I was writing something completely unrelated and having nothing to do with this, when a stray thought led me to look up Heloise and Abelard in Wikipedia. Well. Let me tell you something. It turns out that the practice of celebrities giving their children ridiculous names (Apple, Moon Unit, Dweezil, and Kal-fucking-El fairly spring to mind) is actually a tradition dating back at least a thousand years: Heloise and Abelard, themselves at least as enamored with the Lux Rationis et Scientiae as with one another named their poor, illegitimate child, I am so not making …

I just wanted to make sure none of you missed this account of a man who was beaten and arrested by the police he was trying to photograph while they were in the act of making an arrest. To the readers in Florida: did any of this make the news. I mean, I’m not naive enough to believe this sort of thing doesn’t happen all the time, but I’m just curious to know if it’s a big deal down there at all.  Say… the same way freaky LEDs are a big deal here in Boston? Or is it all …

I don’t think I know a single woman who wouldn’t be a shoo-in for Inkling Magazine’s “She’s Such A Geek” photo contest. Deadline is February 28th, ladies and geeks.

Pandemonium Books is a-fixin’ to go belly-up. Maybe you’re a former resident of the area who remembers the awesome science fiction bookstore that used to be in Harvard Square’s Garage, maybe you’re just a SF/Fantasy enthusiast who doesn’t want to see as rara an avis as a brick-and-mortar science-fiction specialty store close its doors, maybe you’re an Elder God who doesn’t want to see one of the last doorways into the World of Man shut with the irrevocable finality of Doom itself, or maybe your motives are just plain inscrutable, but whatever the case, if you don’t want …

This one’s especially for the fickle attentions of The Gackinator. I just discovered that there’s a module I can add to my NetVibes page (which is also my home page) which allows me to subscribe to any calendar in iCal format, namely, my Google Calendar. I use NetVibes to manage my various to-do lists, and having my daily agenda there is just the diggity bomb.

Oh…. you just WISH your life was as cool and volcanically exciting as mine, don’t you.

I wouldn’t call myself a hater so much as just plain disappointed, not like say, the_lex (see comments), but it seems that the_lex and I fall into either of the two camps arising now in the blogosphere in response to her long-awaited TV show finally being about to hit the airwaves: you can either not like her anymore, or you just plain never liked her to begin with.

Seeing such a similar notion expressed by someone I’ve never heard of reminds me that my own observation was prompted by seeing a pretty atrociously bad commercial for her …

Latest search term that brought some eager nihilist to my page:“how to put yourself in a coma”. Great new tagline though… “THORNOGRAPHY: how to put yourself in a coma”. Great, now I’m probably going to be the #1 search result for that in a couple weeks. Fucking great.

[because i've been asked and anticipate being asked again]

While some privacy concerns have been raised, I’ve finally made the switch to Google Calendar. Where I work, we use (or are strongly encouraged to use) Oracle Calendar, which has both a Web interface and desktop clients for the three major platforms. The prescribed method is generally useful across the few thousand employees we have here, because it allows for sharing of calendars, resource allocation (booking a conference room), and group calendaring. For what it is, it’s great.

But it also has a few problems:
1) Incomplete adoption. Lots of …

I’m…really starting to worry about her. Am I the only one? Everything she does now embarasses me. From where I’m shitting, I mean, sitting, she, like, hit the top of her game, then leapt off the mountain. Seriously, do any of you think that anything she’s done since the stand-up and radio stuff has been anything but, well, precious, even from some perspectives, the exact opposite of what was so great about her before anyone heard of her? I feel like I’m blaspheming here, and I apologize if this offends you, but, let’s face it, something has happened …

Wouldn’t that be fun?