Archive for the ‘Miscellany’ Category

Seen on my morning commute to work. The SUV’s owner wrote “HIRE ME. SMU MBA – FINANCE.” followed by his (her?) gmail and phone number, on all three rear windows. The best part is the contrast between “MBA – FINANCE” and a medium usually reserved for highschool Homecoming.
Somehow I doubt slapping “MBA” on the back [...]

“Economy” means frugal restrained, which has come to mean “cheap.” Economy class. Economy car. Economy-sized. If you’re “economical,” you’re efficient with your money and focused on reducing expenditures.
So isn’t the phrase “Consumer Economy” a contradiction?

It’s appropriate that Environmentalism finally becomes the target of Internet-driven grassroots efforts. After all, the Internet and Environmentalism were both invented by Al Gore. Right? Right. (Sorry, I’ll leave the decade-old jokes alone for the rest of this post.)
Grassroots efforts to get the local school to switch to new lightbulbs are all well and good, [...]

How funny that commencement speeches are almost always boring. Except for the rare occasion, you get riled up and excited (or furious that LAST year they got BILL COSBY and THIS YEAR we get the MAYOR I mean COME ON did they even TRY? – but that, too, is tied to each class’s sense of [...]

Ah, Monday. What better day than Monday to take pleasure in other people’s displeasure? You’re back at work (stop reading blogs on company time, you miscreant!) and have not one, not two, but five full days before you reach 40 hours.
To make you feel better, here’s a video of Houston drivers getting hit by lightrail [...]

Nerd moment

In: Miscellany

14 Jul 2008

Seen on my Sunday morning run:

Finally, finally my neighborhood is constructing additional pylons.

Oh dear, I’ve gone and violated Godwin’s Law. At least I got it out of the way early, which was unavoidable as the entire point of this post is a review I read of Pat Buchanan’s new book. The former Nixon Adviser/former presidential candidate/current MSNB correspondent hops aboard the World War II revisionism short bus, [...]

Have you ever noticed that:
When you nail a point, it’s the same as when you hit the nail on the head? Both imply precision, even though nailing a picture to the wall is much different than squarely hitting a nail once. Congrats on not hitting your thumb, I guess.
Then you can hammer something. If you [...]

It was:

In: Miscellany

15 May 2008

A dark and stormy night
The best of times
The worst of times
A pleasure to burn
Like so, but wasn’t
A queer, sultry summer
The day my grandmother exploded
A bright cold day in april
Love at first sight.


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1) A technique in Super Smash Bros. Melee that lets you move quickly without changing direction.

2) A blog about online communities and the grassroots engines that power them.

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