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Wednesday, March 17, 2004

Huge URL

I've known about TinyURL for a while, but this is a nice twist: HugeURL. Here, for example, is a link to the Vance Band site:


http://www.hugeurl.com/?N2U4NzgyMzk2MDk5Mzg5NDAyZTQ5Y2IwNzk5
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Posted 03/17/2004 09:05 by Fritz | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Tuesday, March 16, 2004

weird

Weirdness via Fark.

"When he realized that he was unable to nail his other hand to the board, he called 911," Boucher said.
It was unclear whether the man was seeking assistance for his injury or help in nailing down his other hand.

On a completely unrelated note, I think Suzette and I (and the various older kids who are around this week) are going to see The Passion tomorrow.

Posted 03/16/2004 20:58 by Fritz | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Thursday, March 4, 2004

Blood

I just gave my 24th pint today, through the American Red Cross. Three gallons. So here's my chance to plug some good causes:

Serious recycling.

Posted 03/04/2004 22:28 by Fritz | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Upgrade to MT

I've upgraded MovableType in the hope that I'll be better able to manage the crapflooding (blog comment spam) that has begun. If you see something broken, please let me know.

Posted 03/04/2004 07:03 by Fritz | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Wednesday, March 3, 2004

Euphonia

Every once in a while, I'll stumble across a metaphor or a turn of phrase early in a book, and I'll know that I will read the rest of that book no matter what, just in the hope that I'll be rewarded again. I've just started Margaret Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale:

We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.... A balcony ran around the room, for the spectators, and I thought I could smell, faintly like an afterimage, the pungent scent of sweat, shot through with the sweet taint of chewing gum and perfume from the watching girls, felt-skirted as I knew from pictures, later in minskirts, then pants, then in one earring, spiky green-streaked hair. Dances would have been held there; the music lingered, a palimpsest of unheard sound, style upon style, ...

Wow.

Posted 03/03/2004 12:34 by Fritz | Comments (0) | TrackBack