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Look Ma! I know people. 1970-01-01 00:59:59 If you went to the University of Florida, this is for you. https://incircle.ufalumni.ufl.edu/If not, just sign up for Friendster, it's really the same thing. Read more:people
websites and t-shirts 1970-01-01 00:59:59 If you haven't already read about the Flying Spaghetti Monster, pirates, and intelligent design, here's your chance. And, buy t-shirts, especially these two: Dad and Booty.Speaking of t-shirts, I can't believe how much trouble they can get you into. Like Cindy Sheehan, for example. As usual, I defer to the Achenblog's take on the subject.
first post 1970-01-01 00:59:59 This is my first post
. Ever. And I have now realized that this will be the most boring blog ever.
Introducing the PH4H Blog! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 The PH4H Blog is now up and running. And, if you want a bumper sticker, I hear Dan has some leftover. Read more:Introducing
Coming soon to a theater near you . . . 1970-01-01 00:59:59 . . . it's the sequel to Clerks. Read all about it straight from the View Askew website, and also in this week's USA Today here and here.And, for fun, here's a picture we took a couple weeks ago outside of the strip mall featured in Clerks, on a random trip through New Jersey: Read more:theater
I don't get it 1970-01-01 00:59:59 William Shatner confounds me. He's released weird albums with strange cover songs. He plays weird characters in bad movies and TV shows. And, he did all of those annoying priceline ads.And yet, sci-fi nerds still worship him. There's no other excuse for a Shatner DVD club.
Weekly Poll 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Only two people have voted in the mouse-related poll so far, and I know the identity of both voters.Vote now, and I will post the results, and a new poll, on Friday. Read more:Weekly
More t-shirts 1970-01-01 00:59:59 This might be the best site for t-shirts on the internet, as long as you don't mind waiting for them to be shipped from Canada. My friends will recognize several of them, including "I {heart} irony", "Lawyers do it in front of a jury of their peers", "Please touch my monkey", and "Swedish Mafia: efficient but deadly".
Celebrity Guitars 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Forbes ran an interesting article on guitars of the stars. While it's not mentioned in the article -- since the article treats the subject guitars with a sort-of academic reverence -- my personal favorite celebrity guitar belongs to John Rzeznik of the Goo Goo Dolls, because it has a sticker that says "Lawyers Suck". Read more:Celebrity
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Mouse-related Poll Results 1970-01-01 00:59:59 In the mouse related
Weekly Poll, I asked what you would do if you had a live mouse stuck in a glue trap and making noise at 3:00 in the morning. The choices were to leave it there, scream/cry/both, call your parents, set it free, throw out the entire trap, kill it, and "other."As of the close of the poll, only four votes were cast. Admittedly, I was hoping more people would vote on my stupid question. More importantly, out of the 80-plus counted visitors to the blog, this is a horrible ratio.Regardless, here are the poll results. One person voted for leaving the mouse in the glue trap, one voted for setting the mouse free, and another voted for throwing out the trap, mouse and all. Justin voted for "other", but when pressed, he explained that he just wanted me to ask him what the "other" was. I asked, but am not sure if I ever really got an answer.A new poll is now available. Vote here. Read more:Mouse
Movie recommendation 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Stranger Than Fiction is the best movie I have seen in a long time. It is smart, funny, tragic, silly, and interesting.Go see it. Now.
Fixing the AMT 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Remember back when I said that the alternative minimum tax sucks? Before I started saying crazy shit like if it were the only tax system, it might be okay, since it would be kinda like a flat tax?Lucky for us, the Post reports that the Democrats were listening.Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.), the presumptive chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, this week put fixing the AMT at the top of his agenda, calling it far more urgent than dealing with President Bush's request to extend the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, which are scheduled to expire in 2010.Here's some background:The complex and expensive tax was designed to prevent the super-rich from using deductions, credits and other shelters to avoid paying the Internal Revenue Service. But because of rising incomes, the tax is expected to expand to more than 30 million taxpayers in 2010 from 3.8 million mostly well-off households in 2006.***In simple terms, the AMT is sort of a flat tax with two brackets, 26 and 28 p
Yet another crazy lunch story 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Since I'm not exactly getting peppered with questions, I've decided to devote a couple minutes to writing about my most recent lunchtime controversy.Yesterday, I had a quick appointment in between Farragut West and Foggy Bottom. I decided that I'd walk there and back, and grab lunch along the way back to my office, since the weather was divine -- probably for the last time until next Spring.Plus, it seemed like an excellent day to walk down by the White House.So, on the way back, I stopped to grab a sandwich at Cosi, as I am wont to do. I decided, fat and calories be damned, I was going to try the Turkey Bacon Cheddar Melt. I ordered, and specifically asked them to hold the honey mustard (I hate mustard) and to put the sandwich on the new Etruscan whole-wheat bread.During the fifteen-minute walk back to my office with the sandwich, I was so excited about that sandwich. The Cosi next door to my office has been closed for so long that I had almost forgotten how good their bread tastes Read more:story
Ask Dara Anything! Round 3 1970-01-01 00:59:59 It's a quiet holiday Friday around here. So, to amuse myself, I thought I'd sponsor another round of "Ask Dara Anything!"It's exactly what it sounds like. The rules are simple: Just post your question in the comments section, and I'll answer it.
