Entries from April 2005

Interrogated by stuff

Date April 26, 2005

I posted a while back about
my frustration dealing with iTunes. The same goes for the Tivo2Go service, which makes me enter a password each time I watch a show in digital format. I truly resent having to prove myself to my stuff each time that I am, indeed, allowed to use it.
Well, in the [...] Read more »

Rock disappointment

Date April 24, 2005

So we went to a show by “these people”:http://www.intergem.net/ in Baltimore today, and what a disappointment that was. “The Elf”:http://www.elfnoodles.com/ and I like to look in rock shops and collect tumbled stones and nice crystal samples, but there really isn’t much of that around here. We were hoping this “Gem and Jewelry” show would have [...] Read more »

Word confusion

Date April 20, 2005

Surfing blogs more or less randomly, I see a lot of confused conservative webloggers. At first, I thought they didn’t understand what “communism” and “socialism” are. And then I thought they were intentionally framing the far more general “liberal” as communism and socialism in order to demonize liberals. But now I’m beginning to think [...] Read more »

Pope

Date April 19, 2005

So, I’m disappointed in the choice of Pope, of course, but the refrain I’m hearing of “he won’t live long enough to matter” makes me a little uncomfortable and I’ve heard enough about his so-called “Nazi” past to make me not want to jump to conclusions there. Being forced into membership with the Nazi Youth [...] Read more »

New review!

Date April 19, 2005

There’s a review for the 1981 special effects extravaganza “_Dragonslayer_”:http://www.anvilandsprocket.com/review.php?rec=161 on the Anvil & Sprocket.
Speaking of dragons, I hear the hate-mongering, terrorist-sympathizing bride-of-Skeletor Ann Coulter is upset that so many liberals are uncivil towards her. Of course, this is coming from someone who has said the best way to talk to a liberal is [...] Read more »