Ok, that was unexpected
I was just IM’ing with friends and cleaning up the house when my brother called. It was the usual hi/how ya doing and then he asked about the iPhone, if I got one (no), why I didn’t get one (cost/coverage),...
Monthly Archive: June 2007
Fenty’s staffers gots iPhone line cuts?
According to a Consumerist tipster, Mayor Fenty’s staffers cut the iPhone line at a downtown AT&T store. So we’re all waiting outside and some of the people around me notice a double parked car with a driver and a few...
Afternoon Distractions
Cheers: Potential cure for HIV discovered In a breakthrough that could potentially lead to a cure for HIV infection, scientists have discovered a way to remove the virus from infected cells, a study released Thursday said. The scientists engineered an...
That’s supposed to be brotherly, not sisterly love
Officer loses job over ‘sex show’, a Philadelphia police office with 11 years on the force is being fired for conduct unbecoming an officer and lying during a departmental investigation. Internal Affairs found that [Norberto] Cappas, in September 2003, ordered...
Midnighter is.. y’know, that way…
Midnighter: DC’s Gay Superhero Could Use Some Rescuing: an AfterElton article about DC Comics’ Midnighter and his new solo series with a noticeable lack of sexuality. …the intelligent integration of his gayness is a goal at best sporadically reached. Not...
Pardon me while I drip…
It’s bad enough that we only have a single working elevator at the moment. It’s bad enough that it’s hotter than a three-peckered goat out side. But when the elevator buttons aren’t responding, either due to malfunction or someone deciding...
Overnight Prints might want to change their name
Overnight Prints is a great name and they did great work for my friend Bill’s business/calling cards, but when I went with a less simple design, even following their exact templates and guides… I wish they’d spent longer than a...
Cast the net too wide
I understand demographic marketing, but I got the following e-mail from amazon.com: Because you’re someone who has purchased books from Amazon.com, we wanted to remind you that “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the most anticipated book of the year,...
Sam the Eagle can finally get a date!
I could not have been happier to read “Bald Eagle Soars off Endangered List” this morning on the front page of the Wash Post Express. Here’s the link at the National Audubon Society: Bald Eagles Soar Back from the Brink:...
like, snippets, and some junk…
This is why chat logs should probably never be seen by anyone else: me: Is it wrong that I’m thinking of an iPhone in D&D magic terms, verbal, material, somatic components…? ev: no, it’s not wrong, but it’s incredibly geeky....