Earlier this evening, The Maternal Unit was looking over my shoulder as I was reading User Friendly, and was astonished to see an ad for a geek dating network ( Read more... )

I have had this thought on many, many occasions throughout my life. I just don't say it out loud, ever, for this reason. Also, when I was a child, it usually scared me; I was never sure if at some point I was just going to lose it entirely and do something, completely without thinking, that would get me either incarcerated or institutionalized. It ( Read more... )

Some thoughts from the bobsled competition ( Read more... )

I love to watch speed skating. Really, it's like track and field on ice. And it has the distinction of being one of the only race sports that is truly elegant.

Short track speed skating is not. It is fundamentally not very different from roller derby.

A belated Merry Christmas and an on-time Happy 2010 to everyone! I just returned from a trip to visit The Matriarch in New Jersey. I may write more about this later. Right now, I am feeling intensely the effects both of bronchitis and a week of very little sleep (I swear, my grandmother's guest beds are made of concrete).

January: On Addictions ( Read more... )

So, last Sunday, I saw this RV trundling down the Southwest Freeway just outside Downtown, covered in Bible verses, with a message that the end of the world was coming, on May the twentysomethingeth, 2011, and that we should "Read the Scriptures".

Issue 1: Ok, I did go read some Scriptures. Why don't you try this one on for size? Mark 13:32-33, in ( Read more... )

You know, I think my single greatest exposure to classical music, as a child, was Looney Tunes.

When I was a freshman in college, a friend of mine said, "Never drink to forget about a girl. It makes her fucking omnipresent." He was right. It turns out, though, that the truth of this maxim is not limited strictly to relationships; it is also true for problems. Mind you, I'm not drinking to forget anything; I'm drinking because I bought a ( Read more... )

The next trend is looming on the horizon.

( Ian's take )

It happened again.

This time, it was actually really funny. The man was not American; I think he was from Pakistan. I didn't even have a chance to say a single word to him before he asked. His first guess was that I was French, but this was quickly amended to Dutch.

I am a gaijin everywhere.