Archive for the 'Miscellaneous' Category

Hit By A Bus

January 11th, 2008 by jason

Why is it that whenever someone jokingly anticipates something horrible happening to them thus resulting in the loss of the knowledge they carry in their head they say, “In case I get hit by a bus.”
Yes, buses do hit and kill people, but I think cars do much more often. I am nearly hit by [...]

Windows Live Writer

June 4th, 2007 by jason

I’m giving Windows Live Writer Beta a try. Usually I write my posts using the WordPress interface, but it’s always fun to try new products. I’ve heard really good things about Writer so I figured why not?
This post is mostly a test

Phrases I Like

March 23rd, 2007 by jason

I’ll try to do this more often and possibly elaborate on these at another time…
Skeptical Glare — this is how a newspaper described the “hipsters” might be looking at Madonna

206-415 No More!

September 26th, 2005 by jason

I’ve had it with these stupid “me too!!” comments that people are posting on the 206-415-xxxx post. I’ve noted my annoyance before, but now I’m taking action. I have disabled comments for that post. Although it’s fun to get tons of emails with people posting comments, nobody has posted a comment that is worthwhile or [...]

You Will Not Get In This Door

August 22nd, 2005 by jason

I hate to be all gossipy and stuff, but I cannot resist posting this note that is taped to the door on the guy who lives in the apartment next to mine.
It reads:

If I didn’t buzz you in via the front entrance you will not get in this door. I don’t care how loud or [...]

“Out For Blood”

August 12th, 2005 by jason

I probably shouldn’t make fun of people who post comments on my site (but as far as I’m concerned, this stupid 206-415 business is a site of it’s own now — I swear that most of the people posting comments didn’t even read my original post… they seem to not understand that the phone number [...]

Drink Some Philosophy

August 8th, 2005 by jason

Look at this awesome Nalgene bottle that my coworker got me a few weeks ago. It is a special philosophy bottle. You can get your own from Powell’s (a huge bookstore in Oregon).
The philosophers listed are: Aristotle, Plato, Augustine, Descartes, Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, Foucault. We joked that I should etch Zizek on the very top [...]

Damn 206-415

August 4th, 2005 by jason

Is anyone else as annoyed/surprised as me about the fact that my blog has basically been taken over by a discussion (if you could call it that?) of this 206-415-xxxx thing?
The main post about me being annoyed/confused by the phone call currently has over 45 comments! What sucks, though, is that most of these comments [...]

Dell Sucks

July 13th, 2005 by jason

In November 2004 I purchased a new notebook computer. I had always used desktop computers in the past, but figured that it was time to get a nice, portable computer. I didn’t even contemplate where to get the computer — I immediately went to the Dell site and bought a Dell Inspiron 1150 (note the [...]

DW-uhhhh

June 28th, 2005 by jason

I learned last night while watching The West Wing that there are only three words in the English language that being with DW: dwindle, dwarf, and dwell (and, of course, their variations). Inspired by this knowledge, I created the following poem:

The dwindling dwarf dwells
Dwindle, dwelling dwarf
The dwarf dwindled in the dwelling
Dwarves dwell in dwindles
They dwelled [...]