Monthly Archive for February, 2004

Garage Sale

Pres­ley and I are having an online Garage Sale. We’ve dropped post­ings on Craigslist, and we’re going to tell every­one we know, “come buy our unwanted stuff”.

I’ve got a Pow­er­mac G4, 25” TV, DVD Player, and other good­ies for sale. If you’re in the Boston/Cambridge/Eastern New Eng­land region, take a look!

Email ques­tions to garagesale@suckahs.org. And, please feel free to make us an offer.

Comments

I fixed a little bug in my com­ment tem­plate, which was launch­ing new win­dows when you hit post.

I got tired of secretly wait­ing for MT 3.0 to come out, that I decided to have a look, and fix it.

Intern-gate, Non-existent

So, the gen­eral con­sen­sus around seems to be that the Kerry/Intern story reported by Drudge (and pointed out below), seems to not hold water.

  • Won­kette says that the woman in ques­tion is return­ing to the States soon
  • dKos thinks the fact that main­stream media hasn’t picked up the story, is a good sign
  • Even cranky Slate had a humor­ous reac­tion today
  • Salon takes Drudge to task
  • And the Philadel­phia Daily News is cau­tion­ing about rumors

In fact, the British press not with­stand­ing, I’m happy to see Big Media using some restraint on this issue. If only I could keep from freak­ing out on my weblog.

Intern-gate, Revisited

Matt Drudge is report­ing the following:

drudge-dems.gifCAM­PAIGN DRAMA ROCKS DEMOC­RATS - KERRY FIGHTS OFF MEDIA PROBE OF RECENT ALLEGED INFI­DELITY, RIVALS PRE­DICT RUIN.

In an off-the-record con­ver­sa­tion with a dozen reporters ear­lier this week, Gen­eral Wesley Clark plainly stated: ‘Kerry will implode over an intern issue’…

Kerry com­mo­tion is why Howard Dean has turned increas­ingly aggres­sive against Kerry in recent days, and is the key reason why Dean reversed his deci­sion not to drop out of the race after Wis­con­sin, top cam­paign sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT….

A seri­ous inves­ti­ga­tion of the woman and the nature of her rela­tion­ship with Sen. John Kerry has been under­way at TIME mag­a­zine, ABC NEWS, the WASH­ING­TON POST and the ASSO­CI­ATED PRESS, where the woman in ques­tion once worked…

It’s time for Howard Dean to grow up and run a real cam­paign. We need some­one to rescue this party.

Underground Man

After read­ing Dunstan’s humor­ous post on British rail, and the silly responses he received from Amer­i­cans and Ger­mans, I was reminded of an excel­lent arti­cle by William Finnegan in the New Yorker last week, Under­ground Man: Can the former C.I.A. agent who saved New York’s subway get the Tube back on track?

After scour­ing the New Yorker web site and Google with­out luck, I decided it was worth scan­ning and post­ing the arti­cle. Sorry they’re jpgs… I prob­a­bly won’t leave it up very long (file size/bandwidth), unless some­one can sug­gest a way to extract the text of the article.

I’m your public library.

UPDATE 9/12/2005: I changed my direc­tory secu­rity a while back, so these arti­cles have not been linked. Here ya go:

The Victory Card

The very first card that helps you support your Democratic ideals...While I’m still absorb­ing tonight’s Kerry vic­to­ries in Vir­ginia and Ten­nessee, I would like to share with my read­ers one of the more amus­ing pieces of direct mail that I’ve seen – The Vic­tory Card Mas­ter­Card from the Mass­a­chu­setts Demo­c­ra­tic Party. Now, I love my party, and I’ve cer­tainly given a good chunk of my time, money and (lim­ited) tal­ents over the years… but this piece of mar­ket­ing mate­r­ial is really silly.

I know I’m cyn­i­cal and all, but this multi-​culti pic­ture of bi-​racial babies being hugged by an Amer­i­can flag, is just plain funny. The under­ly­ing mes­sage is right and com­mend­able, but do we need to use babies? …to sell a credit card?

Ahh, but each pur­chase puts a per­cent­age into the Com­mon­wealth Dems’ coffers… Some­how, I think I’d rather write another check.

Firefox 0.8

Get FirefoxJon Hicks posted today about the re-​branding of the Mozilla Fire­bird browser. Though I don’t love the new name, Fire­fox, obvi­ously lawyers have been involved.

But, the new logo is what really caught my eye… It’s truly an inspir­ing leap. And the pin­stripe theme for OS X is beau­ti­ful as well. I’m still a Safari fan, but it’s good to see another alternative.

More proof that Google is broken

Google has decided that this site is the #1 result for super bowl jack­son uncen­sored pic.

Why? I haven’t posted a bit about the Super­bowl fiasco (oops, now I did).

There prob­a­bly was a link on my aggre­gated News Page for a few hours… but, Google isn’t link­ing to that page, but rather the ref­erer page!

Thanks to weblogs, Google is nearly useless.

Anniversary with the Sabres

romantic night

A romantic night wouldn’t be complete without Canadian beer

On Jan­u­ary 23, Pres­ley and I marked our 7th anniver­sary, and I couldn’t think of a better way to spend it than at the Sabres-​Bruins hockey game. Am I right?

Just so you don’t think I’m weird, our first “date” was a Sabres game (in Buf­falo) in Decem­ber of 1996. So, it was a nice reminder for us, and it was cool. Thanks to Craigslist, we got first-​row, on-the-glass seats. Amazing.

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