To be able to say "Noggle," you first must be able to say "Nah."
Courtesy of a French, or Quebecker, reader, or perhaps someone who wanted to yank my chain, Google translated my page into French today. I think I’ll take a poll of what looks the most wrong on the page. My vote: un “certain branleur.” Kim du Toit, sur la bibliothèque de Noggle. Being berated by Kim […]
In Whitehorse, Canada, a Black Lab took a truck for a drive: A pedestrian in a Whitehorse suburb was taken aback Tuesday night when a dog drove by in a red pickup truck. Police say a person was out for a walk when the truck with a black Labrador at the wheel passed by. When […]
Cartoonist Art Spiegelman drew some comic strips that the New Yorker magazine did not accept for publication, and now that he’s gotten his time in the bright lights of the television cameras, he’s rightfully claiming that he’s been censored. I know how that heavy burden of oppression feels, my friends, because on many occasions, I, […]
George W. Bush. He’s calling Kerry out. I didn’t expect that. A politician who promises to raise taxes keeps that promise. Echoes of Tommy Thompson’s first run against Tony Earl for Governor of Wisconsin, if I recall. How did I forget Tony Earl in my list of Wisconsin politicians?
Adam Entous of Reuters shows Matthew Hoye or Phil Hirshkorn the true power of this fully-operational battle idiom: Democrat John Kerry will dispatch two fellow Vietnam veterans to President Bush’s secluded Texas ranch on Wednesday to press him to condemn television advertisements accusing Kerry of lying about his wartime service. The move comes one day […]
James Lileks follows in my footsteps and watches the movie This Gun for Hire. Veronica Lake was sompthin, ainna?
All six of you daily readers knew it before I did, but this blog will take me to success. Why, just today I received this recognition in my Hotmail Junk E-Mail folder: Dear Webmaster, I am writing to you because I am exchanging links with some of the best business related websites on the web, […]
For Franzio’s boxed wine: It’s as close as you’re going to get to having a beer tap, Chester. Why am I drinking boxed wine? Because I bought it as a joke for Atari Party 5 and the joke’s on me–nobody else touched it.
First, Subway eliminated its frequent customer reward program. Now, according to Michelle at A Small Victory, its European outlets are promoting the “documentary” Super Size Me. Crass. Very crass, Subway.
Today, friends and readers, I coin for your amusement a term in the testers’ cant, a secret language spoken to confound developers. Just as developers confound us with talk of materialized views, mainClasses, and environmental PATH variables (all of which we testers know to be fictional), we testers have devised our own secret language with […]
Clap the, well, clapboard, for the St. Louis Post Dispatch has a new reason to oppose the discontinuation of emissions testing in the St. Louis area: In 1999, Robert Bowers, a buyer for the Office of Administration, signed a contract on behalf of the state with Environmental Systems Products, a Connecticut-based company that runs the […]
From Crescat Sententia we have a rebuttal of sorts to the list included here. Crescat lists its top 99 books/series of all time. Here’s how I fared on its enlightened reading, with the books I have read in bold and those I have on my to-read shelf in italics: 1. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane […]
CNN reports that the Hamlet first edition that I asked for didn’t make the reserve price and was not sold. Gentle readers, could you not have come up with the extra couple hundred thousand among you needed to add this to my library? I applaud whatever effort you used to generate just over a million […]
Well, I have done my part to help maintain Jasperwood and to keep Lileks in Hummels and cigars. I read The Bleat, his Back Fence column with the Star-Tribune, and even his weekly Newhouse News column. That’s all free, though, and does little for Lileks’ bottom line, which is probably higher than many peoples’ top […]
The world-famous DC from Brainstorming, who also appeared on the Hugh Hewitt show this evening (even if Instapundit overlooks it, we know), asks why I didn’t want to be associated with Walt Whitman. The backstory: I took a Quizilla quiz that asked what poet I was. I wasn’t Walt Whitman, and I said I was […]
Oh, how they mocked me last year when I shook my head about St. Peters, Missouri, arresting underage teenagers for taking pornographic videos to sell to their fellow high school students. (I went into greater detail about the absurdity the next day.) Can you get any more absurd than charging children for exploiting children? The […]
Andrew Sullivan has a number of awards that he dishes out to people who say something foolish. It’s high time I was self-important enough to announce a special award and give it out periodically. Ergo, I hereby announce the Joseph Kittinger, Jr., Award for Demonstrable Manliness, named after Joseph Kittenger, Jr., who had gall as […]
Sometimes, on long days on the job, I hear the voice of Ben Kingsley in my mind, paraphrasing those lines from Searching for Bobby Fischer: Bruce: Do you know what it means to have “contempt” for the software?Brian: No.Bruce: It means to hate it. You have to hate it, Brian, it hates you. I’ve […]
Wizbang! points out that the story in this post about a guy who wore a devil costume to see The Passion of the Christ was a spoof. But it can’t be. I saw it on Fark, so it’s gotta be true. Next you’re going to tell me is that the things in their photography ontests […]
Just in time to take advantage of the new jail-term-for-illegal-parking described below, St. Charles, Missouri, has decided it’s going to send a bill to lodgers in its Compulsory Resort, previously known as the city jail: The County Council voted Tuesday night to require such inmates to set up installment repayment plans within six months after […]