Well tomorrow is the first of August. Over on the right side of the international date line it already is. I’ve struggled to put my thoughts into words having now been back in the land of the fat women free and the home of the brave for almost 3 months.
Month: July 2008
My ideal Olympic moment..
Will be seeing a Chinese athlete make it to the finals of the 400, then in the finals ( with Hu Jintao watching) fall on his ass with 50 meters to go. As he looks up he will see an American, a Brit, a Japanese and a Korean cross the
Continue readingBatman does Wanchai…..
Wage slavery and other things have kept me busy. So tonight I treated myself to a movie and went to see the Dark Knight at the fancy movie theater-where you can buy beer and take it in with your popcorn. Nothing like a pint of Sam Adams while you munch
Continue readingNever write angry…..
Never write angry. Never write angry. Never, ever, write angry….. Otherwise the world ends up just like that one described by this guy. This post is dedicated to to all the learning impaired folks who just love to run opposing views into the ground. This no longer American beer is
Continue readingAll is well that ends well…….
Or so John McCain and his legions would have you believe. In a nutshell, the sycophants and the other McCain true believers would have you believe that just because things might actually be looking up in Iraq, that it somehow excuses every one of the blunders that were made getting
Continue readingThe Last Lecture…….
Randy Pausch died this weekend. I felt sad because I had the privilege of sitting down to read his book in Stanley Bay in Hong Kong only a short two and a half months ago. If there is one good thing about this that can be said-he has left a
Continue readingThe Station Cat
We were gone down south today driving down well past the lake and the towns below it. Just got back a little while ago. And when I sat down and surfed I discovered that the Wakayama station master cat-Tama-chan-got a raise of sorts. From Japan Probe: The Wakayama Electric Railway
Continue readingFour more years?
Of George Bush? Matthew Yglsieas has a great find: There’s an excellent piece by Elisabeth Bumiller in The New York Times which makes the point that one area in which Bush and McCain now differ is foreign policy. Specifically, Bush has — without explicitly admitting any errors — moved away
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When I was a boy, my father was lead electrical engineer at the Alcoa Headquarters in Alcoa. That meant he was involved in everything related to bringing power from various places to the South, East and West ALCOA plants that were in the city of Alcoa. I’m told Alcoa has
Continue readingLinks updated
Step 1 of updating links is complete-I have gone through and house cleaned my links and deleted dead ones. Step two will be to add new ones. You will also notice I added a couple of widgets. Construction continues.
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