Archive for June, 2004

Mea Culpa

Friday, June 4th, 2004

Yup. My bad.
This week was crap*, both in terms of word count and quality. This is the beginning of my fifth month of daily blogging (although it\’s not really blogging, since I usually just publish one long post a day). There are now 126 posts in the database, and if you figure each one is [...]

Obscene mouse gestures

Friday, June 4th, 2004

Ok, it\’s not what you think. As much as I wish this post were going to be about little rodents giving each other the finger, it\’s not.

You can turn on "mouse tracks" while you do gestures, which doubles as a nice doodling tool.
It\’s about a plugin available for Firefox (Mozilla\’s lightweight browser that is [...]

May your mayor be meilleur than mine.

Thursday, June 3rd, 2004

Not much today, except this – looks like the Mayor of Saint Paul is opposed to the smoking ban, which means that when he runs for re-election, I will not vote for him again.
I\’ve made my position clear on this issue – on this site and in e-mails to Mr. Kelly – but he appears [...]

Why aren\’t shirts more like pancakes?

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004

I\’m proposing a truce with my work shirts: I will not iron them if they will not wrinkle. It seems utterly reasonable to me, and I wonder why no one\’s thought of it before.
Because really, ironing shirts is the worst thing in the universe. It takes me at least 30 minutes of slaving over the [...]

Mail-bag: letters from myself

Tuesday, June 1st, 2004

Dear Bruno,
Oh, don\’t you hate Mondays? What about Tuesdays that feel like Mondays?
Minnesota has been wrapped up in clouds like a sunflower seed in a cotton ball for the last week. Everything is gray. Even my skin is gray.
The world seems soaked and mushy. Impermeable things have begun to absorb water; the driveway looks like [...]