Archive for July, 2002

Two for Tuesday

Tuesday, July 30th, 2002

What’s the plural of advice? Anyway, here’s two of ‘em comin’ right at ya. Geek boy style.

The first one has to do with this god awful heat. And that is, quite simply, drink lots and lots of water. I know, it’s more trips to the bathroom but that’s the price one […]

Hornet’s Nest

Monday, July 29th, 2002

There resides above my door, in a crack between the molding of my house and the actual brick, a host of hornets who have decided to build their nest. Though I haven’t been bitten or otherwise bothered by the pests, I decided on a whim that today was their day to perish. It […]

Miners Alive

Sunday, July 28th, 2002

As a Pennsylvania resident, I am happy to relay the news tonight that all nine of the miners trapped in the Somerset coal mine are reported alive. If all continues to go well, they will be lifted out and decontaminated from potential environmental toxins and sent home to safety.

Old Hat Trick

Saturday, July 27th, 2002

My upgrade to Windows XP had been going fairly smoothly at work. I was even using a new Remote Desktop Client to connect from Mac OS X, which had been running without a hitch. But when it came time to use a certain program written in Java, life became unreasonably hard.

I knew that […]

Unsung

Wednesday, July 24th, 2002

Call Julian Cope what you want. Ex-junkie. Brief alternative 80’s scene wash up. Psychedellic rock trip-out space poet. Social activist. Artistic snob. Prehistoric scholar of pagan Europe. And how could I forget his simple self-proclamation of a “forward thinking mutherfucker.”

Truth is, a lot of people in the states probably […]