Month: January 2004

I wrote my first Perl script today after three hours of fumbling around in a totally alien syntax. Score one for goal-directed action. I generally avoid Perl like the plague, but it was the only way I could find to do a bulk import into the MT email DB_File notify database. I’ve also written a…

If you’ve noticed how harsh I’ve been on Dean, you might think that I would be pleased to see him to go ape on national television. Not so – I’d rather see him run against Bush than any of the other leading candidate. Since they are all equally communist, I’d at least like to see…

It has come to my attention that I have more money in my bank account that any college student in his right mind should keep around. It’s not that I’m stingy, or that I don’t know what to get, but that there are so many things I want, that I don’t know where to start.…

Dean is taking grassroots to a whole new level: “Team Dean Racing“. In the words of Tim Blair, it’s “the only race vehicle in the world actually designed to spin.” I recently received an email (too long to show here) from a reader of my blog criticizing me from calling Dean a socialist. He gave…

After each full day of skiing during the last week, I recovered my body by exercising my mind – notably by reading The Ominous Parallels. Here is the review I submitted to Amazon.com afterwards: As a Jew, I have watched, read, and visited countless accounts of the Holocaust – but not one of them correctly…

Seatle Times: Streakers in a restaurant watch as their car is stolen.

I shredded, ripped, and tumbled down the black diamonds like mere bunny slopes (or was it the other way around?) and had an awesome time in Breckenridge. Check out the photos here – the film camera shots are coming soon.