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Entries from June 2003

Day Out with the Bendies

Friday, June 20th, 2003 · Comments Off on Day Out with the Bendies

On March 26, 2002 Jen’s former coworker snapped this picture of Jen playing hooky from work. What was she doing? Cruising in a powder blue Pinto and playing with Evil and Mrs. Bendy, of course. Isn’t that what you would do if you were playing hooky?

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Tags: comedy

Gay Canadians

Friday, June 20th, 2003 · 1 Comment

Mark Morford in Stop The Gay Canadians! First icky legalized homosexual marriage, then the apocalypse. Conservative America trembles: “Hordes of quivering GOP lawmakers and vast throngs of proudly homophobic right-wing Christian Americans fell into an adorable tizzy the other day as the entire really, really big country of Canada announced it will change its law […]

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Tags: comedy

Bachelor(ette) Party in Vegas

Thursday, June 19th, 2003 · 2 Comments

Tomorrow 12 of us are heading to Sin City for a weekend of insanity and fun. It’s the combined bachelor/bachelorette party for me and Jen. It’s gonna be good. I’ll have lots of pictures, I’m sure, to post here when we return. And tonight we got our tickets all squared away for what’s bound to […]

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Tags: wedding

Smoke Free NASCAR

Thursday, June 19th, 2003 · 1 Comment

In the ongoing fight against big tobacco, I was pleased to learn today that NASCAR has cancelled its 33-year contract with JR Reynolds and brought on Nextel as its latest sponsor. Of course, JR Reynolds claims it was going to end the contract anyway, but I believe (at least I would like to believe) that […]

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Tags: the world

Psychology of Fanaticism

Thursday, June 19th, 2003 · 1 Comment

Arianna Huffington on WMDs And The Psychology Of Fanaticism: “By all accounts, the behind-the-scenes battle within the Bush administration over just what information should be used, or spun, or hidden, to make the case that Saddam Hussein posed an imminent threat to America and the rest of the world was a knockdown, drag-out fight between […]

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Tags: war

SF Towing Refund?

Thursday, June 19th, 2003 · 3 Comments

I read somewhere and have heard recently that due to all the towing company scandals going down in San Francisco lately, there’s some ruling wherein any individual who’s had his or her car towed within the past 5 years is eligible for a substantial refund — up to $400. I just posted to craigslist in […]

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Tags: san francisco

Link Propagation

Tuesday, June 17th, 2003 · Comments Off on Link Propagation

Catching up on recording a number of random links sent to me by Jen via email (to have on hand for future reference, as well as for your amusement): Weight Watchers recipe cards from 1974 Japanese kitty costumes Camp site in Mendocino (not comedic)

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Tags: web stuff

Sony TRV19 or TRV22

Tuesday, June 17th, 2003 · 2 Comments

Since my last entry on the topic, I’ve shifted my contenders in my search for a new MiniDV camcorder to focus solely on the Sony models. From everything I’ve read, the consistent message — especially in the message boards on Camcorderinfo.com, where there are quite a few strings comparing the TRV19 and the TRV22 — […]

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Tags: technology

Bushenstein

Monday, June 16th, 2003 · 1 Comment

Don’t let Bushenstein assemble his perfect, right-wing Supreme Court justices! Take action now.

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Tags: comedy

Spellbound

Monday, June 16th, 2003 · Comments Off on Spellbound

Friday night Jen, Jess, Ben, and I headed to the Embarcadero to see the excellent documentary Spellbound, which follows eight junior high kids from all across the country on their journey to the 72nd Annual (1999) Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. The film was much like one of Christopher Guest’s mockumentaries (This […]

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Tags: movies