Awesome awesomeness 1970-01-01 00:59:59 If you haven't seen it yet, check out The Daily Show's cartoon about Midterm Elections. It's full of awesome-y goodness. Read more:awesomeness
Poll Result and New Poll 1970-01-01 00:59:59 For the second week in a row, the poll asked you to pick the best non-scary movie to watch for Halloween. The choices were Shaun of the Dead and Edward Scissorhands.And the winner is:Both are excellent movies, so I can see why the vote was so close.As always, the new poll is up. Vote here. Read more:Result
CNN, always reporting on the important issues of the day 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Something to ponder at lunchtime: The trend in celebrity divorces.According to the experts at CNN
, it's now de rigueur for the successful woman to divorce her less-successful mate. And they even throw in a bit of advice for regular folk:[W]e can and should learn from these celebrity bustups, where the woman, traditionally the financially dependent spouse, leaps beyond the man in terms of money and power, creating inevitable fissures in the union. More practically, they say, professional women need to learn to protect their assets -- as in demanding a prenuptial agreement -- before they head to the altar.Aaaw. Ain't it sweet. Read more:always
Accent? 1970-01-01 00:59:59 This is a very popular quiz this week -- it's been everywhere, including Gene Weingarten's chat. So, I took it. And the results are, uh, peculiar:What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.PhiladelphiaThe NortheastThe Inland NorthThe SouthBostonThe WestNorth CentralWhat American accent do you have?Take More QuizzesThis says I have no accent. It's wrong, though, because I have a combination of accents.I mean, I grew up in New Jersey, roughly halfway between New York and Philly, and then moved to Southeast Florida. I went to college in Tallahassee, which is pretty darn southern -- enough that I can -- and do --
Punchline question 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I'm trying to figure out the funnier twist to the story that a Florida absentee ballot was mailed with a rare stamp: Is it that 1) the law requires that it remain in a locked ballot box until it is destroyed; or 2) the idea that the stamp might be a fake?
Learning something new 1970-01-01 00:59:59 This weekend, I decided to learn something
new -- how to knit.My mom taught me how to crochet when I was younger -- and I learned how to sew and do cross-stich in home-ec -- but I never managed to learn how to knit.On Sunday, while shopping with some friends, I saw this kit -- which seemed to be aimed at children -- and figured that it couldn't be too difficult.Last night, while watching TV, I started making the first couple of stitches. Today, I think I'm starting to get the hang of it:Admittedly, this is very simple. It's a scarf, so there are no complications like sleeves, or round edges, or anything. Plus, it's only one color yarn, and a simple pattern where I'm knitting one row and then purling the next.Still, I'm kinda proud of myself. Read more:Learning
Chicken or egg? 1970-01-01 00:59:59 When I got home last night, I crashed. I was on the verge of making myself dinner, and instead, I went to go lie down, "just for a minute."Yeah, right. I should know better by now. I don't do short naps.I wound up sleeping for just over 2.5 hours, while still dressed in my work clothes.The problem? I woke up, and couldn't fall back to sleep until around 2:30 in the morning.Of course, now I feel like complete and total crap. And I'm left wondering if the napping was a sign that I was getting sick, or whether it made me sick? Read more:Chicken
On other people's writing 1970-01-01 00:59:59 It's a literature-type day on the blog. Mostly to make up for all the politics-type days of the past few weeks.First, thanks to Boing Boing, check out these two sites posting reviews where people
trash talk about classic works of literature.First: Defective Yeti. Examples of the brilliance found here are include some brilliant mind compared The Great Gatsby to Beverly Hills 90210, and his intellectual equal decreeing that 1984 is no longer relevant due to the fall of communism. (Had to get a little politics in there, heh heh.)Second: Charlie's Diary. Here, a chronologically challenged person took issue with Romeo and Juliet because it was similar to other stories. Fun for the whole family.And here, thanks to Minijonb, I give you a literary meme.One book that changed your life: 1984 (George Orwell). I loved the book, loved the story, loved everything about it. It made me want to be a writer. More importantly, it made me start questioning my government, which, in theory, made me a bett Read more:writing
