Archive for May, 2007
Thursday, May 31st, 2007
NPR at last!
No, not like that; I haven’t been selected for the NPR Talent Quest (though you do still have a couple days left to register on the site and vote favorably on my entry, if you feel so kind). But I did get an excited voicemail this afternoon from a friend who was listening to […]
5 Comments » - Posted in Culture, Netroots, Politics by shelbinator
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
Eight days later, the planet dies
Call me the Silver Surfer. You might start thinking I break death and destruction everywhere I go if my research were any indication. Before I call it a night, let me recount the delicious saga, for posterity, because as I get closer to actually accomplishing anything, fate throws monkeywrenches at an ever-increasing frequency […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Cracktastic, Rant by shelbinator
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
Joe in the spotlight
My homeboy is in the YouTube YouChoose Spotlight this week.
No, I will not be using SexyBack in this response.
6 Comments » - Posted in Netroots, Politics by shelbinator
Friday, May 25th, 2007
Hey, I’m right here!
Ah, the price of fame! Getting my smiling mug into Hillary’s latest video might help fan the flames of my egomania to apocalyptic proportions, but there are pundits always ready to beat it back down to a smolder. Ben Smith of The Politico compliments my boyish looks
Clinton teasingly includes a handful of angry, […]
9 Comments » - Posted in Geekery, Netroots, Politics, Rant by shelbinator
Thursday, May 24th, 2007
I can’t get into a furnace
…but I can get into some YouTube. Hat tips to Rusty, Sara, and Catherine for alerting me to my own success.
I have to say, considering how badly she flopped right out of the gate on her time in the YouTube YouChoose Spotlight — referring viewers to her website to vote for a pre-selected set […]
5 Comments » - Posted in Netroots, Politics by shelbinator
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
Monica Yearling
What on earth can we make of a House committee hearing when the main element of the entire lead-up coverage has been about how delicate and crying-prone the witness is? I figured it was just the media looking for something juicy to talk about (like the borderline criminal conduct throughout the DOJ and a […]
17 Comments » - Posted in Politics by shelbinator
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
Loyal companion
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sarah-rodz, originally uploaded by shelbinator.
Always trying to help me gradumacate.
1 Comment » - Posted in Cracktastic, Photo by shelbinator
Monday, May 21st, 2007
She’s bringing sexy back
Click To Play
Senator Hillary Clinton posted her YouTube YouChoose Spotlight video asking for advice on what her campaign theme song ought to be (thought she didn’t actually want video feedback — she just wanted us to go vote on her website). I thought I had some good ideas…but there are just too many blowback issues […]
11 Comments » - Posted in Netroots, Politics, Video by shelbinator
Friday, May 18th, 2007
Giuliani fails physics, Biden passes theology, Senate works a miracle
Random political thoughts on an anticlimactic Friday afternoon:
First of all, what little shred of respect I had left in a sock drawer for Rudy “the drag queen” Giuliani evaporated as of the second Republican debate when he chastised crazy-netroots-phenomenon Ron Paul for the heinous crime of recognizing blowback.
Yes, Rudy, we get it: you lived through […]
No Comments » - Posted in Politics by shelbinator
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
There is no try
Obviously, Yoda never taught at the North Avenue Trade School, because the motto of esteemed Georgia Tech’s Mechanical Engineering Machine Shop seems to be, for me at least, “We can try.”
Last week, my committee and I came up with an emergency backup plan to have some new specimens made lickity-split to get some basic data […]
