Okay, so on my wife’s prodding I read “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay“. She always reads these “literary” type books and then shames me into reading them. The other one she made me read is The Secret History by Donna Tartt. I really didn’t like either of them. They were kind of like …
Monthly Archive: September 2005
Sep
17
Sep
16
Fantasty Football 2005 – Week 1
It has begun. The epic head-to-head fantasy football challenge of which Pete “Ball Sucker” Guzik and I are the only participants. Drafting new teams each week, we tally up the points each week in the ongoing struggle for bragging rights. It must be mentioned at this point that this is the third year of doing …
Sep
14
Questions on Trimming
So is it gross to trim your knuckle hairs? Would that be considered ‘manscaping‘? Does it make any difference if you do it at work? With a huge pair of steel scissors from the supply cabinet? Just wondering.
Sep
14
The Table of Contents
Here’s a picture of our team from last night. Damn, we look smart. And oh so pretty.
Sep
14
Pub Quiz – New Record
The Table of Contents is in the hiz-ouse!!! 66 points. Fifth place. Out of 16 teams. Way more than last time. What can I say, we rock. Actually, it was only through trickery that we got Ian, our star player, to join in. We had to tell him that without him we didn’t have enough …
Sep
11
9/11
Today is the fourth anniversary of 9/11. In general I tried to avoid TV news coverage. But I was channel surfing before going to bed and got sucked into a documentary about Flight 93, the one that crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. It was interviews with the family members, and a re-enactment of …
Sep
10
Honoring the Dead
I have to say, I agree with the families rallying against the “International Freedom Center” which is proposed to be placed on Ground Zero. At frist glance, the mission of the IFC sounds unassailable, “to understand and appreciate the story of freedom as an ongoing world movement, and to learn how the lives of the …
Sep
10
Amazing Powers of Precognition
“The administration will try to scapegoat FEMA or the state authorities. The show will go on.” (post) I love being right as much as the next guy. Just wish I could be right about something positive for a change.
Sep
10
License Update 3
I am now certified to operate a motor vehicle in the Netherlands and within the European Union. Pretty cool, considering I still have no idea what most of the signs mean. The Dutch bureaucracy came through, in less time than they advertise. Even though those bitches at the regional office kept giving me a hassle …
Sep
02
Two Days
My god. Two days is all it took. Two days without water, food, and electricity. In two days a vibrant, bustling city of almost a million was reduced to a flooded, lawless wasteland where people shoot at the authorities they criticize for not coming to help them. Where thugs loot HOSPITALS. Where the police scanners …