Archive for June, 2006
Friday, June 30th, 2006
Say again? Say again?
I’m one of those people who watches the Superbowl every year just to see the creative new commercials; I really couldn’t give a crap about two NFL teams I have no connection to, but I do appreciate a well crafted 30 second message that entertains while it sells — you know, like that little gecko […]
No Comments » - Posted in Culture, Geekery, Rant, Video by shelbinator
Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
Random thoughts on morning
I’ve always thought of myself as an NPR aficionado. One of those snooty NPR fans who considers it a moral obligation to send them money and whose face takes on a fart-detecting grimace upon meeting someone who doesn’t listen to NPR. However, after getting my morning news for the better part of a year from […]
4 Comments » - Posted in Homelife, Random by shelbinator
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
How many licks…
…does it take to get to the center of a Sarah-pop? I imagine I will learn the answer to this question, at least to the nearest hundred or so, over the next few days as my stupid dog tries to extract herself from her cherry candy shell.
I buy her rawhide bones. I buy her Kongs […]
1 Comment » - Posted in The Dogfather by shelbinator
Monday, June 19th, 2006
Stunning turn: al Muhajir resigns from al Qaeda
NAJAF, Iraq — Abu Hamza al Muhajir has resigned as al Qaeda’s figurehead in Iraq after problems with claims he made on his resume were uncovered.
Shelbinator.com has learned that, according to warlords in Ruffa, Sudan, Abu Hamza never earned a master of arts degree in explosives and demolitions at their former al Qaeda training camp, […]
1 Comment » - Posted in (In)security, Oniony by shelbinator
Wednesday, June 14th, 2006
Gotta feed the monkey
It ain’t plagiarism if you copy yourself. I figure if I blow my creative wad at my “work” blog, I might as well get some points for it here as well.
For exactly 15 days and 36 minutes, I have been living the cleaner life of the non-smoker and thinking about ways to kill people […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Politics, Rant by shelbinator
Monday, June 12th, 2006
New threat: suicide hangers
How long before Faux News starts calling them “homicide hangers?”
The suicides of three detainees at the US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, amount to acts of war, the US military says. … The men were found unresponsive and not breathing by guards on Saturday morning, said officials. … They hanged themselves with […]
3 Comments » - Posted in (In)security, Politics, Rant by shelbinator
Friday, June 9th, 2006
Good days, bad days
Yesterday was such a good day at work, it was a shame I didn’t have the energy to make more of it. I was up at the crack of dawn, much to the chagrin of my self-destructing body, to put the finishing touches on a progress report for my technical monitor at the company funding […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Cracktastic, Work by shelbinator
Friday, June 9th, 2006
Clean livin’
Walking home from work today, I took a bit of a detour to drop something off for Artie at the Vortex, and I noticed for the first time that the erstwhile all-night gay dance club Backstreet and a couple of attached businesses were gone. Like, gone gone, nonexistent gone, and when I say “noticed […]
No Comments » - Posted in Homelife by shelbinator
Tuesday, June 6th, 2006
Like a virgin
Let’s see….
Osama bin Laden? Still on the loose and sending us mix-tapes.
Taleban? Preparing to retake Afghanistan.
The Geneva Convention? Now removed entirely from Army field manuals.
Cargo containers coming into our ports? Still 94% unscreened.
National energy policy? Dictated by oil company execs.
Minimum wage? Hasn’t changed since I bought my first 1.5-pound […]
