Posted in slice-o-life on October 6th, 2004 No Comments »
At Zeitgeist last night with Nat, Rael, Cory, James and Bill, I regurgitated a quip to the effect of “I, for one, welcome our robot masters.” Cory offered the corrected version with “I, for one, welcome our new robot masters.”
Which got me to thinking a typically inane thought: why was this phrase stuck in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on October 5th, 2004 No Comments »
Sent by soldiers who served, or are serving, to Michael Moore; published in today’s Guardian. I’m sure Moore was selective in his choices of letters to publish, but it’s still depressing.
I know someone who had two members of the Reserve company he commands airlifted home due to injuries sustained during the first week of [...]
Posted in slice-o-life on October 1st, 2004 No Comments »
Spent a while at Kate’s last night, keeping an eye on the wee fella while Shannon worked. Cian chanted.
“Tankers! Tankers! Tankers!”
“How charming,” I thought to myself. “He must have seen some tanker trucks.” Then the devilish grin spread across his face, and the chant changed.
“Wankers! Wankers! Wankers!”
My heart [...]