I would have been better off leasing a Lexus. I took my Justy to the mechanic this morning because a week ago it started acting weird. Jerking, making bad grinding and screeching noises, revving the engine when I took my foot off the brake, stuff like that. Of course, I didn’t know if the mechanic …
Monthly Archive: March 2006
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More Wackiness
xcnl > en xcnl > en xcnl > en It’s good to see that some things never change. Before the fall of the Taliban I used to read news stories about the crazy shit they would come up with each week and shake my head and say, “Oh those crazy fundamentalists. They’re such a hoot.” …
Mar
26
Holland Casino Rotterdam
xcnl > en xcnl > en So, the last time I went to a Holland Casino to play poker was months and months ago in Amsterdam and I lost my shirt, then committed the cardinal sin of hitting the ATM for another shirt and losing that one as well. That’s what you get when you …
Mar
17
Spam
xcnl > en xcnl > en xcnl > en Although I hate spammers and wish for them to die slow, agonizing, tortured deaths, I have to hand it to the creative subject lines they have come up with to get past my spam filter: “I’ve been grim with my proportion lately, what and you” “R …
Mar
16
Wacky wacky world
I love it. Jessica Simpson declines to meet the President and attend the Republican fund raiser because she says she doesn’t want to politicize her favorite charity: Operation Smile. And what does Operation Smile do you might ask? They provide plastic surgery for kids in foreign countries who are disfigured. THAT’s what we call charity …
Mar
16
Sony Delays PlayStation3
I don’t know why this stuff interests me so much, but it does. Anyway, they are cracking open the champagne at Microsoft. Not only does Sony have to delay the revenues/profits it is going to get from PlayStation until pretty much 2007, but they are losing something even more valuable: time. The video game console …
Mar
11
TOC at the Nationals
xcnl > en xcnl > en So the Table of Contents ()is among the top 17.5% of pub quiz teams in the Netherlands. We deduce this from the fact that today we finished 35th out of 199 total participating teams. It was a fun time, even if the place was kind of a dump and …
Mar
08
Rome – The Forum and Palatine Hill
xcnl > en xcnl > en xcnl > en xcnl > en xcnl > en A few months before I went to Rome I had just finished watching the HBO miniseries and finished reading a great book about the ancient Roman Republic. I had never given much credit to the Romans until I read Rubicon …
Mar
07
Rome – St Peter’s Basilica
I think it’s the biggest church I’ve ever been in. It’s sheer grandeur dwarfs every cathedral I’ve seen in the rest of Europe. A huge covered space, with vaulted ceilings () so high they remain in constant semi-darkness. Already from the outside you get an idea of the scale of the basilica from the size …
Mar
07
Rome – Strangers in Line
We’re standing in line to get into St. Peter’s basilica. It’s our first day in Rome and it’s mid-afternoon. Sadly, the day is grey and overcast. I take the camera and snap a few shots of the square and the front of the basilica. I get a nice one of the rows of empty chairs …