Archives for Category: Rants

Slacker...

June 27, 2008

Excuses include the usual: hectic work schedule, rock in my shoe, and I just got back from vacation to San Diego. As I’m currently plowing through my 256 unread items in NetNewsWire, I was came up with the following question: is there a way to filter out all iPhone-related posts?

Better To Be Thought a Fool...

April 27, 2008

…then write a blog post and remove all doubt. A few weeks ago, Tom Engelhardt wrote an article for The Nation about the employment of air power in the war on terrorism. I read it, got seriously pissed and then let it sit. I went back and read it again.

Chickenhawks

April 14, 2008

Matthew Yglesias trots out the old chickenhawk argument, calling out John McCain, among others, because his daughter is not in the military. He neglects to mention that McCain has a son in the Marines that just returned from Iraq and another son at the Naval Academy, to say nothing of

Yawn

July 23, 2007

Recent events have caused me to modify my ongoing list of things I really don’t care about. Here is the current Top 5: Actually, anything remotely related to the iPhone Hacking the iPhone David Beckham (although if you add his wife, he bumps up a spot) Anything relating to any

Profile in Courage Nominee

May 1, 2007

I have written here before, in a blog post long since gone, about my utter disdain for Rage Against the Machine. Aside from the fact that their music pretty much sucks, my main beef is that they are a bunch of poseurs. I’ll buy their tired, ‘workers of the world

The Cool Table in the Cafeteria

March 8, 2007

If I could only read one blog a day, it would be John Gruber’s Daring Fireball. It’s the place for all things related to The Company Formerly Known As Apple Computer. But today he posted an entry that follows an irregular-but-no-less annoying pattern, which can be summarized as such: I’m

Today’s Checklist

March 7, 2007

Me: Sick The Lovely Wife: Also Sick My 11-month old son: Yep, sick too Amount of Fun Being Had: More than I can handle.

Not A Sports Guy

March 4, 2007

For the longest time, I have prided myself on my almost total apathy for professional sports. The one sport I get up for is college football, and everything that is good about it (the rivalries, the traditions, stadiums packed with 80–100,000 fans) does not exist in the NFL. The NBA?