tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32042602011-05-07T12:33:57.268-04:00Ye Olde BloggeThe Original (well, the second original) blog of <a href="http://spleenville.com/">Andrea Harris</a>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comBlogger1571100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-1108916958036865132005-02-20T11:28:00.000-05:002005-02-20T11:29:18.036-05:00I don't know if this is necessary, but I'm just adding a post to make sure this blog stays put.Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-93041812002-02-02T12:01:00.000-05:002002-02-02T12:01:33.613-05:00Update:
there is a way to connect to the letters for the day, but it's way at the bottom of the collected letters. Scroll up to the first letter to read the one I meant.
Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-93039992002-02-02T11:54:00.000-05:002002-02-02T11:54:17.686-05:00Celibacy causes pedophilia?
I have to disagree with this person who wrote in to Andrew Sullivan's Letters page (you'll have to scroll to February 2nd's letters -- his site doesn't seem to have a way to link to individual ones) who basically says that celibacy is wrong because men are physically unable to control their sexuality, and that pedophilia is a natural result of this:
This is more a Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-93035292002-02-02T11:31:00.000-05:002002-02-02T11:31:52.763-05:00There's hope: More Than Zero is back up.
Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-93034912002-02-02T11:29:00.000-05:002002-02-02T11:29:10.920-05:00Destroy all hackers!
No, really; I am sick of these little dweebs. They need to be found and taken out to the woodshed and beaten like redheaded stepchildren 'till buttermilk comes out their noses.
Why am I so pissed? Well: I tried to get my email today only to find that my entire site is down, so I go to get my web-based email and got a message from Momma Bear telling me Sgt. Stryker's websiteAndreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-92934692002-02-01T23:50:00.000-05:002002-02-01T23:50:49.670-05:00"He Loves America"
The defense for John "Taliboy" Walker Lndh whatever-the-hell-his-name-is are basically admitting that they have no defense.
Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-92615332002-02-01T01:42:00.000-05:002002-02-01T01:42:17.760-05:00As concerns the new site:
Well, this wasn't so bad, by the time I figured out where to put everything. I'm exhausted and starting to babble though, so I'd better go to bed. I'll be importing everyone's comments over to this site, so the dates on them will be wrong. I'll try to remember to double-post for a few days, more or less.
I'll also be adding to the links list, and tweaking the counter, Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-92612092002-02-01T01:26:00.000-05:002002-02-01T01:26:58.340-05:00Okay, people, it is DONE. It is READY. (More or less -- there are a few glitches I have to fix, such as moving everyone's comments):
The Olde Hagge has moved the Olde Blogge to:
www.spleenville.com/blog/
Link: here.
I'll still be posting double for a few days, until I can't stand it anymore to give everyone time to change their links.
Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-92471832002-01-31T17:39:00.000-05:002002-01-31T17:39:28.076-05:00Instapundit had a link to this article, from the Idler, on the press conference with Afghan leader Hamid Karzai, who seemed to be a hit with everyone in the room -- except, for some reason, the New York Times reporter, who according to the Idler was rude and obnoxious, refusing to applaud or wear his name tag or introduce himself to any of his colleagues from foreign newspapers, and compared Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-92331802002-01-31T10:11:00.000-05:002002-01-31T10:11:59.616-05:00Cool -- Neil Gaiman has a blog.
Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-92222092002-01-31T00:14:00.000-05:002002-01-31T00:14:18.203-05:00Literary vs. Fiction update:
Alert Reader Jeff Goldstein over at Protein Wisdom tried to post this as a comment, but my comment thingie wouldn't work for him:
"Interesting post. As someone who's taught a number of fiction writing
courses (and has published both "literary" and "genre" fiction, so
called),
I'm always interested in hearing the opinions of those who are new to
the
experienceAndreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-92200232002-01-30T22:58:00.000-05:002002-01-30T23:04:20.000-05:00According to this article, the Muslim woman here in Florida who wants to force the state to let her get a driver's license with herself masked up like a ninja, Sultaana Freeman, is a "former evangelical preacher." Well, there's a hint as to why she's so full of b.s. (Sorry to all those sincere evangelical preachers out there who haven't changed to a cooler religion.) If this woman was not such anAndreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-91961552002-01-30T10:07:00.000-05:002002-01-30T10:07:40.163-05:00Alert bloggers Damian Penny, Kathy Kinslet, and Anthony Adragna have already taken down this guy, so all I have to say to Mr. John Pilger of the Daily Mirror is:
Bow your head!
Muahahaha....
Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-91867182002-01-30T00:57:00.000-05:002002-01-30T01:03:59.000-05:00I was going to post a screed on this hypocritical article on the Arab News website, but then I decided life was too short. Instead, I'll treat you to some random thoughts on Literary Fiction vs. Genre Fiction.
