This is not a man with a blog.
I’m moving Sarah’s and my blogs to new servers this weekend, so lots of stuff may break. Be patient.
The latest issue of The Atlantic Monthly has a cover story on my favorite topic, piracy. Although historically piracy has been portrayed as romantic (it’s wasn’t), piracy in modern times is actually quite a bit easier to pull off, and it’s far more profitable. The techniques of modern day pirates, how and where they operate,…
Shit, I’m not reading. I’m just sitting here looking at my Hypercharger over and over again. What’s a hypercharger? Why it’s the beautiful thing in that photo. It shoves more air into the engine of my motorcycle, allowing me to get MORE POWER. Everyone who sees this asks, “Why you need to go faster?” Christ…
I’m so through with the analog world. For god’s sakes, don’t ever buy this scale. It’s pretty and all, but it was off by a few pounds, and I’ve been losing weight the past six weeks (new exercise/diet plan) and it convinced me I was lighter than I really was.
Ok, this is disturbing. I’ve logged over 100 hours playing
I blame James McManus for getting me hooked on poker. His article for Harper’s Magazine in 2000 on the World Series of Poker, in which he entered as a rank amateur and nearly won the tournament, was an excellent introduction to a game that is appropriately associated with people who smoke too much, don’t bathe,…
I’ve just received the story of the Segway, “Code Name Ginger”, from Amazon. I’m convinced that it’s really a ploy of HG Wells’ Morlocks to make us slower and fatter, for good eating.
The makers of Virtua Tennis 2 are going to use spray-painted pigeons to advertise their game at Wimbledon this year. Just how long before it becomes easier to raise genetically modified pigeons with the logos on them?
This is another Weschler book about how societies confront torturers after their regimes have fallen. Given the fact that Human Rights Watch says that as many as 290,000 people have gone missing in Iraq during the Saddam Hussein’s regime, one wonders, “How will society function without coming to terms with it?” They could take the…