jamie lawrence-howard • highly absorbent redundant and superfluous verbiage • clogging tubes since 9.1.98
i love watching the winter olympics, and especially the ice skating. and especially especially the ice dancing.
but since the scoring scandals in the last winter olympics, the sport has instituted a new scoring system.
and i don’t like it.
Continue reading “enough with the twizzles”
things i found funny at gawker today: this craigslist posting, their obsession with johnny weir, and frank bruni blogs about hooters. gawker is a great site, if a bit new-york-insidey.
i completely agree with their assessment of johnny weir, though. if i were gorgeous, famous, rich, single, and twenty years younger, i might just give him a call.
my main occupation today–looking forward to the long weekend. you have a good one now. and be careful out there.
much has been made of the fact that there are no viruses for the mac, in contrast with windows which has approximately 108*2 to the power of 5 viruses.
but all over the mac internets today is the story of the first mac “virus”.
relax. the virus score is still windows three million, mac 0. or, depending on your definition of what constitutes a virus, windows three million, mac 1.
but it’s an eye opening experience, reading about this. and i’ve learned a lot.
Continue reading “needless viral hysteria”
i got the invitation in the mail the other day.
would i like to join aarp? lots of benefits. it’s not expensive. you really should.
they must be kidding. i’m only 42.
Continue reading “not ready for aarp”
kirk is. i’m not going gluten-free, except that i kind of am, just by virtue of inhabiting space with him.
turns out that, ironically enough for someone who bakes constantly, he is allergic, or whatever, to gluten. the stuff that’s in wheat and oats and i don’t know what all else that holds it all together.
he hasn’t had any gluten for two weeks, and feels much better for it.
Continue reading “going gluten-free”
from an article on saddam hussein’s forced attendance at his trial:
“degradation and shame upon you, raouf,” saddam yelled. later, he called the investigating judges “homosexuals.”
saddam, you wacky gay-basher/closeted homosexual you.
from an article on show dogs braving the new york blizzard conditions:
…the 1969 blizzard created even more havoc. that was the year the esteemed walter goodman was seen carrying his prize skye terrier from [madison square] garden while his mother trudged behind.
when someone chided goodman about paying more attention to his dog than his mom, he supposedly said: “i’m not showing my mother.”
proving once again that you should never piss off a queen holding a small dog.
kirk and i saw the new musical version of the famous documentary “grey gardens” at playwrights horizons last night.
the perfect way to spend the evening after the end of the biggest snowstorm in new york history.
and i can’t get it out of my mind. i think the show is fantastic.
Continue reading “grey gardens”
i recently added the “cast of characters” to the sidebar of the site–it’s basically a bunch of my cell phone pictures linked to various pages and blogs on my site.
i put up a picture of my cat pd–she’s the lovely black and white cat.
but with no story about pd to link it to, i linked the picture to a story about another cat.
my dead cat jeff. i know. tacky. so kirk has been after me to write a story about pd, so that her picture will not be linked to a weepy story about my dead cat.
here it is.
Continue reading “my cat pd”
the title pretty much says it all.
now i’m not a prude, although i admit to being pretty wasp-y. and i know it’s a natural function, and shit happens, and whatnot.
but really. what’s going on here?
Continue reading “the guy with the hard-on at the gym”
i think i may have donated $50 or $20 or something to move on, back in those heady days of presidential election 2004 when all seemed not only possible, but likely.
i’m not sure.
i’m pretty sure now that if i did, i’m really sorry that i did.
Continue reading “move on, move on”
bush urges end to cartoon violence.
the road runner, yosemite sam, superman, and the like had better watch out. george w. means business!
thanks to kirk for the link.
microsoft is going to charge people $49.95 a year to keep their computers free of viruses, spyware, keyboard loggers, and all of the other crap that infects pcs which run the windows operating system.
amazing. release an operating system so riddled with errors and bad coding that semi-literate pre-teens the world over can hack it, and then charge people a yearly fee to fix what they should have gotten right in the first place.
and, sadly enough, i’m sure it will be an enormous revenue stream for them.
people. please. apple.
apparently, thanks to intrepid scientists with nothing constructive to otherwise occupy their time, mankind has discovered an area of new guinea that is being described as a “garden of eden”.
by the way, i know that the period should go inside the quotes–“garden of eden.” i think that’s silly, and it’s my site. but i digress.
here’s the link to the story–it’s on the bbc news site.
great. another pristine area we can screw up.
Continue reading “leave it alone”
so i decided to change the look of the site a bit, as you can see.
it’s all very web 2.0-ish, i admit. but those are some design principles i can agree with.
i’m proud that my site has always been clean, direct, and fast-loading. now it’s even more so.
with bigger fonts too.
Continue reading “site revision”
you can’t ever predict what people will do once they get a seat on the supreme court, as i’ve mentioned before.
and now, in his first act as a supreme court judge, samuel alito has pissed off the conservatives.
Continue reading “supreme surprise”
sounds mundane?
it’s anything but. actually, dropping off the taxes is one of my favorite things i do in new york all year.
confused? I’ll explain.
Continue reading “dropping off the taxes”
smartcar at 47th and madison
haven’t seen one of these on the streets of new york until today, although they are all over the streets in europe. if i had to buy a car, which i hope to never have to do again, this would be the car i would want.
so very, very, well…smart.
i may just make my first itunes video purchase, even though i don’t have a video ipod. wonder showzen. you can still play those downloaded episodes on tv, you know. just burn them to a dvd. they are lower quality, but i’ve read that they look approximately like a vhs recording, so that’s not bad.
Continue reading “wonder showzen in itunes”
this site transforms a browser window into a mockup of the mac os x experience. i pulled it up on my pc at work, and it actually gave me a moment of panic before i remembered it was just a browser window and i could alt-tab away from it. that’s how realistic it is.
it certainly isn’t perfect, but it’s a great place to get an small taste of the os x experience, which in my opinion is far superior to windows. ever wonder why i rattle on so much about how great macs are? try this link and get a small sample.
if apple was smart, they’d flesh this out and feature it on their site.
thanks to stuart at 36 degrees design, who actually did all the work and allowed me and everyone else to use it, i now have an updated widget.
and apple has updated their page with the new version, as has dashboardwidgets.com. maybe if i have some time today, i’ll go off and find new corners of the web to seed with my widget.
you can also download my widget here, if you like.
Continue reading “updated widget”