I'm taking a Creative Writing course at college. I was expecting silliness, but the course is required for my minor. It turns out not to be silly but actually quite practical, though thereAndreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-91840602002-01-29T23:19:00.000-05:002002-01-29T23:19:33.063-05:00Big scandal here in (where else?) Florida: President Bush's Niece Arrested on Drug Charge. She's Governor Jeb's daughter. I just saw a news report on the local channel; they had a shot of him at a press conference and the Jebster looked pretty pissed. ("Distraught and emotional" the newscaster stated diplomatically.) The news show also interviewed a couple of women who got addicted to Xanax (the Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-91825192002-01-29T22:33:00.000-05:002002-01-29T22:33:45.576-05:00Bjørn Stærk alerts us today to some person by the name of Hylland Eriksen. Mr. Eriksen apparently just returned to the solar system from Arcturus IV, so has no idea why there might have been a good reason for the US to invade Afghanistan a few months back. Mr. Stærk sets him straight in a few succinct sentences at the end of this post (but read it all).
Speaking of writing, I came across my Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-91800462002-01-29T21:26:00.000-05:002002-01-29T21:26:18.743-05:00Quote of the day: "I heard that there was this ninja who was eating at a diner. And when some dude dropped a spoon the ninja killed the whole town." This web site is an example of why Andrew Sullivan loves the web.
Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-91780092002-01-29T20:24:00.000-05:002002-01-29T20:24:32.740-05:00Ryan Boren posts some sane and sensible observations on Saudi Arabia, the Guantanamo prisoners, the Pakistani families upset at how the Taliban treated their offspring (who had gone to join up with the "jihad"), the stupidity of the anti-globalist protestors, and he also has some neat pictures of corals eating their dinner. (Yes, corals are animals, and they have mouths.)Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-91619492002-01-29T11:34:00.000-05:002002-01-29T11:36:48.000-05:00I just discovered this: Tom Tomorrow has a blog. Sometimes his viewpoints are knee-jerk liberal, and I have been infuriated by a couple of his post-Sept-11 cartoons, but he's often spot-on in his observations. He's definitely no Ted Rall.
[Edited to change a "bbut" to a "but." I'm getting over a stomach flu (which followed my recent Female Troubles), as well as having to go to class and work Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-91617102002-01-29T11:25:00.000-05:002002-01-29T11:29:00.000-05:00Naked statue controversy update:
Concerning the fuss that John Ashcroft reportedly made about the half-naked statue in the Justice Department building, I read on Protein Wisdom that according to the New York Post, John Ashcroft had nothing to do with ordering the $8000 drapes to cover them up. So I guess he's off the hook -- if this is true. (If it isn't, then I maintain that this is not a goodAndreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-91606752002-01-29T10:49:00.000-05:002002-01-29T10:49:21.830-05:00Site update:
Heads up everyone! The Olde Hagge is moving to Spleenville. Don't change your bookmarks yet -- I'm still working on the move, but I hope to be all moved over by Friday, Feb 1st, at the latest. In order to give people time to change their bookmarks, I'll double-post on Blogger for a few days. That's the plan!
Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-91139832002-01-28T01:24:00.000-05:002002-01-28T01:24:28.516-05:00Coming soon: www.spleenville.com.
Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-91139382002-01-28T01:22:00.000-05:002002-01-28T01:23:36.000-05:00"Every American has a target painted on his chest". I heard on the news tonight that this WSJ reporter had been kidnapped by some group of Islamofascists. Incredibly, the reporter fell for a hoax, and did what every kid is warned by his mother not to do: he went someplace with a couple of strangers.
Mr. Den Beste points out a few things I think a lot of us -- not just reporters -- would do wellAndreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-91095262002-01-27T22:36:00.000-05:002002-01-27T22:36:38.390-05:00Moira Breen alerted me to the fact that my blog looked freaky in Mozilla, so I've gone and changed the template again for a temporary fix while I get myself moved into my new domain space. Stay tuned for the new location.
Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-90952832002-01-27T13:38:00.000-05:002002-01-27T13:38:18.876-05:00Okay, tried to edit the post three times, but the "post" button does not appear. Here are the offending sentences from the rant below, with the corrections in bold: "...there's nary a mention of this story..." (link in the paragraph below); and "I hope no one comes up to me anywhere and tries to sell me on the wonderful culture that is fostered by fundamentalist Islam."
