Ragged Clown

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Monthly Archives: July 2006

Jul
21
2006

Football Tournament

I am playing in a football tournament tomorrow in Morgan Hill. We have three 60 minute games. In the middle of the day. In the middle of the desert. Hope it’s not hot! Forecast says “partly cloudy” so it should … Continue reading

Jul
21
2006

What’s for Breakfast

Scott Adams is a metaphor At some point, probably about 32 seconds into my commute, it dawned on me that I had inadvertently become a metaphor for life in general. Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job … Continue reading

Jul
20
2006

Ron and the Art

Ron Jeffries, on the agile-testing mailing list said The last couple of times I read it, I took a somewhat different lesson from /Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance/, having to do with one’s own level of caring, and … Continue reading

Jul
20
2006

Dumbing it Down

There is a vicious cycle that repeats over and over and over. A brilliant movie is about to be made/beer is about to be brewed/tv show is about to filmed/newspaper is about to be published and the money men get … Continue reading

Jul
20
2006

Magic Roundabout?

If they ever plan to make a movie from a book/cartoon/comic/video game that you love you need to think carefully before going to see it. If that, let’s say, cartoon was made 40 years ago and you have ever so … Continue reading

Jul
20
2006

Best One Ever

When I lived in Manhattan, I remember this one time when we were going to head out to Long Island with Georgina’s cousins and I was really, really thirsty. I had never been so thirsty in all my life. I … Continue reading

Jul
18
2006

Depends what the meaning of “pro” is

Ah! So that’s ok then, Well, objectively (and it’s Orwell’s original usage), I am pro-Kim Jong-Il, There is something vaguely ironic about quoting Orwell to justify the creative redefinition of a commonly used word like “pro”.

Jul
18
2006

Objectively Pro-Dictator

Andrew Sullivan said As for my later comments about opponents of the Iraq war being “objectively pro-Saddam,” that seems to me to be indisputable. Sullivan wants us to believe that the conservatives who have lately been criticising the war in … Continue reading

Jul
18
2006

My Favourite Senator

He and I got off on the wrong foot with his involvement in the Clinton impeachment but Linsey Graham has been nothing but marvellous since he joined the senate. Definitely my favourite senator. What I’m trying to do with my … Continue reading