Archive for January, 2006

For Those Long Distance (With Charges) Relationships

Saturday, January 14th, 2006

I simply cannot count the number of ways in which this is wrong.
A bluetooth vibrator. Your lover can text you special messages from quite a long way away (anywhere there’s a phone network, really), and when your phone receives it, it transmits it via bluetooth to the vibrator, which I guess you’re just wearing [...]

I Cooked Chicken Tonight

Friday, January 13th, 2006

I’ve been a vegetarian (more or less) since I was, say, twelve years old. My sister became vegetarian after a trip to DC when she was about five or six years older than that, and because I did everything my sister did, I went vegetarian.
In the past 7-8 years I have gradually eaten a [...]

Communication Anxiety

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

In a great post about how political bloggers tend to shy away from speaking about certain subjects, Kevin Drum writes, “They figure that saying nothing is better than the risk of getting crucified for saying something wrong.” Sadly there are enough pompous blowhards all too willing to speak up on subjects about which they [...]

2005: The Music To Which I Listened

Sunday, January 1st, 2006

But that was then, and this is now.
2005 was a strange year. According to iTunes, I seem to have acquired about the same amount of music I did in 2004. And yet I can’t seem to remember much of anything off the top of my head. Probably because I was focusing on [...]