I get a ton of spam comments to this blog. I don’t know why. I don’t get very many real comments, but somehow the spammers hit me with about 80 a week. So I have moderation set. If you’ve commented before, then you can comment again without having to wait for moderation. But if you […]
Archive | May, 2007
Now Open
The Creation Museum. If you don’t want to subscribe for free to the New York Times online, you can read about it here, here, here, etc. One thing that seems to be missing from all these “reviews” and news articles is any sense of outrage or contempt. There’s no good reason that a publication of […]
Importation, Part 2
Ok, so now all the posts from oldweeklyrob (before March, 2007) have been brough over here. No comments came over, which is very sad. To see the comments for any post before March, 2007, you’ll still have to visit the old site. And I only brought over a few pictures, because that was more of […]
Importation
Since I moved my blog from iWeb, I’ve been bothered that one year’s worth of posts are over there, and the rest are over here. So, slowly but surely, I’m going to start moving stuff over here. For those of you who rss (this may include whyohwhy people), this could get ugly for a while. […]
English is Broken
English isn’t perfect. For me, it wasn’t until I started learning other languages that I realized some deficiencies in my own. Just for fun, here are a few: WE: Let’s say that you, dear reader, and I, are chatting. I say to you “we’re invited to the party.” Off the bat, you don’t know whether […]
I Don't Feel So Good
Don’t worry your pretty little heads. I feel fine. I really don’t like the way that people use “so” to mean, “very” in a negative statement. “This veal isn’t so good.” It just sounds wrong to me, and snob that I am, it sounds low-class. To me, “so” is properly used when there’s something to […]
Spiders and Humans
I washed a spider down my shower drain last night. I generally let them live, as long as they’re not in my bed, or crawling around somewhere in my way, or clearly venomous. (I killed a black widow a few months ago with no remorse at all.) As I washed it down, I thought about […]
FREEEEEEEEDOM!
Two (sort of) freedom of speech issues are in the news in Europe lately. I think I disagree with the way they’ve handled both of them. 1. The EU has passed a law making it illegal to deny genocides (or claim that they were less than they were). This only works for genocides that fall […]
Audio Books
When I was 15 years younger than I am now, I worked at an “Audio Bookstore” called Bookears. Everyone thought that audio books were a ridiculous idea. They had this snobby snort of attitude, like if you’d only listen to a book if you couldn’t read. “What’s wrong with people today?” Now that iPods are […]
Givers and Takers
When I want to find out the lyrics to a song, or whether a particular juicer is all it’s cracked up to be, I go to the Web. Just like everyone else. And I can almost always find it. Whether it’s amazon.com reviews, or just a personal Web site, someone, somewhere, has posted the information […]