Archives for December 2001

photos from home

244 words, no comments December 3, 2001 5:56pm

Although I visited home a while ago, I only recently got back some photographs from that trip. Perhaps the most awaited photo was that of me at ...

my clever friends

689 words, no comments December 3, 2001 6:56pm

I like going to parties as much as the next guy. But I have to say that I most enjoy going to parties whose invitations have subtle political/cultural ...

moving gingerly into the future

874 words, no comments December 4, 2001 5:59pm

Okay, I admit it, the Segway Human Transporter (aka HT aka Ginger aka IT (free registration required)) looks cool. People zooming around as if on ...

life in these united states

137 words, no comments December 4, 2001 6:59pm

Sometimes life imitates those stories people send in to Reader's Digest for money. Beeman and I were at a party talking to someone about the small ...

o' mice an' men

326 words, no comments December 9, 2001 5:59pm

When I originally made plans for this past weekend, the biggest problem I had was which party or show to go to. But you know how plans go. Little did ...

http://www.google.com/search?q=spock

647 words, no comments December 12, 2001 3:20pm

I've been doing a lot of touching up around Cockahoop lately, mostly behind the scenes. You know, firing most of our editorial staff due to the economic ...

what-a-hoop?

198 words, no comments December 12, 2001 4:20pm

Of course, what the previous article failed to emphasize is the number of naughty searches that also end up in my referral logs. This is apparently ...

naked baby photos

203 words, no comments December 12, 2001 6:20pm

I recently discovered that Google allows one to search Usenet (newsgroup) archives all the way back to 1981, making it a bit like an internet Way-Back ...

yatta!

54 words, no comments December 12, 2001 9:20pm

In honor of this week's (okay, memepool says last month's) stellar Japanese video meme (Windows Media format. Non-IE users, right click on link and ...

blender contest update

279 words, no comments December 16, 2001 5:55pm

I recently received an interestingly belated entry to the now two-months-old blender contest. It was sent by my girlfriend's sister, Rachel. And ...

partially defatted fatty tissue, part 1

419 words, no comments December 17, 2001 1:54am

I recently received two spam e-mails recently that I rather enjoyed. That doesn't mean that spamming isn't, as George Bush would put it, evil. But ...

partially defatted fatty tissue, part 2

517 words, no comments December 17, 2001 2:54am

The other spam e-mail I got invited me to "Have A Ball Watching Squirrels Try To Outwit This Birdfeeder". By "This Birdfeeder", they mean this bird ...

it's not easy being green

69 words, no comments December 17, 2001 4:54am

According to CNN.com today, Tom Green is filing from divorce from Drew Barrymore. His divorce petition cited the reason as irreconcilable differences. I'll ...

Previous month: "November 2001" Next month: "January 2002"

Old blog entries by month

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

2000