My Rio, how you have fallen
31 October 2005 - 04:31 pmBecause just about the only positive to be derived from the match at Middlesbrough is that surely Rio Ferdinand cannot get any worse.
Archive for October, 2005
Hard to tell
31 October 2005 - 09:07 amHard to tell if it’s Halloween or just another average day for the goth kids on campus.
To libby
30 October 2005 - 08:55 pmJuan Cole coins a new word.
Use some typographical sense when preparing your indictments
28 October 2005 - 12:45 pmDon’t use Times New Roman. It’s hideous. Have some panache - you are indicting the chief of staff to the vice president. Make a statement with your choice of font.
Try Baskerville instead; it’s quite attractive.
How does one contruct a Venn diagram for this one?
28 October 2005 - 10:14 amTrent Lott on Harriet Miers:
“There are a lot more people - men, women and minorities - that are more qualified”
Proving that if you criticize someone enough they will probably quit
27 October 2005 - 07:16 amPresident George W. Bush’s nominee for the US Supreme Court, White House counsel Harriet Miers, abruptly withdrew from consideration on Thursday after fierce criticism …
It seems that the same does not, unfortunately, work in the case of the president.
So true
26 October 2005 - 05:19 pmFrom a talk on a completely diffferent topic:
But information too has become an addiction. I don’t know what it’s like at your house, but we can’t even watch a simple rerun of Friends without one of us saying “Who’s that actress playing Joey’s girlfriend? She looks familiar.” We then click the Info button on the remote to get the title of the particular episode, and then go to tvtome.com or epguides.com to learn the identity of the actress, and then perhaps to Internet Movie Database to see a list of the movies, TV shows, and guest appearances she’s done, and perhaps for one of the movies we’ll say “I always wanted to see that movie” and so we add it to our NetFlix queue.