I usually find I come to these things too late. Once again I have learned of someone interesting as they pass from the world.
William Safire, as shown in this obituary, seems to be the sort of person that I wholly admire. The article describes a man who was fiercely opinionated, intelligent, and bitingly acerbic.
Safire wrote [...]
…but I’m running out of words, and the last slew of words I finished off was kind of crappy.
I went to see Jonathan Coulton last night with a friend whose arm had to be mightily twisted to go. We all had a good time, from the people who knew every word of every song [...]
California says same-sex couples are allowed to pursue happiness. I’m still waiting for those evil married gay people to come to the door and try break up my marriage with their married happiness and love and fidelity.
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Yep, still married.
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There has also been quite a stir in my two primary extracurricular activities (knitting and [...]
I’m very tempted to start one of these photo-per-day self portrait projects since at the very least it should be entertaining to see me tan burn’n’freckle.
I’m late to the party on this one, but “Once” won this year’s Academy Award for “Best Music (Song).” Considering three of the five nominees came from the same film, one might cynically say that the field wasn’t all that broad this year, and I suppose it wasn’t. I was happy with the outcome, however [...]