Archive for December, 2004
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Friday, December 10th, 2004I’ve had this sinus crap for like a week now, and it’s starting to show signs that it’s perfectly content where it is. It’s also decided to invite its friend the hacking cough. I’m no hypochondriac, but I’m starting to think maybe some antibiotics might be in order. ‘Cause seriously, I gotta get in shape [...]
Hackers of various sorts
Wednesday, December 8th, 2004I started reading “Spam Kings” by Brian McWilliams for an interview I’m doing with the guy Thursday. It’s pretty good after chapter 1. So far it’s got a half-assed neo-Nazi spammer and one amateur spam-buster divorcee lady. I imagine they’ll be meeting on a mountaintop soon. In other news, I don’t mean to carp on [...]
Up from opiates
Tuesday, December 7th, 2004Christ. My word of advice for today: Do not, if you can avoid it, do any sort of damage to the little cartilage discs in your back. Because they are really important. Mainly they are important to whole other parts of your body, any one of which can apparently fly into disrepair if one of [...]
Touchable
Thursday, December 2nd, 2004While watching “The Untouchables” last night, Dookie (formerly known as Jimmy Jam) and I started discussing the various things that keep said film from being a masterpiece. Or that keep it from being great, rather than merely good. Obviously Kevin Costner was the first thing that came up. That, and DeNiro’s inexcusable ham-handed mugging. And [...]
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