You know what I love? When people I used to date do awesome things—like, for example, launching a local citizen journalism site that then gets bought out for a tidy sum by the incumbent newspaper in the city it covers. Not, mind you, because I am a big-hearted person who takes intrinsic joy in their […]

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I’ve been memed! As Yglesias points out, “five things most people don’t know about you” is a bit ambiguous. If “most people” is constrained even as loosely as “most readers of this blog,” then that’ll be pretty much everything wide of my political views and maybe musical taste. If it’s meant to mean “most people […]

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So, I’ve had my primary laptop chugging away with Disk Warrior (booted from CD) trying to fix a hosed 150g external drive for something like 11 days now. It’s up to over 6,600 “overlapped files” found, but gives no hint of how much of the drive it’s actually checked. Any tech gurus out there have […]

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After last week’s elections, I wrote a tongue-in-cheek post at Hit and Run suggesting there was something heartwarming about a picture of Rick Santorum’s young daughter bawling at the result—the headline, as South Park fans will recognize, cribbed from Eric Cartman’s sadisitic gloat in the episode “Scott Tenorman Must Die” (video). This not only prompted […]

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So, a confession. Readers who’re convinced that my dislike for President Bush automatically makes me a Democrat anyway will probably be unsurprised by this, but I think I just had the first experience of genuine solidarity with a major-party electoral victory of my adult life. On the way home from watching the results, in a […]

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Photos from this year’s Halloween party are starting to come in. Check ’em out, and be sure to tag yours “partyofdeath” if you have any of your own. Favorite moment of the party (that I recall) incidentally, involved chatting with a girl dressed as David Bowie’s “Aladdin Sane” (one of two Aladdin Sanes, oddly enough), […]

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So, being a huge Halloween geek, I’m often willing to put in more effort than makes any real sense on assembling a costume. This year’s required sending a jacket to a tailor in Baltimore, who made the alterations I needed and sent it back via USPS “Priority Mail” a week ago. Baltimore, for those of […]

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So, I’m not superstitious, but someone broke in very early this morning, making off with my iPod, a housemate’s iPod, and my girlfriend’s laptop (containing weeks worth of work on a feature article she’s doing). So, yeah, expect light posting—I’m turning over this machine to her while she tries to reconstruct it. Addendum: If, by […]

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I’m back from Guatemala, and while I obviously didn’t get to post all that material I so coquettishly hinted at before leaving—technical difficulties, among other things—stay tuned for that and mayhap the odd rumination on the trip itself.

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I’m headed off to Guatemala this morning for a Liberty Fund conference, which paradoxically means a likely increase in blogging, since I’ll have a few hours of plane and airport time with which to finally sit down and knock out a gaggle of posts that have been sitting half-completed for the last couple days. Which […]

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