So I ended up watching the opening ceremonies last night. Which were pretty cool. What struck me as interesting was that they did the whole “The Olympics transcends politics and war!” “It’s a special time!” and then during the ceremony they would take time to mention all the conflicts that were currently ongoing. Georgia, for […]
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So I’m a little late to this, but about one year and one half day ago, the bridge connecting downtown Minneapolis and Northeast Minneapolis via 35W collapsed. It wasn’t supposed to (what bridge is?). And even though the casualties were minor (what casualties are ever truly minor?) it impacted a lot of people. But perhaps […]
Here’s what the internet has given me in the past month or so: 1. Paul Westerberg’s latest for less than a buck on Amazon. 2. One of my favorite X-Files episodes on iTunes (even though Jesse Ventura is involved) 3. Although people seem all happy to do a cover of Daniel Johnston’s “True Love Will […]
Ah, Friday. I am about to start working for the evening, but thought I’d pop in here and say hello. To be fair, I wouldn’t have as much work this afternoon if I hadn’t gone out to lunch with a friend. A lunch that kind of sucked, food-wise. It’s a decent local restaurant that I’ve […]
One of the downsides of getting picked up by The Reg? Around 4 pm I suddenly started getting gabillions of bounced emails. I always knew I needed to change my contact page to remove the address from easily getting snapped up and used for nefarious purposes but I was too lazy to do anything about […]
Well I’ll be. I go in to check my stats this afternoon (in the middle of a website build dealie) and what to my procrastinating eyes should appear? I got linked to from a Register article. As a long time peruser of their site I feel downright honored. A little misty. A little overwhelmed… And […]
Random thing #42 that Ramona will eat: Imitation Crab About a week ago I was up around 6 am (my sleep schedule is bordering on the wacky as of late) and saw a huge bug skitter across my livingroom floor. Huuuuuuuuge. And moving at a high rate of speed. It disappeared before I could throw […]
I’m in the middle of a design/build right now and, as such, not much for words. Or rants, as it were. But some notes from the planet: 1. I am up rather early this morning. The reason? Yesterday I decided to try a different technique with the site I’m building. Never having used it before […]
Ah… not fair. I liked Tim Russert. Who, incidentally, showed up briefly on Homicide years ago as Megan Russert’s cousin. […]
You know, I don’t often condone violence. At least not unless it’s funny. But tonight I was watching Bush’s War on Frontline and I got the overwhelming urge to stomp on the current administration’s foot. Not too hard. Just hard enough for an “Ow! What’d you do that for?” Oh I think you know what […]
I can’t believe this little planet is eight years old today. I actually registered it about a year or so after I graduated from college because I didn’t want to have a work address used for personal correspondence (see the cautionary tale Things Not to Do With Your Work Email), but I also knew my […]
More and more often these days, as it gets dark out, little black shapes… or bugs, or some other unearthly forms have started flitting around my apartment, just out of my field of vision. I know they’re there! But when I turn to catch them they’re suddenly gone! I’m starting to go crazy because I […]
So I am attempting to post by sending an email. We’ll see how far that goes. Anyway. Happy Memorial Day Weekend. I am spending my time split between working and family stuff (out-of-town-family stuff). However I’m not having much luck so far. First, I went out to see what was available for FireWire drives for […]
Aw. Now I’m getting notices from Gmail that I have requested my password be reset. Legitimate, non-phishing ones. One of my planetclaires must be trying to figure out why they can’t login to my email account. Because it’s mine’s, bishes. I think my planet has a birthday coming up. Hang on, lemme check. Just play […]
Well my lack of sleep finally caught up with me, smacked me on the back of the head, swore a few times (rather rudely I thought) and put me on a time out this afternoon. So today instead of working all afternoon I slept. It was a rather rainy day so it was a good […]
The plot. It thickens. Awhile back I made mention of my poor gmail account and how I was getting emails intended for some chick in Vancouver. You recall this? Yes? Anyway, now it appears as though I am actually receiving emails intended for two entirely different Claires. And if I wasn’t feeling guilty before… woo […]
For the past… what? Week? I have been putting in 12 hour days on a website build for a) a musician client of mine and b) my own site. Well several of my own. I redesigned the Frank Lloyd Wright section on this site one morning when I couldn’t get back to sleep. It was […]
Okay, I have a dilemma. Well I have like eight at the moment. But this is the weirdest and least stressful one. So I’m putting this out there. Because I don’t know what to do. Here’s the deal: I woke up this morning and had a new text message on my phone. Didn’t recognize the […]
So maybe a month or so ago I noticed that Ramona’s water was getting really dirty really often. I found myself changing out her water ten times a day. Obviously Ramona was doing something to get her water dirty. Obviously. But what? At first I assumed she was smacking her paw into the water and […]
My lack of creativity and general malaise prevents me from coming up with a decent April Fools Day gag. Not to mention that I gave it a half-hearted attempt last year and the universe got the bigger laugh when I wound up gravely ill and in the hospital for an extended stay, unable to post […]
I would be… remiss. If I did not mention that today is the release date for the B-52s new album, Funplex. How awesome is that? I thought I would throw up a song to celebrate. So here you go—Foo Fighters with Fred Schneider doing that ol’ chestnut, Planet Claire… And while you’re listening, pop on […]