Longing on a large scale is what makes history.
Oct 31 2005
The Dilbert Blog is by Scott Adam, although it isn’t about Dilbert. It’s about Scott Adam. For example, from October 24, 2005: My blog is the only writing you’ll see from me that doesn’t first go through a professional editor. That means plenty of grammar and punctuation wrecks for you to enjoy. I blame the [...]
Oct 29 2005
My 4 year old daughter learned knock-knock jokes about a year ago, a never-ending source of entertainment for her; she loves to make them up: Knock-knock. Who’s there? Bath. Bath who? Bath me because it’s almost bed time! And we both crack up whether it’s funny or not. Today she told me a regular joke [...]
Oct 28 2005
Calvin and Hobbes is back, as reported long ago, with The Complete Calvin and Hobbes. Where’s ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ creator? is an article from CNN about Bill Watterson, who’s rich enough to do whatever he wants, which is apparently studying 17th century art and painting.
Oct 27 2005
The Empire Strikes Back as a 2 minute animated gif. I can’t imagine the effort to do something like that. I wish I was rich so I could waste my time on stupid stuff (I mean stupider stuff). (via Look At This…)
Oct 26 2005
My blog is worth $1,129.08.How much is your blog worth? Here’s an application that derives your site’s worth based on Technortati data, which tracks what sites link to others in “real time”. The more sites that link to yours, the more your site is worth. That’s in American dollars! That’s like $200,000 Canadian. (via Stupid [...]
Oct 25 2005
I dropped my 4½ year old daughter, Caitlyn, off at pre-school today for the first time. My wife has always done it, so I didn’t give it much thought before now: I’m leaving my kid with strangers who don’t know she eats tomatoes like apples; she has to have sea salt on her sliced cucumbers; [...]
Oct 25 2005
“Steve” has posted a dire warning about a new email virus. Take heed! This virus can: Cause your toilet to flush while you are showering. drink all your beer. refill your skim milk with whole milk. screws up the tracking on your vcr. Be sure to read his entire post; a lot of important information [...]
Oct 22 2005
The hotel I stayed in last night at Southfield, Michigan has free breakfasts. As I entered its dining area this morning, I exchanged glances with a guy sitting at a table drinking coffee. My first thought was, “Holy shit, that looks like Danny Schmidt“. If you’re the regular reader of SWT (Hi, Phillip), you know [...]