Archive for February, 2002
da bomb
Advice for would-be car bombers: this is lame … if you want to get rid of your wife (which is the speculation of the locals down here), put the bomb under the seat. And preferably do it the day before I’m scheduled to leave, because I won’t mind if traffic is tied up for 9 [...]
Jerry, Jenny and Ricki told me so
Does your 11- to 14-year-old daughter need a DNA test to determine who the father of her baby is? Are you having an affair with your girlfriend’s mother? Do you suspect your boyfriend is screwing around with your brother and you want to catch them on videotape?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, [...]
where’s the sun?
This is the Sunshine State, right? So prove it. There are currently two layers of clouds obscuring the sun — a dark heavy layer, low in the sky and streaking to the west, and a high light layer of white fluffy clouds barely crawling to the east. The early evening moon holds steady as the [...]
just another ban in Boston
I’ve written a number of times here about the strange combination of what I oxymoronically refer to as a liberal puritanism that pervades Massachusetts. The American revolution started here because we wanted those pesky Brits to keep their hands out of our pockets. Politically, we’ve given the country Barney Frank and the Kennedys (now there’s [...]
you’re all stuck with me now
This web site isn’t the only thing I’ve taken my feather duster to over the past few days. I’ve cleaned up the home office and cleared off my burgeoning bookcase. My dreams of being a Java guru or a Visual Basic whiz were abandoned a long time ago when I realized I would actually have [...]
heart of the blog … to a blog with a heart
Yep, it’s a redesign … 577 web pages later, a new leather egg has emerged. With the exception of about a dozen oddball pages, it’s all XHTML and CSS. All the content is separated from the design. At the heart of this site are 2 Dreamweaver templates and one style sheet file. It’s all standards [...]