Archive for December, 2006

Saturday, December 30th, 2006

Future history lesson: Somalia

While some might say Ze Frank’s primary deliverable is giggly entertainment, he also has a knack for doing the research you don’t want to and fitting it into a three minute niblet. With verve. I thought Thursday’s dossier on the current Somalia situation would be a good thing to share to bring us […]

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Saturday, December 30th, 2006

March of progress

Up next for Iraq:

NASCAR
Child-molesting Imams in the closet
Reality TV, including “Whore Swap” and “Survivor: Getting Milk at the Marketplace”
Teaching creationism in madrassas
WWE Hackdown
K Street Project (wait, we brought that already)

What am I missing?

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Saturday, December 30th, 2006

The nadrubloda bill

The nadrubloda bill

Originally uploaded by shelbinator.

5 Comments » - Posted in Geekery, Photo, Social by shelbinator

Friday, December 29th, 2006

NaDruBloDa smackdown

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Friday, December 29th, 2006

NaDruBloDaPic

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Originally uploaded by shelbinator.

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Friday, December 29th, 2006

NaDruBloDa

Suddenly and at the eleventh hour, I’ve decided to participate in a nascent internet phenomenon: National Drunk Blogging Day. Not that I’m advocation advocatin’ [dammit!] drunkenness, mind you; I’m 32 years old, for crying out loud, and way, way more mature than I was just a few minutes ago. No, I just figured […]

10 Comments » - Posted in Geekery, Social by shelbinator

Sunday, December 24th, 2006

Why I’m a bachelor

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15 Comments » - Posted in Homelife, Mobile by cellphone

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

Fox’s

My parents met here thity-odd years ago and it’s still an awesome tavern.

3 Comments » - Posted in Mobile by shelbinator

Friday, December 15th, 2006

Code monkey

Code monkey

Programmer-turned-musician Jonathan Coulton. Funny, catchy stuff.

2 Comments » - Posted in Cool things, Recommends by shelbinator

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

The devil you know

A couple of months ago, you may recall, I left work early and holed up at a bar to have a little pity-party for myself when I discovered that my dream post-doc fellowship was out of reach. Surprisingly enough, the intense binge of pathos did the trick, and the next day I felt pretty […]

4 Comments » - Posted in Cracktastic, Introspection by shelbinator