Hello, Addison
Do I look like I was born yesterday?
- Addison
Yep. Howdy, niece!
Add comment July 13th, 2008
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Starbucks
It’s as if I felt a great disturbance in the force (caffeine), as if millions of voices cried out at once and were suddenly silenced.
I like Starbucks. I realize some in the coffee consuming community thinks their coffee tastes too burnt, and that millionaire television pundits think anyone who drinks there is an “elite”, and not as touch with the common man as a pundit in a limo might be, but I like them nonetheless.
Add comment July 1st, 2008
Happy Canada Day
July 1st is Canada day, they day we all give thanks they decided to not put a beaver on our flag.
Add comment July 1st, 2008
Mistakes unpublished?
If you make a mistake on the Internet - or a decision you regret - you can sort-of take it back. But with Google cache and a million monkeys blogging out there, people will certainly notice if you go back and delete old posts. The usually critical of opacity site, Boing Boing, “unpublished” a blogger named Violet Blue (more or less NSFW website, depending where you work) silently. Folks noticed, and they finally responded with their reasoning. Fair enough, but I have always hated the idea of unpublishing especially on a blog. If you might take a blog for a book, it’s like removing a book from all existence that’s already been footnoted in other books. I think they should have said they are not publishing Violet’s stuff in the future, even if they declined to say why. At most, put a disclaimer on all posts related to her on their blog. By not telling us why, it makes me think there’s some pragmatic motive, like an attempt to make the whole site more purely PG-13 with an eye to commercial interests in the future, but no one outside of the people there would know.
Update: Good theory here (near the bottom, as an update to the post).
Add comment July 1st, 2008
Random Forum quote of the day
I’ve observed that most railroads are built on the ground.
Ok then!
Add comment June 24th, 2008
Random Craigslist post
This ad for extras for a movie ask for one unusual skill:
Mahony: Afican American/Caucasian Must know Marshall Arts.Need to do a monolog.Very powerful role.Ages 25-35
(emphasis mine)
I myself know a little about amplifiers, but I would not designate myself a true artist of the form without some more study of the many artists that have come before.
Add comment June 18th, 2008
Procrastination
Slate.com has some articles up on procrastination. I’ll read them a bit later.
Add comment May 15th, 2008
Parallax
Tried out Parallax in Tremont on Saturday with M_ (the spouse) and M_2 (the colleague). The website is the same as all the Cleveland area trendy restaurant websites, with too much flash stuff going on. Despite all their carefully designed looks, they all have a kind of sameness. Despite this, the food at the place is worth the visit. We mostly sampled sushi from their clipboard menus - all these places just have to have a unique menu, don’t they? Like a kid at school dyeing their hair aqua to be different, then hanging out with the other hair-dye crowd near the school doors, smoking and attempting to look like album covers.
I don’t understand interior design so I can’t say much about the interior, but it’s unobtrusive and modern. The salad was nice - M_ was fond of the roasted tomatoes. The flavour of the sushi came alive and slapped us around a bit, pleased though we were to be on the receiving end of the carefully prepared plates. The Rainbow rolls and tuna and yellowfin rolls were delish, and the many pieces of tempura I stole off of M_’s plate were well worth the theft. M_2 pronouced it some of the best sushi she’s had, including many places in New York. M_ and I both agreed. The Banana Napoleon was my fave on the dessert menu, and bucking the trendy dining place trend, the deserts and the sushi too were not the typical tiny amount of delicate food, but quite huge portions. So no need to order too much. It ran around $44 a person, including salads, entrés with extra sushi pieces and two desserts. We did not partake, but there is a long wine list to choose from. They also have a large number of non-sushi items which we may try another time.
The place was jumping Saturday, and the bar looked busy as well - so reservations, have them. We discussed life, the State of Ohio, and how for some reason everyone is living in Arizona these days. I also confused an arboreal instructor with a prison guard, but given the similarities in both fields I cannot be the only one.
Add comment May 12th, 2008
President
I am an average bowler.
The minister I had at the church I used to attend never said anything that the average person would find crazy.
I have eaten fried foods.
Were I only a US citizen, this is 90% of what I would need to be president.
Add comment May 1st, 2008
Corrections
(not the actual Stonehenge)
I used to dwell on how things happened in the past, considering if I could move the great, heavy stones of resentment. Now I’ve become a n A Plus positive fellow, complete with a series of books on tapes on how You Can Remake Your Life.
No, that’s not it.
As I grow older I think less about the past, and am less concerned with remaking it than living in the now. You’ve got to examine the current items in life holy cow what was that noise - almost a car crash look at the way the light in this cubicle is so synthetic it hurts my eyes wonder where I will eat tonight and when my bike will be fixed who’s tapping a pen…
That doesn’t seem right either.
Oh yes, in 1988 or 89 I was too nihilistic and made Lois mad, sorry about that. Her husband had a kick-ass R&B band and got me interested in records by Tower of Power. Sometimes you can look to the past and find mistakes, regrets, good bands, or interestingly arranged old rocks.
Add comment April 23rd, 2008
