Ugggh! I shouldn’t make lunch when I am in a hurry; I ended up choosing a chocolate-chip bagel for this afternoon’s turkey sandwich. I thought they were raisins. If I weren’t so hungry right now, I’d turn thisIt could have been worse — I could have selected the moldy bagel. Mmmmm!- chocolate and turkey. Anybody […]
Hokay now . . . I’ve downloaded and configured MT-Blacklist, so comments are once again moderated but do not require sign-in. This is a good thing, right? Too bad my ISP doesn’t use the right PERL modules; I would love to be able to have MT-B update itself automatically. Hmmm . . . I wonder […]
Well dang. I didn’t realize there was a Howard Stern movie called Private Parts. So, do I change my site name, or what? I guess I’ll wait until someone notices my site, and in the meantime I can try to think of something else catchy to play off of Oliphant Parts. Like maybe “Nathan’s Tirades”, […]
So, it is Monday again. What is happening today? I made the mistake of watching C-SPAN last night and was subjected to Rush Limbaugh, but I will get to that later. I see Condoleeza Rice is not getting an early Senate confirmation hearing. Now that’s interesting. I think I will deal with that later. Ah!- […]
So, I watched National Treasure the other night. For those of you who haven’t seen the EXCITING PREVIEWS!!!, it is the story of Nicholas Cage as Intrepid Hero (a.k.a Benjamin Franklin Gates), Justin Bartha (first seen in the cinematic masterpiece Gigli) as Amusing Sidekick (a.k.a. Riley something), Diane Kruger in the dual role of Hysterical […]
Okay, perhaps I am being a bit unfair to vermin in this comparison . . . Today I deleted 146 attempted comments to my blog. I’ve let the comments build up for almost 24 hours. Unlike a year ago, only one of those was from a drug pusher; the bulk were from poker sites. Texas […]
I said I’d write every day, didn’t I? Oh well — I also said I would brush and floss after every meal. That didn’t work out so well either (am I the only person whose dentist has said “Stop flossing so much!”?). Okay, it’s the day after Thanksgiving, and I am thankful that I will […]
This week marks the end of my great VOIP experiment. The promise was low rates, great service, a cool acronym, and hip technology. Vonage promised, but did not deliver. The technology sounds cool, but relies on an unreliable network. Most of the time it sounded like I was in an echo chamber. I could not […]
We are a nation at war. We are a nation at war with an enemy that hates everything about us. To them, we are an abomination. Our freedom, our free speech, our religious tolerance, our clarity: All obminations. They hate the fact that we offer equal rights for women and minorities. They hate our music, […]
I guess this means the elections are truly over: They’ve let Rumsfeld back out of the closet and onto the screen. Rummy’s back, providing the emphatic answer that he’s already answered the question, but to reiterate, we don’t know the answer to that. I love listening to him talk, especially when it starts sounding and […]
