White Folks’ Subway
January 13, 2008I’m proud to have lived in three locations not on this map. Image!
Archive for January 2008
Washington Metro
January 11, 2008I thought I would share this Yelp.com review that I wrote for the WMATA. I was particularly inspired after calling four times today to fix a Smartcard problem and never being able to reach a human being: “You know, when I first moved here, I looked at the concrete archway stations and green/red lights that […]
Biden
January 10, 2008We’re now up to three Democrats who’ve dropped out — Bill Richardson having dropped yesterday, who was preceded by Chris Dodd and Joe Biden. So, I thought I’d state my preference now for Biden as Secretary of State should the next administration be Democratic. Biden is pretty high on himself — note how often he […]
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Cowher
January 9, 2008The big story around DC, in the wake of Joe Gibbs’ retirement, has been the search for a new Redskins coach. People are mentioning Russ Grimm and Jason Garrett, but the name that’s getting the biggest play is Bill Cowher. There were three subway workers sitting behind me on a bench today, and they were […]
New Hampshire
January 9, 2008Clinton’s win today is supposedly a shocking victory, but I had called that one in my work primary pool. (I also called Obama winning Iowa. What.) I think the “crying” episode put her over the top: humanization was clearly exactly what she needed. Speaking of that video, am I the only one who doesn’t think […]
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Guitar Hero III
January 8, 2008I don’t know how many of you have played the newest PS2 installment of Guitar Hero, but it has this horrible feature called Guitar Battle where you play against a boss and win by sabotaging the other dude’s guitar. (editor’s note: ?) Take the concept of fun, turn it upside down, and that’s pretty much […]
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Clever Photo Essay
January 7, 2008I’m not into pushing work projects on this site per se, but this photo essay is clever on the for real. Be sure to check out Darren Garnick’s effort to get his baby photographed with all the presidential candidates.
Sprint Bearded Dude Commercial
January 6, 2008There’s been this one ad on all the time during football this season, the one where the bearded dude is talking about how this Sprint service makes it seem like there are multiple copies of a person. It has lots of miniature copies of people running around. My question is, what is the bearded dude’s […]
Firefox
January 6, 2008Though I’m a huge Firefox booster, lately version 2.0.0.11 has been eating up virtual memory like a fat dude at a Louisiana Chinese buffet. And that’s both on my home PC (which is mad old) and work PC (which is still sorta old but faster, like Bruce Smith in his waning days.) Version 3.0, now […]
Nine Steelerless Months
January 6, 2008Time to become a full-time hockey fan again. I went in expecting an uphill battle for the Steelers, and by halftime was ready to turn the game off. Then they managed to get my hopes up just enough in the fourth quarter to make it that much more of a crushing blow. The 2007 Steelers: […]