April 2010

Bzzzt.

April 25, 2010

Yesterday’s trip to the barbershop did not go as planned. I should have asked for my usual barber, but I figured, this guy I’ve never seen before at this shop couldn’t possibly screw up such a simple cut. And it is a simple cut: clipped with a #2 guard around the sides and back, short [...]

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Questionnaire 4.

April 25, 2010

My responses to selected questions from an online questionnaire: 1. GRAB THE BOOK NEAREST TO YOU, TURN TO PAGE 18, AND FIND LINE 4. “One more reason I like the Universe-as-mathematical-object” 2. STRETCH YOUR LEFT ARM OUT AS FAR AS YOU CAN. WHAT CAN YOU TOUCH? Eleven books. Two remote controls. My phone. A pencil. [...]

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“Some other way.”

April 18, 2010

WARNING: Spoilers ahead with no spoiler-text. Proceed at your own peril. Yesterday I watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest for the first time in quite some time. It’s a great adaptation of a great book; it’s well-written and well-directed and every single actor nails every single note; and it’s fun to see so many [...]

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How to Make Everything Perfect Forever, Part Three.

April 11, 2010

In a comment on “Bash,” “Blonde” asked the question, “What sort of healthcare do you think is desirable for the United States? Certainly not what we have now?” I was strongly tempted to write, “Everyone should be taxed in order to pay for all the health care I want,” and then use the ensuing discussion [...]

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R.I.P. Aunt Mary.

April 10, 2010

My grand-aunt Mary Viscariello died yesterday at age 90. I think she was around 5 years old in this picture. The very slight grin never went away.

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Messi 4, Arsenal 1.

April 8, 2010

On FIFA ’10, I play as Barcelona mainly because of the front line of Lionel Messi, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, and Thierry Henry. I’d like to know why Messi can score four goals against a strong opponent in the Champions League in real life, but I can’t get his pixelated counterpart to score more than a goal [...]

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Protected: 2010 Resolution #11.

April 1, 2010

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