Archive for December 2005

The monthlies.

• Skippy McScapegoat

  Looking for that special excuse for that special someone? Doonesbury suggests… nine-eleven. (Click on image for full cartoon.) Image: Yahoo!

• Bush: Historiffic

  When someone states, “Bush sucks,” you might think he/she is a partisan hack, but historically speaking, Bush is horrible… And it is quite pathetic when the administration is gleeful that the president’s poll numbers have risen recently to forty percent approval… Images: CBS News

• Flashback: Jon Stewart vs. Crossfire

  (Well, ifilm certainly makes this easy.) Below is the full video of the (now infamous) confrontation between Jon Stewart and the hosts of CNN’S Crossfire, specifically Tucker Carlson. Not long after the airing of this episode, CNN decided to yank Crossfire from the air. Disclaimer: I had been a steady viewer of the Crossfire program [...]

• Machiavellian Footsteps

  I received the following results after taking Salon.com’s Machiavelli personality test. I am not sure if this means anything, but in my (humble) opinion, it’s a good thing (read: omen)… Image: Salon.com

• A Boondocks Christmas

  In this past Sunday’s Christmas edition of Boondocks, examining torture policies is always a preliminary measure. (Click image for full cartoon.) Image: Yahoo!

• Unevolved Creationism

  Toles interprets the religious right’s continuously-failed attempts to indoctrinate the American youth… Image: Yahoo!

• Surge Protection

  My random question of the day is… In houses (and other buildings) when installing a computer or entertainment center, one purchases a surge protector that allows six or eight or ten plugs. Why not simply install that surge protector in the wall in place of the standard outlet? (One usually knows where these “centers” will [...]

• Tsunami Reflection

  A somber look back at the insanely-tragic disaster that was last year’s tsunami in the southwest Pacific and the fact that “at least 216,000 people were left dead or missing and nearly 2 million lost their homes.” Contrasted with the horrific events of nine-eleven where fourteen people shy of three thousand perished (a number that [...]

• Planes, Trains and Automobiles

  I return to the Bay Area this evening after a ten-day trip (ten!) to the Philadelphia area. The trip included an evening in Philadelphia at Body Worlds, a two-day trip to the nation’s capital, a full day of wedding planning in Philadelphia, a day in the city of New York (one without mass transit), and [...]

• Blogging Live From New York City

  I am at the moment posting from the fiftieth floor of the GE building at Rockefeller Center. A day without subways in New York… Walked from Penn Station to the MET, I don’t remember how many blocks that was, and in the midst of walking back. Blog later… (Video from DC day two to come [...]

• Blogging Live From Washington (reyonthehill does dc)

  I arrived in Washington, DC, this afternoon (only my third time here, I believe…), following a three-hour-plus drive from New Jersey. Drove through Adams Morgan and walked around beautiful Georgetown. After checking in at the Club Quarters (only one block from the White House), my fiancee and I headed down to George W. Bush’s house. [...]

• Blogging Live From Philadelphia

  In Philadelphia this evening… I am on holiday from work this upcoming week. Following a red-eye flight (the only way to fly east; you lose a day either way…), I have been staying with my fiancee’s parents in New Jersey. My brother, an architect working for Michael Graves in Princeton, threw a holiday party last [...]

• Thirty Thousand, More Or Less

  Bush gave us a few of his greatest hits as he actually fielded unadulterated questions in Philadelphia this past Monday… Q Since the inception of the Iraqi war, I’d like to know the approximate total of Iraqis who have been killed. And by Iraqis I include civilians, military, police, insurgents, translators. THE PRESIDENT: How many [...]

• From A Pagan To You

  That’s right, I have discovered (as of this past Tuesday) that I am a quarter-pagan. Quarter pagan, you ask? No, I did not inherit my paganism from a relative; it is my choice to celebrate the change of the seasons with a beer or two or ten. And that makes me pagan. Would you like [...]

• A Holiday In Puckin’ Frinceton

  Interesting usage example found on Dictionary.com for the word “holiday.” Hey; good times. And I shouldn’t joke about “Puck Frinceton;” I would love to attend that school. (Hint, hint.) Image: Dictionary.com

• Mouse Wheels

  We perform countless experiments on mice in order to discover the effects on living things before we allow any products to be used on humans. Well, maybe we should have done the same thing with gas-guzzling SUVs as well. Toles illustrates… (Click on image for full cartoon.) Image: Yahoo Disclaimer: My only vehicle is a [...]

• A Blockbuster Flop

  The most prominent multi-billion dollar industry with a failing business plan is represented best by Blockbuster. Blockbuster is in the process of reneging on their “save the business” plan to eliminate late fees. You know, late fees, the only item that keeps a Blockbuster-type business profitable. (“Yes, let’s get rid of those pesky late fees; [...]

• Start Of The Second Year

  It has been one full year since me and my fiancee moved into our newly-built home (on December 14, 2004) in the Bay Area. It has been a wonderful year filled with all of the symptoms of first-time homeowners and new construction. Our one-year patent warranty expired as well but was able to get a [...]

• Blogger Failures Render Me Unavailable To Publish

  Blogger refuses to accept responsibility that their push-button publishing tool, named “Blogger,” has persistently been out of service for more than two weeks now. As a result, it takes great pain and an enormous amount of scheming to publish one simple blog entry. Moving my blog to WordPress or Six Apart is seemingly the only [...]

• Big East Early Season Prowess

  Further evidence of the eventual dominance by the greatest basketball league ever formed, the Big East… The most recent AP poll has three Big East teams, Connecticut, Villanova, and Louisville, ranked two, three, and four, respectively… Image: Sportsline.com

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