Tag: weird

  • Embracing the tubes

    Candice pointed out to me this morning that US presidential hopeful John Edwards has a myspace, livejournal, youtube, del.icio.us, xanga, facebook, flickr, orkut, metacafe, tagworld, 43Things, yahoo! 360°, essembly, gather, partybuilder, ning, revver, blip.tv, CHBN, vSocial, collectivex, bebo, care2, and hi5 account. I think this is what those in the campaign management profession call “trying […]

  • Breaking science news from CFRA

    Breaking science news from local Ottawa radio station/news website CFRA.

  • People I am not

    Inspired by Dennis Ritchie, here is a list of people who I am not: Rich Lafferty, champion enduro motorcycle racer, who gives me the best run for my money in Google (although I now have the #1 result for “rich lafferty motorcycle” which amuses me) Richard Lafferty, Métis fiddler in the Northwest Territories Richard Lafferty, […]

  • ring ring ring

    Geostationary Banana Over Texas.

  • the people at our local coffeehouse are weird

    i’m from the future Uploaded by mendel on 24 Dec ’06, 4.11pm EST.

  • An ague hath my ham

    For years I knew this as a bit of music-history xeroxlore. Only this year did I learn that it’s music-history xeroxlore by Ezra Pound. Who knew? Winter is icumen in, Lhude sing Goddamm, Raineth drop and staineth slop, And how the wind doth ramm! Sing: Goddamm. Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us, An ague hath my […]

  • Fox News in Bizarroworld

  • mommy, who’s Kibo?

    Something odd just occurred to me out of the blue. Now, Candice and I don’t want kids, but imagine a hypothetical couple online as much as we have been. IRC, LiveJournal, Usenet, flickr, and so on. That couple has kids. Ten years later or so, those kids will be able to search for what their […]