The Drake arises
January 19, 2005
Congratulations to Dean and Rosemary Esmay on the birth of their healthy baby, Draco.
Sign of life
January 19, 2005
Ah yes, I’m decloaking for the moment to give a heads-up to all the dear friends who still drop by and wonder what’s been happening with me. I’ve been quite occupied with work, and also quality time with friends who matter more than blogging. The old design is back in its third iteration, with the… Continue reading this entry
Days of rest and thunder
January 11, 2005
I’ve been away for a while, taking care of personal stuff and what not. I am not dead, but I have my priorities too. Besides, it’s January and everything political seems so… unimportant these days. I’ll be back in about a week or so, possibly with a redesign bringing back the third iteration of one… Continue reading this entry
Stone soup and home cookin’
January 7, 2005
When Prof. Glenn Reynolds wrote about his lamb stew, I was one of the many who wrote in for the recipe. Surely, he is not a celebrity chef, and the idea of him cooking good ol’ home cookin’ appeals to my sense that the man is, well, a man, and not a blogging automaton. All… Continue reading this entry
Honesty in art
January 7, 2005
I just got a hold of two Guster albums, Keep It Together and Lost And Gone Forever, from a friend. I’ve heard of the band before but never got around to listening to anything they’ve done until last night. Theirs is a sound whose genre I couldn’t place, though they strike me as a less… Continue reading this entry
Empire: Pathos
January 6, 2005
Taken while walking from the WW2 memorial to the Korean War Memorial in Washington, D.C.
A stern warning
January 6, 2005
Politicians know that they must maintain a degree of the public trust, enough to win votes during election cycles. It’s called political capital, and Senators Boxter and Reid, Democrats of California and Michigan respectively, are about to sacrifice all of it that they hold not just for themselves but for their party. Believe you me,… Continue reading this entry
Triage
January 5, 2005
I’ll forgo what I feel about this, and just let out what I think, Devil be damned: When a Carroll County, Md., high school had an emergency evacuation, everyone got out except for two students who were confined to wheelchairs. They were abandoned in the stairwell on the second floor. WBAL-TV in Baltimore said there… Continue reading this entry
Trackback vandalism
January 5, 2005
ATTN: WordPress users who still don’t have some sort of anti-spam measure RE: Today’s trackback vandalism spam attack Everything you need to know, courtesy of Matt Mullenweg. Pings are closed for the time being, and if I go ahead and install Spam Karma I may have to close all comments before doing so. Pardon my… Continue reading this entry
All the rules, or none of them.
January 3, 2005
So says “jizzler,” a Fark commenter on this thread. Farkers’ own summary: Catholics in hysterics as boy with gay parents allowed to enroll in school. Superintendent says he could kick kid out but kids whose parents were divorced, used birth control, or married outside church would have to go with him Damn right.