Archive for December, 2005

This is not rex’s world

I noticed in my Google Analytics reports that I got a recent and large surge in traffic from a site called CyberSocketWebAwards.com (nsfw). Now that site is apparently a gay porn awards site, so I was a bit confused as to why they’d be linking to me. I’m flattered to be considered for […]

Houston, we have a microwave

I’m so terribly pleased with myself–today I installed the over-the-range microwave oven. Of course I won’t dwell on the fact I actually bought the microwave last week, so it has taken me quite some time to get the job done.
I spent Saturday carving out the opening in the cabinet for the new electrical outlet. […]

Feeling the winter blues

I can be more than a little moody. I don’t think I quite qualify as bipolar. The pendulum that is my mood certainly swings back and forth but I don’t think it has the ferocity or range of a true bipolar person. But in a way that makes it even harder to […]

Ben Affleck is a father

Lord help us all, Ben Affleck is now somebody’s Dad. Luckily the Mom is Jennifer Garner, so the kid has some good genetic material to work with.
I’m surprised they picked such a pedestrian name as “Violet” for their daughter. I thought these Hollywood types always picked bizarre names, like how David Duchovny and […]

What if a government collapses and nobody cares?

So apparently the Canadian government failed a no-confidence vote earlier this week and has been forced to call new elections in January. The funny thing is, nobody apparently cares.
At least not here in the US–the automated algorithm that picks the “hot” stories for the front door of Google News never put the Canadian government […]