Posts from 2006

How To Fly Without ID

I happen to be one of the (apparently very few) people in this country that has not only read the Constitution of the United States, but also understands it and — by gosh! — thinks it’s a pretty good way to run a country. So I tend to get really, really upset when presented with

#airports #security

Five Years

Now is a very good time to go and read what I wrote five years ago. And when you’re done with that, go watch Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment on 9/11. [link via letsgetnuts]

#9-11

Learning to Golf

In which I become addicted to golf

#california #family #florida #golf #las vegas #nike #rhode island #sports #travel #william gagne

Media Bonanza

If you’ve never seen Midnight Run, I’m here to tell you it’s a pretty damn good movie. Charles Grodin always cracks me up. I am way behind on my media consumption this month. There’s the five most recent episodes of Rescue Me and the last two episodes of Entourage waiting on my TiVo. I’ve been

#books #lists #movies #reading

Unbearable Pain

Imagine an uppercase U. A big U. Look at it from above. Let’s pretend that this U is your tongue. Now let’s pretend that you are in an airplane over the Gulf of Mexico and you’re happily eating some pumpkin seeds and reading the issue of Wired with Stephen Colbert on the cover and you

Hollywood Minute

Here’s something that’s been nagging at me lately: Why don’t you ever see commercials for fruits and vegetables? I realize that apples and bananas and squash aren’t really all that sexy, and the mega-corporations that sell them all — Dole, etc. — do some vague advertising for their processed products (like OJ and pineapple chunks).

#bananas #food

Click Install

Reason #4,213 Why People Get Frustrated with Microsoft:

#bugs #microsoft #software