Archive for August, 2007
Friday, August 31st, 2007
Some Current Faves
Passiveaggressivenotes.com
Exactly what it says. An entertaining view into the human psyche. Here’s a favorite.
They Might Be Giants – The Else
Their best album in years. I declare it super good. So good in fact that I downloaded it legally from emusic.com.
Parfait
Yogurt, fruit, and granola, in layers. Healthy never tasted so good. I like to mix it [...]
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Friday, August 31st, 2007
Sheet Metal Production in Maine…
The headline above is the entire content of a most entertaining bit of blog comment spam that I deleted this morning. Spam is a PITA but it’s nice when it makes me laugh. Most of the time it doesn’t though and I’m grateful for the weapon that I have to fight it.
Comment spam is similar [...]
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Change is Hard
All the more so when caffeine is involved.
My morning routine has been the same for a long time. Get up, drink two cups of coffee, go to work, and get breakfast at the staff cafeteria. This worked fine when I commuted by train because my empty stomach could more than handle the coffee. Not so [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Biking by thenextstopwillbe
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Ian McKellen + Ricky Gervais = Comedy Gold
Ricky Gervais, star of the British comedy The Office, has a relatively new comedy series on HBO called Extras. Ricky plays Andy Millman on the series who is, you guessed it, a movie extra. Each episode features a famous actor/actress that play themselves on the movie set that Ricky/Andy is an extra on. Guest stars [...]
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Friday, August 24th, 2007
The Word of the Day Is…
Fumid: contraction of the “F” word and humid.
Example: It was so fumid this morning on my commute that it compelled me to create a word to describe it and furthermore, blog about it.
On a more positive note, today marks a first for my bicycle commute since starting several months ago. I’ve been regularly commuting on [...]
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
Weird Queensborough Bridge Fact
My bicycle commute takes me across the Queensborough Bridge walk/bike path which runs alongside the bridge’s roadway. I recently noticed an unusual symmetry that I think bears mentioning. There are “gentlemen’s clubs” at both ends of the path, one in Long Island City in Queens and another on 60th Street in Manhattan. Weird, no? Even [...]
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Thursday, August 16th, 2007
Guest Post: Inclusion and listening…
A very sweet woman that I met in Ann Arbor writes:
“In 1001, the Pope crowned Stephen I, King of Hungary and Apostle. Stephen I wrote ten precepts on good governance for his son, one of which favored a certain form of interculturalism that is worth studying today. In his Brief Concerning the Institution [...]
