And the winner is…

April 28th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |

Our ten-thousandth spam com­ment rolled in today, “buy bon­tril.” Jonathan over at snook​.ca writes recently about “the death of com­ments.” The dis­cus­sions that make blog­ging com­pelling are get­ting rou­tinely trashed, and more and more sites are cut­ting off com­ments alto­gether, mak­ing it a one-way dia­log — at best. Com­mer­cial auto­mated spam is, as he puts it, […]

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As If You Might Need Another Reason…

April 22nd, 2007 | 0 Comments | Politics |

..to think these peo­ple are fools, check this out. I for one have dif­fi­culty imag­ing cir­cum­stances under which I’d say, “don’t touch me,” to Cheryl Crow.

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10,000 Manics: An Office Pool

April 20th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |

Spam spam spam spam Spam spam spam spam You know the song. As this site approaches its first anniver­sary, we’re also approach­ing another mile­stone: 10,000 pieces of blog spam. Mer­ci­fully, the spam fil­ter has caught all but a few, oth­er­wise I’d be spend­ing the entire ten min­utes of free time I get every week delet­ing them. As […]

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Flooding

April 15th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Home |

This sucks.
Flooding

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Watching the Watchers

April 14th, 2007 | 1 Comment | Politics |

I was actu­ally sur­prised to learn that Katie Couric was a right-wing flack when she took over the CBS News. Maybe I hadn’t been pay­ing any atten­tion to the Today Show (I never have time for TV in the morn­ing), but it never occurred to me that cute lit­tle Katie could be the kind of […]

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Brooklyn Symphony

April 12th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Music |

Come on down to St. Anne’s Church on Mon­tague St. this Sun­day at 3 to hear the Brook­lyn Sym­phony. It’s not often now that I’ve got­ten to be a “cer­tain age” when I find a new piece that makes me say, “where’s this been?” But we’ve got one on Sun­day, the Glauzunov 4th Sym­phony. It’s […]

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Happy Easter

April 8th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Art |

I wear this tie every year to Easter morn­ing gigs.
Easter Egg Tie

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Screaming Tree

April 6th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Uncategorized |

I saw this in South Moun­tain Reser­va­tion this morn­ing. Sorry for the crappy cell­phone photo — I really need to start remem­ber­ing to bring my reg­u­lar cam­era with me.
Scary Tree

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For My Next Trick…

April 5th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Politics |

Every­body is lov­ing this photo. Now watch while I drink a glass of water!
Ventriloquist and Dummy

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Real Estate Bubble?

April 4th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Politics |

Using advanced sta­tis­ti­cal meth­ods plus a copy of “Roller Coaster Tycoon,” this video will make you glad you bought real estate early — or wish you had.

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Just In Time For The Holidays

April 1st, 2007 | 0 Comments | Music |

Don’t be dis­tracted from the things that are impor­tant to your life by some­thing as silly as the “Choco­late Jesus.” Be dis­tracted by this instead.

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Find Something Geekier

April 1st, 2007 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |

Go on, I dare you.

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