The Eve of Destruction

Posted on March 16, 2003 by Solonor

I avoid politics like the plague. It gets too many otherwise lovely people upset, and it turns otherwise mature people into schoolchildren (“No, YOU’RE a doo-doo head!”). But, since it looks like tomorrow or some time this week we’ll be doing the unthinkable – attacking a country that has not attacked us, which has an army the size of the Maine state militia and an air force smaller than the crop dusting fleets of some large farming conglomerates – I just wanted to make sure I have it straight:

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It’s Nominatin’ Time

Posted on March 16, 2003 by Solonor

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I didn’t expect a Spanish Inquisition

Posted on March 16, 2003 by Solonor

The Spork Queen has become a newsfeed evangelist. If you don’t have an XML newsfeed – or if you’re not using the latest and greatest – do yourself a favor and go over to Unix Gal’s site and get copies of the templates you should be using. If you don’t, you run the risk of going unread for eternity!

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Your mother was a hamster

Posted on March 16, 2003 by Solonor

I heard a good one on Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me yesterday.

Question: How will the French gain revenge for the U.S. House cafeteria’s renaming of french fries as “Freedom Fries”?
Answer: In France, from now on, American cheese will be known as… American cheese!

UPDATE: Linkmeister points us in the direction of the weblog of Adam Felber – whose quote I liberally mangled.

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I’m Glad I Wasn’t Home

Posted on March 15, 2003 by Solonor

Subj: It was HORRIBLE!!!
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 18:16:06 -0500
From: Grump
I was watching cable TV, but switched to DVD for a while. Then, when I went back to TV, NOTHING was there!. I reset the box, but it couldn’t get a signal!

At that point, I figured I’d get online… only … it was … HORRIBLE!!!
THERE WAS NO INTERNET CONNECTION!!! NONE!!! NOTHING!!! NADA!!! ZILCH!!!

NO INTERNET!!! For almost FIVE HOURS!!!

The withdrawal pains were terrible! I SUFFERRED! GREATLY!!!

FIVE HOURS WITHOUT INTERNET ACCESS!!!

Oh, the AGONY!!!

… but I got better.

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Beware the Ides of Zuly!

Posted on March 15, 2003 by Solonor

I really, really have to get with it and put together a blogger birthday calendar. That way I’ll be prepared for things like Zuly’s Birthday!

Go wish her a happy last-year-of-her-twenties… assuming her profession that she’s 29 today is no fabrication…

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Humor Me

Posted on March 15, 2003 by Solonor

I usually see these “What kind of [insert goofy idea here] are you?” quizzes on other sites, take them, and toss them. But I couldn’t pass up the chance to announce that my humor is EUCRASIA:

You exemplify a proper mixture of the four humors, or eucrasia. Unduly misproportioned humors cause disease, named dyscrasia.
You are, in fact, unnaturally healthy. Check your pulse; you may be dead.

See? I have perfect humor. Laugh, dammit!

What? Oh. It’s not that kind of humor, eh? Rats. Never mind.

Take this quiz!
Which Humor Troubles the Disposition of YOUR Body?

[ Well, at least they got Andrea pegged. ]
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Is This Ping On?

Posted on March 14, 2003 by Solonor

Testing… testing… I turned off all my publicity pinging to test Jason DeFillippo’s Blogrolling Pinger. If it works, all the Blogrolling users should see me as updated without the use of Weblogs.

Revolution in the air…

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The Cynic’s Tea Party

Posted on March 14, 2003 by Solonor

It’s Friday and time for Solonor’s Aortal Site of the Week. This week’s bit o’ fun comes from the Laughing Muse and is called The Cynic’s Tea Party.

Going in search of a new blog to plug each week is really cool. Mostly this is because it allows me to peer into the minds of new people (and maybe make a new friend). But the fringe benefits are in finding delicious treats like The Very Secret Diaries of the Lord of the Rings.

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Ryze Up!

Posted on March 14, 2003 by Solonor

After seeing it mentioned all over the place, I thought I’d give Ryze – business networking a whirl. Ryze is a site for developing business networks. No, not the TCP/IP kind – the human interaction kind. It’s not always what you know…

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