Entries from March 2003
A night of surreal sights and sounds
The Alamo Drafthouse was having a “stag night” downtown. Gwen and I thought this sounded like fun, so we hied ourselves on down. There were a couple layers of difference between what I was expecting and what we saw. I was expecting, you know, stag movies. Grainy black-and-white porno shorts where the guy’s eyes had [...]
Jennifer Government
Just finished reading Jennifer Government by Max Barry, a blackly satirical story that answers the musical question “what would happen if Ayn Rand had her way?” The book has inspired an online game and is evidently being adapted to the screen.
It would actually make a good comic book, and I don’t mean that in a [...]
CSS rant
CSS is great, but it’s too hard. When even the guy who wrote the books on CSS admits that it has “made the veins in my forehead throb”, you know there’s a problem.
All the stuff I’ve done on the web for the past year or so has been in CSS, and I’ve been gradually re-working [...]
Enchanted rock
Finally posted some pictures I shot on the trip Gwen and I took to Enchanted Rock on Sunday (login “adamguest”, password “adamguest”).
Wisteria
Had lunch with Gwen at Saltillo Plaza, the train station to nowhere on East 5th St. The place is going crazy with wisteria.
Backstabtastic
Halliburton got the contract for the initial rebuilding of Iraq. The Daily Show gives this the coverage (real video or quicktime) it deserves.
Imagine my surprise.
Microsoft’s slogan
Heard on NPR: “Your potential inspires us to create the software to help you reach it.” Or something like that. Microsoft’s bloatware philosophy applies to advertising, too.
Life During Wartime
The B-52s have been banned from MTV Europe. Now that’s just silly.
Cough, ahem
Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr is a local law firm with a name that sounds like a guy clearing his throat.
The bidding to rebuild Iraq has already begun
This New York Times article suggests that Gulf War II isn’t about oil as an end–it’s just a means to an end: to enrich American construction firms like, oh, Halliburton (Dick Cheney’s employer (note that I intentionally left out the word “former”)).
Let’s see if I’ve got this straight. We (for the purposes of this entry, [...]
