Slate links of the day

broderic on March 26, 2008

There's a veritable set of good reads over on slate.com today. Or I
think they are because I read them and was moved to provide a link. Hotel Hiroshima
http://www.slate.com/id/2187282/
It's a nice travel essay that should fit into one of those travel essay
anthologies I read every year. Makes me want to go out to Japan. (Of
course, School Rumble does the same!)The Architecture of Edward Hopper
http://www.slate.com/id/2187351/
A slide show of the buildings Hopper painted. Why didn't any one tell
me there was an exhibit of his in DC last year?The New New Deal
http://www.slate.com/id/2187039/
Capitalism is being saved by a 30s era government thinking. Socialism
for the rich?

I’m just a caveman

broderic on March 26, 2008

How do you use bittorrent? I don’t get it.

I’m trying to download something and it coming down in dribbles.

Now I now that I’m just getting bytes at a time, but can’t it serve up or down load quicker.

It looks as if I have several others to share from, but it ain’t working.

I wish I new how to run these torrent clients better…

The end

broderic on March 21, 2008

Finished up the first season of School Rumble. I have lots of thoughts about it and watching and waiting. Here’s some wallpaper for you to enjoy.

The Insanity of the Office Pool

broderic on March 20, 2008

The annual rite of spring, the NCAA office pool, has come. Just like the annual swallows returning to Capistrano, every year millions are bet on these 33 college basketball games. It’s dumb and amusing and you’ll always lose. I guarantee it.

I got Memphis over Kansas in the finals, 74 to 68, with NC and Duke rounding out the final four. Why do I keep picking these losers? As long as Memphis takes it, I think I can get some money. I don’t know anything about the college game today, so that I don’t have to worry about analysis of what teams are good. I’m just picking, because every thing is a push.

Go Memphis! (I have no idea where that school is or even if they are any good.)

Chubby rain

broderic on March 14, 2008

This will be crazy. The iPhone track alone will be f’ing packed like sardines, because aren’t they supposed to release iPhone 2.0 around this time?

Remind me again why I work at IniTech.

Green and lean

broderic on March 14, 2008

This is nice thing to hear about. Oregon representative Earl Blumenauer introduces some resolution to aid in making bicycling a viable means of transportation in the US.

We need some of this type of stuff so that a)we begin to mitigate our reliance on gasoline, b)we offer ourselves an alternative means of transportation, c) we give ourselves some exercise to win our own fat war, and d)we make nicer communities.

Yo, CapitolSwell! Get to work!

Recent Keyword Activity for March 2008

broderic on March 13, 2008

It’s always good for a post to check referers. I’ll just pick the recent ones and comment. Simple and effective. Plus then I start my own google bomb to get these to the top. Very self-referential and weird!

NY escort kottke: Must be wondering what kottke thinks about Gov. Spitzer resigning or even looking for some special service.

apple unboxing: Looking for some great computer porn.

oksana akinshina naked: What’s a week without this search term?

when love is unrequited the whole world is crap: Searches for NewsRadio quotes drive traffic here.

doobie keebler: ditto

ellen page show me love: Is she making the English remake? I hope she isn’t? She’s too sassy for an Agnes.

cool lamp shades: I keep meaning to get me some.

8-bit video game music: Sounds cool!

negative about monte pego: Can’t think of any. Oh, here’s one: it’s too far away right now. Darn.

That’s it for today. There’s no naked Oksana Akinshina here! Look for Oksana Akinshina naked here!