You try typing with a catAndreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-90951032002-01-27T13:30:00.000-05:002002-01-27T13:30:59.496-05:00I've been to a lot of U2 concerts, but something always held me back from signing up at the table Amnesty International would set up outside the shows. I'm glad I didn't bother. I visited their main website, as well as the US site, and nary a mention of this story to be found. Oh, AI features the main fashionable complaints on Camp X-Ray and the usual griping about the death penalty in the US -- Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-90911602002-01-27T10:08:00.000-05:002002-01-27T10:12:53.000-05:00Which classic book are you?. I'm Shakespeare's Hamlet. (I didn't post the link to the whole script I got because some weird formatting thing put a huge blank space in the blog. Via Blogatelle.)
Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-90798092002-01-26T21:23:00.000-05:002002-01-26T21:23:19.720-05:00It took about an hour after getting my cable modem hooked up for the first hacking attempt. They must have hacker bots out there or something set on random.
Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-90536982002-01-25T20:43:00.000-05:002002-01-25T20:43:33.000-05:00What to tell the Concerned Ones who are still vaporing over the poor, abused Al Qaeda prisoners' having been hooded and goggled and sedated etc. en route to Camp X-Ray: the military was only trying to protect their sensibilities -- the in-flight movie was Glitter.
Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-90187232002-01-24T19:17:00.000-05:002002-01-24T19:18:08.000-05:00Uh oh -- blogs are getting fashionable. Expect the backlash: "Blog? That's so 2002! Only neanderthal conservatives still have blogging sites. The new trend in web fashion is interactive 3-D!"
Let the VRML revolution begin!
Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-90048512002-01-24T11:07:00.000-05:002002-01-24T11:07:18.496-05:00It is done: I cancelled the trial MSN account, eliminated the Borg-style "MSN browser" from my computer, and signed up for broadband though Earthlink (via the Borg Time Warner). It's only about $19.00 more per month. Next on the agenda: a domain, as soon as I can think of the perfect name -- if it isn't taken already. Then in the possibly near future I may switch to Movable Type or Greymatter. Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-89474382002-01-22T18:45:00.000-05:002002-01-22T18:52:30.000-05:00Why "Human Rights" Activists and Other Beasties Won't Ever Let the USA Off the Hook
(And: why they will never bother China or the Sudan or Saudi Arabia or any other creepy totalitarian/slaver/misogynist nation-state about their record on human rights.)
Because they know they can say any anti-American thing they like, go to cool anti-Guantanamo protest parties 'til the break of dawn, and the Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-89331462002-01-22T10:01:00.000-05:002002-01-22T10:04:59.000-05:00Robert Fisk isn't the only writer of purple prose out there: try out this grapelicious selection by one Stephen Moyes of the Mirror. His assignment? To try on the outfit worn by the Al Qaeda prisoners. (There's a photo of him all dressed up. He looks just darling. Minor quibble. He didn't go all the way and get his head shaved. How can he really know what it's like unless he gets his head shaved?Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-89230842002-01-22T00:01:00.000-05:002002-01-22T00:24:37.000-05:00I found this link on Little Green Footballs and I couldn't resist:
Robert Fisk would like to thank America for making Osama Bin Laden happy by the horrible way we are treating those nice Al Qaeda we've imprisoned in Guantanamo. Well, Mr. Fisk, we aim to please. But how, pray tell, are we accomplishing this dastardly deed?
Well, for one thing, we made the prisoners wear hoods over their heads. Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-88793472002-01-20T17:39:00.000-05:002002-01-20T17:39:23.156-05:00Update: the "structure" off the coast of Japan was a hoax. (Heads up from Stephen Den Beste.) Bummer, I thought it was neat... Back to fiction. Wonder if the findings in India are a hoax too. After all, potsherds and the like can simply have been planted, and the structure-like things could be natural.
Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-88791642002-01-20T17:32:00.000-05:002002-01-20T17:33:18.000-05:00Cuba Camp is "Unacceptable", from the Telegraph. Apparently making the prisoners wear goggles and masks and gloves is "sensory deprivation" and is thus some sort of torture, according to the Concerned Individuals quoted in this article. You know, I can remember when "Sensory Deprivation Tanks" were the next big things in therapy. Yes, it was back in the 70's, I don't call myself "Olde Hagge" for Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-88762752002-01-20T15:39:00.000-05:002002-01-20T15:51:04.000-05:00Neat: what might be the ruins of a 9,500 year old city have been found off the coast of India. Urban civilization could have started before the Ice Age. One wonders what might be found off the coasts elsewhere. There are those strange, regular-shaped rocks under the ocean in the Bahamas, or somewhere in the Caribbean, that are supposed to be a natural formation. But what if it isn't? And I saw Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-88756572002-01-20T15:10:00.000-05:002002-01-20T15:13:24.000-05:00Concerning this post on Samizdata (that quoted Brian Linse) on reasons to keep tv cameras out of the courtroom, I'd like to add another: the use of courtroom artists to make visual recordings of various moments in court trials lend the procedure a dignity and respectability that is sorely lacking in the all-warts-showing televised method. Showing only drawings, rather than live feed or even Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-88722612002-01-20T12:47:00.001-05:002002-01-20T12:48:03.000-05:00And yes, that was slavish agreement on my part with a like mind, at least on this subject.
Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-88722352002-01-20T12:47:00.000-05:002002-01-20T12:47:01.166-05:00My sentiments exactly - William Quick on America vs. 'international opinion."
Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-88720902002-01-20T12:40:00.000-05:002002-01-20T12:40:29.000-05:00Correction: the winner of my First Geek Challenge is Christopher Johnson, the Midwest Conservative. What can I say? I obviously need new glasses.
Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-88634602002-01-20T01:31:00.000-05:002002-01-20T01:31:50.443-05:00My connection sucks and I can't stand it.
Anyway, I remembered what I wanted to post about, but first, this: over at Daimnation is the latest in an ongoing Al Qaeda prisoners/Geneva Conventions discussion. I have little knowledge of the finer points in legal terminology. I am not coming at this subject with any kind of expertise. But it seems to me that the arguments in favor of the US's Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-88611242002-01-19T23:50:00.000-05:002002-01-19T23:50:34.256-05:00I don't know what it is with MSN. I seem to be connected at a fairly fast speed (for a 56k modem), but I'll click on a link and nothing will happen. I guess I'm growing too impatient for regular dialup, and something like Roadrunner is on the horizon -- when I get money. The heck with eating!
And the winner of the Geek Points Challenge (see my post below) is Charles Johnson. He seems to think Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-88343292002-01-18T22:49:00.000-05:002002-01-18T22:49:46.000-05:00Get this article, on the antics of asylum seekers currently detained in Australia. It seems that it is taking too long to process their visa, so some of them have thrown rocks, set things afire, staged general mayhem, and last but not least, sewn their lips together in an effort to continue a hunger strike. Just the sort of folks Australia needs to assimilate into their society, I am sure.
(Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-88336832002-01-18T22:23:00.000-05:002002-01-18T22:24:26.000-05:00Oh dear, it looks as if my creature has met its end. Good-bye, Torgo, I'll miss you. (Ten geek points to anyone who gets what the name refers to.)
Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-88326922002-01-18T21:41:00.000-05:002002-01-18T21:41:05.066-05:00Something occurred to me in reading all this stuff about the Saudis: what's with the titles? I mean, we know they aren't really "Princes," "Kings," and "Princesses," etc., not in the European sense of those terms anyway. (Heck, I believe that I can buy a title if I want -- with enough money.) I wrote a research paper on the Wahhabi movement last term; as I recall the Sauds were just chieftains ofAndreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-88320972002-01-18T21:16:00.000-05:002002-01-18T21:19:33.000-05:00Michael Long over at NRO has an article on the prisoners at Guantanamo: read it. Yes, we're terrible, revenge-obsessed Americans, we are.
Thanks to Charles Johnson over at Little Green Footballs for the complimentary post on my semi-coherent screed below.
Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-88065612002-01-18T01:27:00.000-05:002002-01-18T02:12:29.000-05:00I really should be getting to bed, but I have a rant to get off my chest. Here goes:
The "international community" is, it seems, very concerned with the Al Qaeda prisoners who have been transported to Guantanamo. Much tut-tutting, tsk-tsking, and disapproving head shakes have been offered over the accomodations set up for the prisoners. It seems that a) they are not actually classified as "Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-87832972002-01-17T11:18:00.000-05:002002-01-17T11:18:37.850-05:00In my last template change I seem to have lost some of my links. I am replacing them as I remember them, but if anyone wants their blog added to my links list, just email me at lilith33-at-yahoo.com.
In other news: the good folk over at Samizdata have stronger digestive systems than mine, and have unearthed some unsavory stuff about one Mr. Raimondo, the warblog-hating ranter of Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-87708572002-01-16T23:42:00.000-05:002002-01-16T23:42:16.503-05:00Um, okay, weird. My archives went "poof!" I had to republish them all. Wacky.
Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-87706202002-01-16T23:32:00.000-05:002002-01-16T23:38:33.000-05:00I keep fiddling with the thing -- adding links, changing things. It's cwazy.Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-87695392002-01-16T22:57:00.000-05:002002-01-16T23:07:48.000-05:00Christopher Johnson over at the Midwest Conservative Journal has a link to this article from the Arab News on an "international seminar on the Muslim image in Western news media which was organized by the Islamic Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO)." During this conference, one Nathan Cardelles, said to be a "chief editor of a Los Angeles Times Group publication" according Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-87669582002-01-16T21:32:00.000-05:002002-01-16T21:36:00.000-05:00Okay, I just finished emailing someone who had had trouble with the comments program I added to the blog, then realized that in my last template change I had neglected to replace the comment tags in the appropriate places. Uuurggh. Anyway, the comments links are bck; and they seem to work, at least in IE and related browsers. (I haven't tried it in Netscape or Mozilla.)
PS: I am still working onAndreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-87661912002-01-16T21:07:00.000-05:002002-01-16T21:07:52.573-05:00(Sigh. Wipes sweat from forehead.) Just finished some minor tweaking of the template. I had to change certain links to certain bloggers who have gone and purchased their own domains. Now I'm off to finish replying to my email. Then I'll be back to wade through the issues of the day.
By the way, I changed my Amazon box message to something even more off-putting than "feed my cat." Gosh, there Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-87477012002-01-16T10:20:00.000-05:002002-01-16T19:42:39.000-05:00Tired analogy alert: in this column, a Guardian columnist (of course) blames that old bugbear, "conformist America," for the suicide of Charles Bishop (the kid who flew his plane into the building in Tampa, Florida). The poor boy, it seems, was a misfit, "unappreciated" by his mall-going, sports jock classmates. He had no chooice but to make a "grand, nihilistic gesture." Ms. Raven admits it is Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-87255262002-01-15T17:21:00.000-05:002002-01-15T17:21:27.000-05:00Get this: the personal flying machine is here! (I got this info from USS Clueless.) Okay, now I'm afraid of heights, and hate to fly -- in planes, for reasons that have nothing to do with September 11th -- but this is cool. It's those personal rockets-packs from all the old sci-fi stories. I hope that this guy's invention makes it into the market. I can hear it now, though, from the Safety Nazis:Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-87054372002-01-15T01:24:00.000-05:002002-01-15T01:24:22.996-05:00I love it: Yemen was not Muslim enough for Johnny "Taliban" Walker. Or "Yusuf Islam," as his schoolmates over there sarcastically called him -- that's the name Cat Stevens adopted when he converted to Islam. Believe it or not, your regular, everyday Muslim is about as impressed by showy converts as the average Christian American is by the likes of Jerry Falwell.
Read the whole article. It's a Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-87040502002-01-15T00:22:00.000-05:002002-01-15T00:25:29.000-05:00God, I suck. I've gone and changed the template again. I was in a... brown mood. Well, "autumnal" sounds better. Today was a day of driving, chilly rain -- and don't get me wrong, I like that kind of weather. Living in Florida all my life means that my attitude to sunny, warm days is like that of the heroin-addicted plantation wife in White Mischief. (The scene is when she gets up in the morning Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-86994992002-01-14T21:45:00.000-05:002002-01-14T21:45:45.640-05:00This is cool: Leave It Alone, a poster image offered by the National Review of the photo of the three firemen raising the flag over the WTC rubble. Also, here's Rich Lowry's commentary on the controversy over the statue (see my post below).
Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-86586332002-01-13T16:33:00.000-05:002002-01-13T16:33:37.000-05:00Just when you think Ted Rall can't be any less amusing, he tops, or perhaps bottoms himself again. Enjoy his latest puerile attempt at sarcasm.
Note: as I was "enjoying" this work of art myself, I scrolled down and saw the most frightening sentence: meet Ted Rall. Where, at the gates of hell? "Noooo-ooooo...!"Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-86387262002-01-12T20:35:00.000-05:002002-01-12T20:35:42.000-05:00Actually, I believe that Endora (Samantha's mother) used to call Darin "Derwood," not "Darwin." I'm pretty sure; I have succesfully avoided watching Bewitched since I moved out on my own, almost twenty years ago. (And now that I've mentioned Darwin, I hope to get loads of hits, as per Bryan Preston. You'll have to scroll down his site to see the post I'm referring to.)
Darwin Darwin Darwin!
Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-86383202002-01-12T20:17:00.000-05:002002-01-12T20:17:11.580-05:00Oh -- and I saw Lord of the Rings today. I am still digesting it; it may (cough cough) need a second seeing for me to do a proper critique. I will post more on it later.
Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-86375142002-01-12T19:36:00.000-05:002002-01-12T20:10:47.000-05:00Jeff Jarvis tells the Politically Correct Era "Good-bye, and don't let the door hit your ass on the way out." One thing, though, unmentioned by most commentators on this subject is how much time being PC wastes. For example: the professor of the Multicultural Studies class I took last semester would often tell us about the various meetings she went to (she was a folklorist something-or-other, andAndreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-86262332002-01-12T09:34:00.000-05:002002-01-12T09:36:24.000-05:00This old hagge wants to go out for breakfast, but first I must get this off my chest:
As concerns the Enron scandal, I can see that I'm going to be avoiding the news again (unless I am having trouble falling asleep). I can't see what the big deal is -- as far as I'm concerned, Enron deserved to go down the tubes just for that annoying commercial with the guy in the metal suit. Oh, and the "Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-86152532002-01-11T21:10:00.000-05:002002-01-11T21:10:10.123-05:00My turn to comment on this little gem of a story. Let's see: an Arab guy stays in a hotel overlooking the World Trade Center from some unspecified (in the article) time up to September 11th. The safe in his room happened to contain: an Egyptian passport, an book in Arabic, and.... "a handheld pilot radio which is marketed for use by pilots, enabling them to communicate air-to-air and Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-85986122002-01-11T09:39:00.000-05:002002-01-11T09:39:46.826-05:00There was apparently a plot afoot to kill Florida governor Jeb Bush with a truck bomb. (When I first read that headline I thought: "They'd better investigate the faculties of the state university system -- I haven't had a professor yet who can mention his name without looking as if they want to spit.")
Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-85977112002-01-11T08:58:00.000-05:002002-01-11T09:41:27.000-05:00Here's a little gem from MSN on inappropriate office jokes. Guess what? It's not nice to make fun of minorities! Wow. Who knew?
Isn't there some way this could be expressed without talking down to grown-up business persons as if they were small children in grade school? Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-85711692002-01-10T12:57:00.000-05:002002-01-10T12:57:00.363-05:00Last Night's Thoughts:
I meant to post all this last night but was unable to due to Blogger difficulties:
A study is out linking household appliances to miscarriages, according to this article in the Telegraph. Something to do with the magnetic fields that trains and vacuum cleaners, among other things, emit. I don't know; I smell the faintest whiff of pseudo-science. I just flashed on a memoryAndreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-85711272002-01-10T12:55:00.000-05:002002-01-10T12:55:40.550-05:00Word Morgue
There's a new word I have decided to add to the list of words that have seen too much use and need to be given a rest (words such as "quagmire," "hegemony," and "paradigm," for instance: that word is "chilling."
I've seen it everywhere: the news commentators on the Right and Left use it to describe things that unnerve them: "Osama Bin Laden's laughter at the fate of the highjackers Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-85698262002-01-10T12:06:00.000-05:002002-01-10T12:08:43.000-05:00Daily Rant #1:
I was watching ABC news last night, and they were interviewing that guy with the "Redskins" license plate. (I think it says "1 RDSKINS" or something like that.) Well, his house is all Redskins, as in the football team, paraphernalia, and his wife also has a similar license plate on her car, with "2" instead of "1." But they have the misfortune to live in California, where it seemsAndreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-85686472002-01-10T11:23:00.000-05:002002-01-10T11:23:37.260-05:00Wow! 1,060 visitors -- and they weren't all from me loading the page at work. I hope.
In a pathetic, attention-getting move, I've moved the Amazon tip box up higher. See? It's right over there on the left. My cat is starting to give me that "I'll bet humans are tasty" look...
Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-85681252002-01-10T11:04:00.000-05:002002-01-10T11:05:14.000-05:00All right! Some new snarky comments soon, just as soon as I wake up.
Oh, and the comment thingie is there. Try it out.
Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-85680922002-01-10T11:03:00.000-05:002002-01-10T11:03:14.886-05:00I am going to try and publish this thing. Here goes.Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-85533272002-01-09T21:07:00.000-05:002002-01-09T21:07:53.853-05:00TestingAndreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-85531992002-01-09T21:02:00.000-05:002002-01-09T21:02:25.053-05:00Looks like publishing is back up, sorta. I'm not ready to abandon Blogger yet (not until I get my domain name and site and brush up on my HTML skills anyway). I am going to try to add a comment thingie to my site (found it on Protein Wisdom). We'll see. Now, let's try to publish this...Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-85384182002-01-09T09:02:00.000-05:002002-01-09T09:02:23.353-05:00Yes, I can publish.
