series with dollar beers and wine. A nice idea, but I wish they’d […]