There is so much to say about the recent S&P downgrade of the United States’ creditworthiness, and it’s pretty much all been said. Hell, it had all been said a month ago. However, I happened to be listening to the radio yesterday when President Obama’s speech (finally) began, so I paid attention, mostly out of … Read more
I briefly mentioned last week that I was finally digitizing my VHS collection, with the aid of this little thingamajig and associated unpolished-but-effective software. Said collection consists of two dozen or so painstakingly recorded cassettes. I made them between 1987 and 1992, mostly in my bedroom at my dad’s house, holding the remote and doing … Read more
Sometime in college, or maybe shortly thereafter, Charles and I were at a party and this girl introduced herself as “the other one.” I said “what does that mean, ‘the other one’?” She replied “well, you know like in Wilson Phillips, there’s the pretty one, the fat one, and the other one. I’m the other … Read more