Jenn last night as we were watching The War at Home on TiVo last night: “DELETE THIS.”
The first episodes of Threshold and Supernatural were pretty good, though, as was the season opener of Medium.

In honor of September 19 being Talk Like a Pirate Day, me hearties, click here to read this entire site in a more piratical frame of mind.
Thems that clicks will be the lucky ones.
More talkin’ like a pirate, aye, right enough, Captain.
From pirates to superheroes: Last Friday’s edition of Science Friday includes an interview with the author of the forthcoming The Physics of Superheroes. (It turns out that Peter Parker really is responsible for Gwen Stacy’s death and that Stan Lee and Norman Osborn didn’t really understand what terminal velocity means.)
A site I helped design years ago for Gail Simone is now the subject, more or less, of a Wikipedia entry. Weird. (The pink wasn’t my design decision, but everything else is my fault.) It’s also a little bittersweet to see the late Rob Harris credited for his help in developing the site. He was an amazing guy I miss often and deeply.
Also known as “I really should have dug Jenn’s camera out a few more times.”
Saturday night, around midnight, the middle of Manhattan. A pair of red ski boots sit alone on a park bench, no owner, no skiiers, no snow anywhere in sight on this September night.
The New York subway is apparently beset by iPod thieves, to the extent that there is signage on the subway trains announcing that “the headphones are a dead giveaway.” Luckily, my ear canals are freakishly small and the iPod ear buds are incredibly uncomfortable for me. Instead, I use a $10 pair of generic Walkman headphones.
I had thought that my brother was the only person in the city who says “excuse me.” I was wrong. A 10 year old boy at Office Max said it on Sunday. Clearly, whatever it is that beats the manners out of New Yorkers hadn’t happened to him yet, or at least the process was not yet complete.
The video for “Everything to Me,” the first single off of Liz Phair’s new album, Somebody’s Miracle, is now at Yahoo! Music.
(Exasperatingly, it doesn’t seem to work with Firefox. This is what I keep Internet Explorer around for: those once a month instances where a site only seems to work with IE.)
Well, I’m back.
Sunday, we discussed the proper amount of baking soda for pancakes, I had my one hot coffee for the year, walked around some more and had a Reuben (well, it was a panini Reuben — even this most sacred of sandwiches is not immune to being swept up in the New York trendy food of the moment).
Joel’s friend Jeff and his lovely significant other came over to visit. Beginning in early October, they’ll be in Tanzania for a year, tracking the distribution of AIDS medication in sub-Saharan Africa. That said, Jeff was horrified that I would be flying out to Southern California. I’m pretty sure these sorts of attitudes are how the east/west rap wars started.
Then I caught a plane, whereupon I read most of my brother’s copy of Freakanomics, in the hopes of ripping off some of their good questions as jumping off points for articles of my own. When someone builds that particular better mousetrap, rest assured I will be the first one to their door.
Once back on Californian soil, I was rewarded with 1) my hot and sexy wife, 2) no humidity, 3) a Double Double, Animal Style.
It’s good to be home.
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