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Month: April 2005
Polling Problem
Well, Pollhost seems to have lost the data for polls on several of the websites I’ve visited, including the data for the last poll I ran. I’ve decided to go with something a little different, this time. I was looking through my cookbooks this morning and ran across the funniest passage in the recipe for Peking Duck, in a little book out of Hong Kong that was sent to me by my sister and her husband: Mix syrup, wine, and vinegar well and rub into the duck in windy place. I think the original (in Chinese) probably meant in a …
Snackyness
I absolutely hate the word “snacky” in all of its manifestations. It’s not the fault of the word itself. It’s the fact that someone I used to know—someone a little too trendy, a little bit annoying—used to use it all the time. She especially loved to refer to people as “snacky”. It was a pretentious grad-school trendoid thing, as far as I can tell, being as politically incorrect as she could be—for sometimes, snacky was merely a mark of approbation, but sometimes I got the sense it was a purely anthropophagous sexual term. In any case, it always struck me …
Actually Playing a Game Now
Usually, I want nothing to do with the games that some of the guys at the office are always talking about—computerized wargames bore me most of the time. But for once, I’ve given in and now I’m running a country in the massive online game called Jennifer Government: Nation States. It’s based on a novel (titled Jennifer Government) which I’m very likely to order soon (using a domestic service since I have no credit card), about a corporation-dominated world. Dyscraxia is the name of my state, and I find the exercise interesting. You simply answer a question about the operation …
From A&L Daily
A couple of good links from Arts & Letters Daily: – on comic books as “intellectual marijuana”. – an eerie piece about Hitler being the “Feelgood” Fuhrer… timely, timely. – the New Criterion website