Saluting Back...

I'm sure by now, most of you have seen the One Fingered Victory Salute that Bush gave during a pre-broadcast interview... Daily Kos put together this clip Salute Back in response.

Shopping online

It's been a while since I've purchased anything online, especially since I've moved to one of the shopping capitols of the world. But I was browsing around online after an aborted shopping excursion to two different stores, and after reading around I ended up buying something that I otherwise would have never considered purchasing... but it was all told over 60% cheaper than the solution I was originally contemplating...

Responses to reality....

Cartoon Central's own reality TV cartoon: Drawn Together. Not quite as cool as the lie girls....

Two chance Buffy encounters...

Yesterday, while watching a documentary about the work of an artist with spina bifida, I noticed that she had an entire shelf full of Buffy and Angel dvds... and then today, I was trying to figure out whether or not Vegcity will ever reopen... and stumbled across Buffy wallets!

Trying to get my day started...

But instead of working on various application that I have to get done, I am watching Broadband TV from Taiwan, France, and China...

Wow...

The "spiritual pain of a pharmacist" prevents him from fulfilling his job duties.

Size does matter

Go and see a film about it.

Classic procrastination...

I should be reading Foucault's History of Sexuality Volumes 1 & 2 and writing a paper about them, and when I'm done with that paper, I should read two ethnographies and write a comparison about that... but what am I doing? Tracking down fat-positive(ish) foamy the squirrel cartoons on the internet. Enjoy fatkins and jiggly.

Cool Movies...

I think I really want to go and watch The Forgotten... there has been a spate of new movies that have come out but I've been way to busy to even begin contemplate going to the movies.

The obits..

We know that Derrida died last week. But those who have been following the New York Times also know about the furor over the obituary written by Jonathan Kandell for Derrida (all's I got to say after reading it is that I hope he doesn't write my obituary when I die). But good ol' Butler wrote a scathing letter to the editor that starts: Jonathan Kandell's vitriolic and disparaging obituary of Jacques Derrida takes the occasion of this accomplished philosopher's death to re-wage a culture war that has surely passed its time.  Why would the New York Times assign the obituary to someone whose polemics are so unrestrained and intellectual limitations so obvious? Whereas Yves-Alain Bois starts his letter: Topping the usually Philistine relationship of the Times to just about everything academic, and its habit of entrusting the composition of obituaries to overt opponents of the deceased supposed to be memorialized, the article by a Jonathan Kandell on Jacques Derrida, who died this past Friday, reaches a peak of populist anti-intellectualism--not to speak of the countless distortions it contains--that I thought only possible in a Murdoch publication. There is a petition to the editors of the Times about how it "has done its readers an injustice in publishing such a dismissive article as its official obituary".

Why backups are important...

From a Craigslist ad:

Chapter I, "Disaster"

So the story is, as careful diligent Craig'slisters will have read in the lost-and-found section, my wife was mugged at knife point by a caucasian male, early 40s, who was lying in wait in a maroon mini-van at about 8:00 in the evening around September 16 in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn. He wrested her bag from her; she screamed, the neighborhood converged on him, but he got away.

So, in the bag: our Ibook, which had my wife's PHD THESIS ON IT! Family photos! Et cetera!

Word of the disaster spreads.

Chapter II

We scrape together some cash, including a gift from my Tante Judith, and invest in a new 12" Ibook. We beef-up the specifications, thinking, what the hell, let's take care of ourselves, let's go for it, submit an order at apple.com, and start a period of EAGER ANTICIPATION.

Chapter III, "The Mysterious Package."

Shorlty thereafter, a package arrives. But it's a 12" Powerbook. Not what we ordered. Hmm... Turns out, my best friend Dave, who's DOING PRETTY WELL, I guess, and has just had a child, and so is FEELING MAGNAMINOUS, has purchased a computer for us. Oh my gosh, Dave, thanks. It's a wonderful life!

Chapter IV, "We Need to Sell this Ibook"

The Ibook arrived today. We can't return it, Apple tells us, apologetically, because it's a "custom order."

Fake news broadcasts...

I don't remember hearing about the federal investigators looking into how the Bush administration created fake news that was to be distributed to local television stations at all last spring. Apparently TV news reports in America that showed President George Bush getting a standing ovation from potential voters have been exposed as fake, it has emerged. The US government admitted it paid actors to pose as journalists in video news releases sent to TV stations intending to convey support for new laws about health benefits. From an article in the Guardian as the New York Times piece has expired:

I got a new chair!

After keeping an eye on craigslist for a week or so, I got a new chair! It was quite the bargain considering how much these chairs usually go for. Comfortable me :)