Saturday, July 24, 2004
Little Wee Diary
It's Little Wee's last day at my house. I'll miss her terribly. But it won't be so bad; I've set up a webcam so I can check on her any time of day.
Posted by Daev @ 09:43 AM CST [Link]
Friday, July 23, 2004
Bigfoot sited.
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Tuesday, July 20, 2004
CW, as any Newsweek subscriber should know, stands for conventional wisdom. Basically, that's what you go on when you work forty-plus hours a week and don't have the time or energy to find out for yourself.
As demonstrated here in America's no. 1 news source.
Posted by Daev @ 09:10 PM CST [Link]
Jeezus -- look at the size of that 
rabbit.
Posted by Daev @ 07:19 PM CST [Link]
Sunday, July 18, 2004
Little Wee Diary
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Saturday, July 17, 2004
Little Wee Diary
Oh man. Little Wee is pissed.
Posted by Daev @ 05:54 AM CST [Link]
Friday, July 16, 2004
Here is a beautifully made flash adventure game. Help three little lost dudes find their way back to their friendly musical cult. Quest for the Rest
Posted by Daev @ 06:31 PM CST [Link]
Thursday, July 15, 2004
According to Reuters, the Science Museum in London might be planning of generation electricity from their visitors' doo doo.
Posted by Daev @ 09:56 PM CST [Link]
Here is a long and interesting article about the real Sweeney Todd, demon barber of fleet street.
Posted by Daev @ 01:39 PM CST [Link]
Wednesday, July 14, 2004
Tonight English Club meets at Tir Na Nog shpub.
Shpub is a new contraction I made up meaning Irish Pub. I am going to try to use it thirty times tonight in conversation.
Posted by Daev @ 01:38 PM CST [Link]
Monday, July 12, 2004
Nutria are not indigenous to Italy, of course. They're pesky Americans. They can be quite a pest. But they're so cute.
Posted by Daev @ 01:49 PM CST [Link]
Learned of a new word today: stemwinder, meaning a rousing speech. Here's why.
Before [Adrien Philippe's] invention, watches were wound just the same way as clocks, using a key. This was an awkward procedure and wise watch owners kept the key on their fob chain to be sure of not losing it.
Oh really? Now I have to go learn another new word: fob. I feared that was some kind of racial slur, but no; it is merely a vest pocket.
Anyhow, the text continues:
M Philippe added a knurled knob attached to a rod (or stem), which was permanently connected to the spring mechanism, making it much easier to wind.
Now that is fascinating. Now I have to go look up knurled. That means gnarled or milled, having multiple small grooves, as in the grooves on the side of the ol' watch stem, if you get my drift. They put those grooves in the edges of coins to deter shifty sneaky folks from sneakily shaving trace amounts off metal off the coins.
And to think that I thought stemwinding refers to apples. As children, we would wind the apple stem and go down the alphabet. The letter you called when the stem comes off is the initial of the name of the person you would marry. If it were true, everyone would be married to someone whose name starts with "g". This reminds me of Frank Zappa, who of course married Gail.
Posted by Daev @ 12:57 PM CST [Link]
Saturday, July 10, 2004
LWD -- First weekend
Confound this miserable cold weather. On my way home from work 'round lunchtime today I observed closely the faces of my fellow city dwellers and they all looked like, WTF? It's Ju-friggin'-ly for Pete's sake. [more]
Posted by Daev @ 10:35 AM CST [Link]
The other day, I believe while sitting at English Club, the topic of tapeworms came up. Sarah mentioned seeing a documentary where one fellow had a tapeworm removed--he said he wanted to get rid of it before he got married--and afterwards they took it and stretched it out full-length on the front lawn. It was about three meters long.
I was reminded of that because it is the birthday of Marcel Rroust, French writer known for writing about the intrinsic minutae of his everyday fictionalized life and writing some of the longest sentences in the history of literature.
And get this (quoted from the Writer's Almanac):
The longest sentence in the book, printed in average type and arranged
in a single line, is more than thirteen feet in length.
Which reminds me mighty of a tapeworm.
Posted by Daev @ 06:23 AM CST [Link]
Thursday, July 8, 2004
I'll resume regular blogging tomorrow or the next day. In the meantime,
Sammie's Obituary [more]
Posted by Daev @ 09:06 PM CST [Link]
Wednesday, July 7, 2004
There has been a death in my family.
Sammy (back row, center), the younger brother of my sister-in-law, Jen, died yesterday in hospital. He was taken to the hospital last Saturday to be treated for pancreatitis, an inflamation of the pancreas. He died of an ensuing heart failure around noon.
Sammy was in his early twenties.
Posted by Daev @ 05:30 PM CST [Link]
Tuesday, July 6, 2004
LWD v2 4 [more]
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Monday, July 5, 2004
Lil Wee v.2 day three [more]
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Sunday, July 4, 2004
Lil Wee v.2 day two [more]
Posted by Daev @ 04:34 PM CST [Link]
Did you see that guy with the nappy red hat make a suicide leap into (I believe) Greece's net?
According to his website, he is a highly motivated gatecrasher who wants to blow our uptight minds by--yes--gatecrashing.
The internet, however, has a word for these types: attention whore.
Still, it was kind of funny, especially when paired with the commentator's wry observation.
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Saturday, July 3, 2004
Little Wee Diary v.2 day one
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Friday, July 2, 2004
Put me on your album cover
Posted by Daev @ 08:40 AM CST [Link]
