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D5000

arrived. Photos forthcoming.

Spartacus (2010)

a.k.a. Hey Look I Found Some New AfterEffect Plugins.

Massive Attack never gets old.

I am of the firm belief that Massive Attack never gets old.
I moved my desk and got rid of a lot of stuff I didn’t need.
I made three bins of clothes to donate to poor people. Hopefully they’re okay with out-of-season Abercrombie stuff, because that’s a lot of what it is. Need to find a [...]

Conservatism is a mental health issue

[photo by MeetTheCrazies on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/42448313@N03/3912690083/in/set-72157622224474669/]
Hey, Norway, Germany, England, Sweden, Canada, and the others… how’s that socialism thing working for you? Oh, your citizens are provided with health care and various other services that make life better? I see. Well, that sucks, doesn’t it. We can’t have people that need to choose between food, shelter, [...]

Watch Out, Santa Barbara…

So, I live in Santa Barbara now. It’s kind of like San Diego, except with 0.08 million people instead of 1.3 million. And without the Mexican border a stone’s throw away. And with beaches that aren’t polluted by TJ runoff or the Navy. And without Target stores…
Where do people here buy ice cube bins and [...]

Hello, Apple Fritter

So, I broke the first of my New Years Resolutions. I’m back on the Apple Fritter bus. And oddly enough, it seems to square with a little urban legend or something that I’ve heard — that one gets less hungry throughout the rest of the day if one consumes something high in fat early in [...]

shoes and magical thinking

The Washington Post reports that thousands of shoes ‘inexplicably materialized’ on a freeway. I’d love to see the video of that. Presumably there is video that shows bare pavement and then the mysterious materialization of shoes on said pavement, like a transporter beam in Star Trek. Or maybe we have the first attack of magical [...]

classy

Fox News reports that ex-VP hopeful Sarah Palin’s daughter and the man who got her pregnant are “working their butts off”, contrary to reports that they were high school dropouts and drug fiends (never mind those pesky police reports and hard, tangible evidence). I’m pretty sure I’d be a little irritated if either of my [...]

Farewell, Apple Fritter

A new year is a time for new beginnings — for promises to oneself and for resolutions, most of which will be broken, but a few of which will stick (at least through March). Usually they center around going to a gym, saving money, being kinder, and all kinds of other things that you really [...]

Starbucks is Open Today (thank the gods!)

Yesterday morning I stood, disappointed and in a moment of disbelief at the doors of my local Starbucks. “Closed”, read the sign on the door. I died a little inside. What kind of giant wonderful multinational corporation that provides people with their morning fix is closed on a religious holiday? They’re not closed on Eid, [...]




 

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