History of Dara, part 6 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I was looking through some papers yesterday, and stumbled across a two chapter attempt at writing my autobiography. It was written right around the time I graduated from college. In retrospect, I clearly had no business writing an autobiography at that point in my life, but I had a couple tales to tell. Plus, my last semester was a summer semester, and my roommate left after the first six-week session, so I had a lot of time to kill. I'm going to save the chapter on my telemarketing jobs for a later date, but here's the chapter about my trip to Paris. Enjoy.The summer after my first year of college, I went on a study abroad program in London. This program also included a four-day trip to Paris. I was so excited to be going to Paris that I did not accurately prepare for the trip. I forgot my French-to-English dictionary, I packed all the wrong clothes, and I left my umbrella in my flat. Coincidentally, all it did was rain while I was there.The first thing I noticed as I step Read more:History
Slow news day 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Since there's clearly no important local or national news today (*cough *cough), the über-hip and trendy (*cough *cough) Washington Post has an article about the dangers of the new (*cough *cough) trends: body piercing and tattoos.I mean, who knew you could get an infection?Um. Most people.Disclaimer: I have five regular earrings, and a piercing in the cartilage of my left ear. I used to have two more earrings. And, once upon a time, I had a belly-button ring -- way back before I had to wear suits and hose to work, subjecting myself to infection. One of my siblings has other piercings. Both of my siblings have tattoos. (Note: It's not true that they can't be buried in a Jewish cemetery.)People, it's not that big a deal. You did dumb stuff when you were a teenager/in your early twenties. Kids still do dumb stuff. It's not newsworthy. Move on.
How not to behave at your polling place 1970-01-01 00:59:59 If you haven't voted yet, you still have time. Just don't do this:A man who reportedly believed Republicans were conspiring to steal today's election entered an Allentown polling site, signed in and proceeded to smash the screen of one of the electronic voting machines with a metal cat paperweight, poll volunteers said.Alas, it was to no avail:Lehigh County Board of Elections Chief Clerk Stacy J. Sterner said votes recorded on the machine were saved. More than 130 people had voted at the site by the time of the incident."The good news is that even though the machine is broken, the votes are not lost on the memory card. They have them in custody at the voter registration office," Sterner said.
Just for the record 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I voted today -- surprise, surprise. (And not just because Justin told me to.)The whole process took about an hour, but I feel pretty good about it. My opinion might change, however, if the proposed Marshall-Newman Amendment passes.Here's the text:Shall Article I (the Bill of Rights) of the Constitution of Virginia be amended to state:"That only a union between one man and one woman may be a marriage valid in or recognized by this Commonwealth and its political subdivisions.This Commonwealth and its political subdivisions shall not create or recognize a legal status for relationships of unmarried individuals that intends to approximate the design, qualities, significance, or effects of marriage. Nor shall this Commonwealth or its political subdivisions create or recognize another union, partnership, or other legal status to which is assigned the rights, benefits, obligations, qualities, or effects of marriage"?Forget about George Allen, bond initiatives, or any of the other crap.
New additions 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Some people blog about their pets; I blog about my shoes. Meet the new additions to the family:Via Target and Kenneth Cole, respectively.
Pop Culture Litmus Test 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I saw Interview's Pop Culture
test today (thanks Gawker!).I am astounded that I can only identify ten of them without resorting to Google or Wikipedia. Therefore, I've concluded that Interview is way out of my league.Accordingly, I've decided that I ought to come up with my own Pop Culture reference test. Possible candidates from recent blog posts include:George Allen Stephen Baldwin Charles Barkley Bono Tim Burton Kirk Cameron Naomi Campbell Neko Case Eric Dane Patrick Dempsey Devo Ted HaggardLogan EchollsTina Fey Mark Foley Kinky Friedman Lorelai GilmoreJeffrey, Michael, Uli & Laura Alex P. KeatonJimmy KimmelMichael Kors Rush Limbaugh Richard Linklater Dave Navarro Chris O'Donnell O.K. Go Matthew Perry Ryan Phillipe Trent Reznor Santino Rice Alex Rodriguez Al SharptonSlash & Axl Wesley Snipes Jeff Suppan Bill Watterson Jim Webb Gene Weingarten E.B. White Bradley Whitford Wegmans Michelle Williams Scoring: If you can't identify the majority of these names, then clearly, this
An Observation 1970-01-01 00:59:59 It is very time consuming to label 915 blog posts. Read more:Observation
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