September 2004
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The Ultimate Driving Machine
My Focus has been giving us mechanical problems on and off for the last year. Stacey recently did some researc...
[Sep 28, Filed under Blog, 11 comments]
The Usual Suspects Soundtrack
The Usual Suspects Soundtrack (CD)...
[Sep 27, Filed under Shitfilter, 0 comments]
Good News for Kerry
"Shut up and Vote!," a recent article in the Willamette Week Online, brings some interesting new polling data ...
[Sep 27, Filed under Blog, 0 comments]
Praise for the Programmer
Last night jefftidball.com got hit with a bunch of comment spam from a new source, and Jay Allen's MT-Blacklis...
[Sep 24, Filed under Blog, 0 comments]
PocketMouse Pro Wireless
Kensington PocketMouse Pro Wireless (mouse)...
[Sep 24, Filed under Shitfilter, 0 comments]
Lost
I watched J.J. Abrams' new show, Lost, last night, and enjoyed it quite a lot. I especially appreciated the in...
[Sep 23, Filed under Blog, 5 comments]
Be a Producer: $19.95
There's an old joke that in order to be a producer in Hollywood, all you have to do is print business cards th...
[Sep 23, Filed under Blog, 1 comments]
HoldThemAccountable2004.com
HoldThemAccountable2004.com (website)...
[Sep 22, Filed under Shitfilter, 0 comments]
Actions Speak Louder
My friend Eric Lichtenfeld's new book Actions Speak Louder: Violence, Spectacle, and the American Action Movie...
[Sep 22, Filed under Blog, 0 comments]
Fourth Amendment Tote
Fourth Amendment Tote (bag)...
[Sep 21, Filed under Shitfilter, 0 comments]
Finally!
John Kerry is finally talking about Bush's miserable failure to effectively wage the war on terror. From his r...
[Sep 21, Filed under Blog, 11 comments]
Immediate Rejection
I'm pretty sure it's reasonable to toss someone's resume out of consideration for a writing position because t...
[Sep 21, Filed under Blog, 8 comments]
Optimism Can Be Folly
Excerpts for your consideration from one of today's posts to Talking Points Memo, which addresses Bush's state...
[Sep 17, Filed under Blog, 4 comments]
Nothing Funnier Than Poop
A few months ago, Stacey pointed me to dooce.com, the personal website of Heather Armstrong, whom neither of u...
[Sep 17, Filed under Blog, 1 comments]
The Infinite Cat Project
The Infinite Cat Project provides more proof that you can do pretty much anything on the web, especially if th...
[Sep 17, Filed under Blog, 1 comments]
The Sheboygan Art Museum
The Sheboygan Art Museum (website)...
[Sep 17, Filed under Shitfilter, 0 comments]
Adium
Adium X (IM client)...
[Sep 16, Filed under Shitfilter, 0 comments]
Cthulhu 500 Reviewed
Shannon Appelcline has posted a carefully considered, well-written, and almost entirely positive review of Cth...
[Sep 16, Filed under Blog, 2 comments]
Save Betamax
In 1984 the Supreme Court ruled ó in essence ó that you can have a VCR, even though some people use VCRs to make ill...
[Sep 15, Filed under Blog, 1 comments]
21 Grams in 25 Words or Less
Wanted to like it, and there's a good core idea in there, but the disjointed narrative structure was simply a ...
[Sep 14, Filed under 25 Words or Less, 0 comments]
No Depth Too Low
Data points continue to accrue around the proposition that there is no depth to which Republicans will not sto...
[Sep 14, Filed under Blog, 5 comments]
Tiananmen Square 1989
Tiananmen Square 1989 (photograph)...
[Sep 14, Filed under Shitfilter, 0 comments]
Out of Sight in 25 Words or Less
Someone will eventually summarize my accumulated creative output like this: "He was trying to write Out of Sig...
[Sep 13, Filed under 25 Words or Less, 4 comments]
Collateral in 25 Words or Less
Cruise good, Foxx better, Ruffalo a genius. Good, crunchy action viewing for everybody, but delights on a whol...
[Sep 13, Filed under 25 Words or Less, 0 comments]
Love Actually in 25 Words or Less
More Hollywood trench warfare, which is something I say to label the thing, not to judge it. Grade: C
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[Sep 13, Filed under 25 Words or Less, 0 comments]
Garden State in 25 Words or Less
Insightful and impressive. I didn't buy the father-son dynamic as presented, but that's more serious as a crit...
[Sep 13, Filed under 25 Words or Less, 0 comments]
Ultimate Smackdown Bungled
The Choose or Perish Ultimate Smackdown refused to end according to its published schedule; I am clearly oppos...
[Sep 13, Filed under Blog, 2 comments]
Settlers Online
I just read that Microsoft is planning to publish Settlers of Catan as an online game. That's great news; it's...
[Sep 13, Filed under Blog, 2 comments]
Camp Tomo
This week (last Wednesday to next Wednesday) is "Camp Tomo," a crunch week where all Tomo's various and far-fl...
[Sep 10, Filed under Blog, 2 comments]
WRGPT
The WRGPT (World rec.gambling Poker Tournament), an online poker tournament played by e-mail for fake money, i...
[Sep 8, Filed under Blog, 1 comments]
Return of Utilikilt
I took my PowerBook to the Apple Store today because the Airport Extreme card I installed right before GenCon ...
[Sep 7, Filed under Blog, 2 comments]
Ultimate Final Smackdown Round
The Choose or Perish Ultimate Final Smackdown has begun!
Those of you reading via syndication should make tim...
[Sep 4, Filed under Blog, 9 comments]
Dock Modification
I want to put my desktop dock on the right side of my screen to free up the vertical screen real estate availa...
[Sep 3, Filed under Blog, 4 comments]
PlasmaDesign.co.uk
PlasmaDesign.co.uk (website)...
[Sep 3, Filed under Shitfilter, 0 comments]
Most Systems Go
It's been crunch week at Tomo, and the crunch got worse when we realized on Monday that our Friday deadline wa...
[Sep 2, Filed under Blog, 0 comments]
Spam
Did someone blow up the worldwide fount of spam? The amount of spam arriving at my various e-mail addresses ha...
[Sep 1, Filed under Blog, 1 comments]
Pizza Hut Online
Working late tonight and decided to order a pizza with my inestimable co-worker Dave. I'm an Internet kinda gu...
[Sep 1, Filed under Blog, 2 comments]