Thursday 30 Aug 2007 1 comment
From Wikipedia:
Insomnia can be common after the loss of a loved one,
even months or a year after the death, if they are not grieving
correctly (pretending they are over it when they are not).
If only my dead friends would start grieving correctly,
maybe I could get a good night's sleep.
Wednesday 29 Aug 2007 4 comments
Two years ago,
I wrote about
a proposal to outlaw sagging
pants in Virginia. That didn't go into effect, if I remember
correctly--but since
then, Delcambre, Louisiana
has adopted
this ordinance:1
It shall be unlawful for any person in any public place or in view
of the public to be found in a state of nudity, or partial nudity,
or in dress not becoming to his or her sex, or in any indecent
exposure of his or her person or undergarments, or be guilty of
any indecent or lewd behavior.
Not becoming to his or her sex--says who? Can men can be busted
for wearing silk?
How much exposure of undergarments is indecent, anyway. The waistbands
of mine show sometimes; does that count?
Man, some laws are vague. Senator Larry
Craig pled
guilty to disorderly conduct2 as follows:
... I did the following: Engaged in conduct which I knew or
should have known tended to arouse alarm or resentment
or [sic] others which conduct was physical (versus verbal) in nature.
Craig now says he's innocent, he says the guilty plea was a mistake.
He was arrested on June 11 and pled guilty on August 1; he'd had time
to think it over.
Glenn Greenwald has
a great
essay about how rightie blogs have reacted to the Larry Craig story.
1. Several other municipalities in Louisiana have
enacted similar
ordinances.
2. The
full statute:
609.72 DISORDERLY CONDUCT.
Subdivision 1. Crime. Whoever does any of the
following in a public or private place, including on a school bus, knowing,
or having reasonable grounds to know that it will, or will tend to,
alarm, anger or disturb others or provoke an assault or breach of
the peace, is guilty of disorderly conduct, which is a misdemeanor:
...
(3) Engages in offensive, obscene, abusive, boisterous,
or noisy conduct or in offensive, obscene, or abusive language tending
reasonably to arouse alarm, anger, or resentment in others.
A person does not violate this section if the person's disorderly conduct
was caused by an epileptic seizure.
3. There is no reference to a footnote 3, but as long as you're
reading the fine print: I've noticed that Google Maps no longer gives driving
directions from New York to Paris
like it
used to.
Tuesday 28 Aug 2007 comment?
I woke up at 3:19 this morning and went outside to look at the eclipse.
It was raining, there was lightning nearby, but the sky to the south was
clear and the moon was on display.
Two rare events at once: an eclipse, and water falling out of the sky.
Saturday 25 Aug 2007 comment?
It rained today, hard enough to make rocks slide down the hillside onto the
switchbacks of Horseshoe Meadows Road while a bud and I were driving home
from an afternoon in the mountains; I had him get out of the car, in the
pouring rain, to move rocks--some about the size of bowling balls--out of
our way, all the while watching other rocks rolling down toward us.
Other than that, it was a simple, pleasant afternoon.
Thursday 23 Aug 2007 comment?
From a Namibian
AIDS prevention pamphlet:
Sex is probably the most intimate and
private thing that two people can do together.
"probably" (it's a toss-up between sex and rock climbing)
If you are bored, lonely or in need of sex (Ngele Wahala iipala) play cards,
football or pool, read this book, exercise, discuss with friends or sleep.
...or OGC.
Wednesday 22 Aug 2007 1 comment
Emoticon, not an
acronym: OGC
what do you think it depicts?
(see today's
Dinosaur Comics for the answer)
Sunday 19 Aug 2007 3 comments
The pic to the right (larger
version here) is five years old; the shirt, which I'd dyed
to get the peach color I wanted, has since faded a bit.
So, I was walking on the street in Vegas yesterday, wearing that shirt,
and a scruffy street-persony person passed by and asked, "Where's your
boyfriend," i.e., you must be a fag to be wearing a shirt that color.
Dweezil Zappa's concert last was great.
When I got back to my car after the show, I found that someone had parked
another NSX in front of mine, nose-to-nose, as if to keep my car company.
I asked my car what it and the other NSX had done to pass the time while I
was gone, but it didn't say a word. What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
I was gonna try climbing at Mt. Charleston in Nevada today, but I
didn't feel up to it and came home instead.
It was only 112°F in Death Valley around noon.
I passed by that "removel" sign on the way home; it's been replaced
with one that's spelled right.
Saturday 18 Aug 2007 1 comment
I like economy of expression, in any medium.
I'm especially impressed
by good interviewers. If the goal is to not say much--that is,
to let the person being interviewed do most of the talking--whatever
commentary the interviewer wants to offer needs to be short and to the point.
To be concise on the spot--that's a skill.
Herewith, two fun examples of short responses.
From a 1978 interview in Playboy magazine:
Anita Bryant: | Why
do you think the homosexuals are called fruits? It's because they eat the
forbidden fruit of the tree of life. God referred to men as trees, and
because the homosexuals eat the forbidden fruit, which is male sperm...
There is even a Jockey short called Forbidden Fruit. Very subtle. Did you
know that? | Playboy: | No.
We've heard only of Fruit of the Loom. |
A 9-second excerpt from NPR: (more
at Language
Log)
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