Entries from March 2006

Guess Ten, Heavy Drinking Edition

Date March 17, 2006

I haven’t done as many of these; too busy on Fridays, strangely enough. But here you go. I give you the lyric, you give me the artist and track title.
# I want to get drunk and get her off of my mind.
# Count Five, “Psychotic Reaction” ["(: Tom :)":http://www.funnyfarmonline.org/] -I feel so lonely night [...] Read more »

Amongst are weaponry are such diverse elements as…

Date March 16, 2006

My wife “the Elf”:http://www.elfnoodles.com/ can spell “Albuquerque” on demand without looking it up and without writing it down.
She has never lived in New Mexico.
Boys and girls, that is _talent_. Read more »

Where are my representatives?

Date March 15, 2006

Atrios makes “some comments about religion”:http://atrios.blogspot.com/2006_03_12_atrios_archive.html#114235025556770982 and the so-called secular conspiracy to destroy it; he points out — yet again — that there are no “secularists” in Congress. You have to run on a religious platform to be elected at the national level.
The same is true, in fact, of many minority religions. It [...] Read more »

On keeping your domain names registered.

Date March 15, 2006

I think the “social bookmarking” service Magnolia is great; a definate improvement over del.icio.us. But today they demonstrate why letting other companies manage your data in a place you can’t access is such a bad idea.
They let their domain name expire. Now I can’t get to my bookmarks and I can’t tell you about [...] Read more »

Drupal is stupid

Date March 11, 2006

I like the content management system, but “Drupal.org’s”:http://www.drupal.org/ main site and the semi-Drupal-standard _Sands_ template for Drupal set all the body copy in italics.
Yeesh. “Get a clue”:http://www.thudfactor.com/textpattern/1367/fontist-ii.
*Update*: I may have to take it back. Is Bitstream-Vera-Sans supposed to be an italic font? Read more »