30 September 2004 [Thursday] @ 11:05 am
We’re just now emerging from the remnants of Ivan, so it’s the first rain-free day in a while. The morning is sunny, and seasonably mild. I arrive at the bus stop, still bleary and not yet awake. I’m standing beneath a small maple, beside which is a newspaper box for the Somerville Journal. Someone has taken a Sharpie and written on top of the lemon-yellow box:
remember what inspires you
So I start trying to remember when my attention is pulled to the street by a white older-model VW Golf taking a sharp turn off the main thoroughfare …
30 September 2004 [Thursday] @ 9:34 am
a mother’s tears
RealVoices.org is a non-profit organization composed of family members of those killed in Iraq and they’re about to start airing spots - just people talking about what it’s like to lose someone, it looks like. At the site you can see one of these spots (.wmv) if you follow the link.
Oh, and they’re endorsing Kerry.
Boston Globe article here. And don’t miss Military Families Speak Out either.
27 September 2004 [Monday] @ 11:58 pm
if i may
Uh…excuse me… but um… could someone please explain to me how we as a nation/culture/people/nationalistic cult got so darned hung up on money? I mean, why money? And why so much trust, love, hope, faith, emotion, yearning on something so fickle, so insubstantial, so fleeting, so impermanent, so not nearly real as MONEY? I mean what is it? It’s a complex system of numbers. Admittedly, some of these numbers are occasionally backed up by something you can trade for other things, sometimes money’s “backed up” by, say, gold, but I mean come on. Gold’s just a rock somebody found in the ground. Maybe there’s not a lot of gold and that would seem to suggest that it’s valuable, but when it comes right down to it, it’s just a useless, functionless, dumb stone.
27 September 2004 [Monday] @ 10:57 am
mission accomplished, and that’s an order
In a surprise reversal of business-as-usual, Bush stands firm on his May 2003 aircraft carrier “Mission Accomplished” speech, in spite of the loss of 900 American lives since then. I can almost hear him now…. That was a different mission, then, that I was then talking about. We are on a new mission, confronting new enemies in a new world at a new time. These enemies are worse and unknown and that makes them worser than the known that we knew of before. …
24 September 2004 [Friday] @ 10:12 pm
omphalos tweaks
Well, I just finished some small but significant improvements to the links section of this site:
1. RSS now much friendlier. The links in your aggregator will now point to the correct permalink for an entry, AND the entry link will now be followable from within your aggregator. I know: it’s embarassing that this wasn’t working before.
2. Default archives are now by day, rather than what they were before which was nothing short of majorly fuxx0red.
3. Some of the javascript warn’t workin’ rahght, but now it’s all good.
Still work to do, but that’s good enough …
22 September 2004 [Wednesday] @ 9:23 pm
heads up
Starting tomorrow, we’re going to do something a little different. The Samizdat section will host a series of four daily entries detailing the events leading up to my wedding of nearly 3 weeks ago. Pictures! Tongue-in-cheek observations! Poignant professions of love and awe! Keep your browser tuned…. and check in every day through Sunday to get the full scoop, day by day. Three weeks late, sure, but, still, day by day!
UPDATE 09.26.04: Day 4 (the Big Day!) is up!
UPDATE 09.25.04: Day 3 is up!
UPDATE 09.24.04: Day 2 is up!
UPDATE 09.23.04: Day …
21 September 2004 [Tuesday] @ 8:44 pm
attention internet
If you surf any of the sites I do, you’ve no doubt come across the above photo. It’s been on the Daypop top 10 for most of the past week. Well, listen up, people: it’s a fake.
Don’t take my word for it, though.
Sorry, just had to get that off my chest.
17 September 2004 [Friday] @ 2:23 pm
bob dylan help?
Now don’t use Google: isn’t there a Bob song that goes something something…’were they always this lame?’ Or something something… ‘is it always this lame?’
I think he’s talking about someone’s party or parties, and I think there’s piano, and I know it’s pre-motorpsycho accident.
Anyone? Bueller?
15 September 2004 [Wednesday] @ 5:06 pm
omphalos
Well, there’s still lots of work to do on it, but I’ve opened up the final section of the website, my page for the webtastical links I find every day. Some posts will be there just cuz I think they’re cool, but mostly I’ll be posting stuff that I think will be of general interest.
Note especially that the RSS doesn’t work so great yet.
I aim to update it every day, and I do aim to update samizdat weekly again, now that wedding stuff isn’t occupying so very much of my time.
And yes, the Illustrated Wedding Story …
12 September 2004 [Sunday] @ 11:20 pm
rough draft
Well, I’ve finished a rough draft of the story of our wedding and the few days leading up to it. It is my intention to post the full thing here in html format with links and plenty of pictures, but that’s not going to happen tonight.
Here’s a pdf of the rough draft, text only, with Gwen’s annotations in blue.
You can download it and read it now, or you can wait a couple days til I’m all multimedia n shit.
(PS: by the way, there will likely be a few changes before the final draft goes up - it’s late …