Now that the new iMac is out, the one that looks like a desk lamp, maybe the older versions of iMacs will go down and price and I can buy one? Hmmm... I don't particularly care for the look of the new one -- I like my desk lamps to look like desk lamps and my computers to somewhat resemble computers; but then I have always used PCs, so I am used to that look. I sneered at theAndreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-85380762002-01-09T08:43:00.000-05:002002-01-09T08:43:41.213-05:00Oh no, publishing problems or no publishing problems, I have to get this down before I forget. I've got one of the morning shows on, and they are interviewing the guy who had some no-life fanatic complain about his "redskins1" license plate, which meant, of course, that he (the license-plate owner) is in trouble, not the busy-body. So of course they have to interview someone from "the other side,Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-85378902002-01-09T08:32:00.000-05:002002-01-09T08:32:32.656-05:00Twenty-five degrees last night in the Orlando area. That Brutal Florida Weather continues to threaten world peace! Where's Geraldo?
(You'll get all my snarky comments two weeks from now, probably, when I can finally get through Blogger's overloaded servers.)
Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-85231472002-01-08T18:53:00.000-05:002002-01-08T18:53:47.903-05:00Please, please read this blogger's article ripping Ted Rall yet another new one. The man must look like Swiss cheese by now (or he would in my alternate universe). I wonder if Rall realizes just how many of us LOVE him.
I will also add Protein Wisdom to my links as soon as publishing is back working.Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-85229242002-01-08T18:45:00.000-05:002002-01-08T18:45:10.570-05:00At 37.6% I am but a closet nerd. Take the test -- if you dare. (Via a newly found blog, Balloon Juice, which I will add to my links as soon as publishing is back up.)Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-85211202002-01-08T17:35:00.000-05:002002-01-08T17:35:38.390-05:00Today: via Instapundit I was led to the latest Mark Steyn column in the National Post. Yes, where is that "brutal Afghan winter" that so many assured us would freeze our soldiers to the seats of their F-15s, turn cute kiddies into popsicles, and generally make the country about as hospitable as the surface of Pluto. Well, maybe it's that way in the Alternate Tedrallian Universe, but here in this Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-85002532002-01-07T21:28:00.000-05:002002-01-08T17:25:51.000-05:00Links of the Day
I wish this article had come out when I was enrolled in Feminist Theory. (You'll have to register for the Times website, but it's free, like the New York Times.) I was alerted to this article from Andrew Sullivan's nicely revamped site.
(I love the little Britishisms the registration form uses, like telling one to "tick off" the checkboxes next to selections.)
Read this Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-84699762002-01-06T21:23:00.000-05:002002-01-06T21:23:48.883-05:00Travels in the Leftist World Redux
If Commondreams is bad, wait until you take a gander at the Utne Reader Online. Every once in a while I'd pick up an issue of the print magazine, usually when I was feeling somewhat constipated. On their website you can avail yourself of articles such as this one, on Jose Bove (I don't feel like opening Character Map again to get the accented e's), gentleman Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-84689962002-01-06T20:47:00.000-05:002002-01-06T20:47:45.000-05:00Warblogger Critiques Own Youthful Folly
No, not me, I happen to be perfect! Just kidding. Really, if I only had the ability to face up to my really bad writing/half-baked ideas (tries not to look at twenty-year-old handwritten diary she keeps on top of the vcr for some reason -- perhaps one day she will burn it in a special ceremony) like Bjørn Stærk does here. (I had to open up Character Map toAndreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-84687452002-01-06T20:36:00.000-05:002002-01-06T20:36:18.600-05:00Blog Update
I can't keep up with the blogs! Here's another: A Dog's Life.
Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-84660762002-01-06T18:43:00.000-05:002002-01-06T18:44:14.000-05:00I Was a Teenage Moron:
There I am, surfing innocently over to Ken Layne's website and what did I find but the link to this story about the teenager who flew his small (fortunately) plane into an empty (thank god) skyscraper in Tampa TWO HOURS DRIVE FROM WHERE I LIVE.
Thanks. I'm better now.
What I want to know is, where do they get teenage freaks like this kid and Johnny Walker Taliboy (who Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-84649592002-01-06T17:54:00.000-05:002002-01-06T18:00:38.000-05:00More Blogs
Do not mock Happy Fun Pundit.
Rantburg.
The Blogs of War.
More to be added later.
Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-84616492002-01-06T15:23:00.000-05:002002-01-06T15:28:18.000-05:00Anyone in the mood for a Fisking? Travels in the Leftist Universe
The Wonderful, Frightening World of Robert Fisk continues. He has a "headache as big as Afghanistan" because of all the awful, terrible lies the Western -- well, the American anyway -- media has been telling about the war and his unrequited love Osama Bin Laden. "Drugged by all the lies" he is rescued by his friend Vincent Browne,Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-84562732002-01-06T10:37:00.001-05:002002-01-06T10:38:11.000-05:00Removing this extra post...Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-84562692002-01-06T10:37:00.000-05:002002-01-06T10:37:15.273-05:00Thanks to Rand Simberg I came across this report on the Saudi Princess (the one here in Orlando who is accused of beating up her maid). Among other things, the article mentions that Orlando is the "No. 1 destination in the United States for Saudis" because of its "safe, organized" amusements. They should visit Disney during Gay Day...Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-84406492002-01-05T18:21:00.000-05:002002-01-05T18:57:31.000-05:00Speaking of Eeeville Corporate Machinations:
Tim Blair down in Australia takes on the anti-McDonalds cretins and squishes them into insignificant blots. I'm just going to make my own statement here: I like McDonalds. Maybe not as much as Burger King -- but then, BK ruined their fries with that bogus "crispy coating," which tastes like they fried the things in the plastic bag they came in. Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-84399612002-01-05T17:48:00.000-05:002002-01-05T17:49:13.000-05:00Legions of the Shallow, Part Deux:
I'd been seeing this name around the internet for the past few days, and couldn't remember who this Naomi Klein chick was. From the comments on other blogs I figured she was just another anti-West-though-I-live-here, capitalism-is-bad, self-aggrandizer. And I was right. I remember now that she wrote No Logo, all about how Eeeville Corporate Honchos are out to Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-84390352002-01-05T17:03:00.000-05:002002-01-05T17:04:06.000-05:00I have a task that might make anti-war, supposedly pro-the-poor-people-of-Afghanistan activists happy: start a fund to rebuild the ancient buddhas that the Taliban destroyed. (Link courtesy of Jeff Jarvis -- whose site is also worth reading today because of a retort to yet another poverty-causes-terrorism spouter.)Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-84233002002-01-04T23:28:00.000-05:002002-01-04T23:30:13.000-05:00I keep forgetting to extend my sympathies to Tim Blair concerning the fires in Sydney. I live in Florida, which about three and a half years ago experienced a similar situation of drought and fire. (It was these fires that inpired Pat Robertson to say that God was punishing Florida for Disney's gay-friendly policies. And courtesy of Andrew Sullivan, here is news that Mr. Robertson is at it againAndreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-84195362002-01-04T20:52:00.000-05:002002-01-04T20:52:05.486-05:00Anyway, enough of that. I STILL have not seen Lord of the Rings. I planned to do it either yesterday or today, but my stomach had OTHER ideas. I feel as if I have let my side (the Geeks) down. (By the way, I was watching Conan OBrien last week, or the week before... I can't remember when. Anyway, he had Kevin Pollak on, and they were both making fun of all the weird, geeky people who lined up allAndreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-84193032002-01-04T20:43:00.000-05:002002-01-04T22:25:21.000-05:00Important: Advice needed
I got an email from an AP reporter who is based where I live (Central FLorida - he doesn't say what paper he works for), and he wants to do a story on blogs. Here is his email:
Hiya. I'm (name), and AP newsman based - like you - here in
Orlando. (Actually, I'm a sportswriter wannabe; I also cover the
Magic.)
In any case, I'm interested in doing a feature piece on the Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-84189642002-01-04T20:27:00.000-05:002002-01-04T20:27:48.700-05:00Update: the reason I said "anyone who loves my blog..." in the post below is because Ms. Berlinksi emailed me to say that she loved my blog! I am still kind of woozy so I am having trouble being CLEAR tonight. Oy.
Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-84177452002-01-04T19:31:00.000-05:002002-01-04T20:25:55.000-05:00Well, I go and put up a tip box and then I bug out and don't post for days! I have an excuse: I've been down with a stomach virus, and the one time I did try to post (last night), my computer froze up and crashed, and I was still feeling too crappy to bother with rewriting anything.
Anyway, the first thing I want to do is to plug the wonderful Claire Berlinksi's new book, Loose Lips. Anyone who Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-83439722002-01-02T10:03:00.000-05:002002-01-02T10:03:13.683-05:00I've found another blog that linked to me: the Unablogger. (Note: if you are an uptight prude disapprove of pictures of nekkid ladies, don't go to this page!)
More good links and observations on Sgt. Stryker's blog.
I'm sluggish today; since I was too lazy to go to the grocery store, I have no cream for my coffee. I can't drink coffee without moo juice; I've tried, it just can't be done. I canAndreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204260.post-83210282002-01-01T13:04:00.000-05:002002-01-01T13:04:12.550-05:00What's up Stuart Reid's butt? It's hard to tell from this schizoid rant in the Daily Telegraph, but he seems to be displeased about the fact that the US efforts in Afghanistan did not result in Peace on Earth, and it also seems to piss him off that Sex in the City won some sort of award. He condemns the fact that women in Afghanistan haven't all tossed their burqas, and then in the next paragraphAndreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413541711301513897noreply@blogger.com