Archive for July, 2006

Chess testing

So, I’ve been looking for a “solution” to my chess-blogging problem for a while, now. Originally, I was hoping to find a plugin for wordpress that would take a pgn file and generate a game. Instead, I present the following game that I just quickly played (and lost) to SigmaChess Lite. The applet is generated […]

The Only Constitutional Lawyer in Congress

Or at least that’s what I was told about DC’s non-voting representative Eleanor Holmes Norton by someone or other. More importantly, however, this segment (found through http://del.icio.us/popular) from The Colbert Report shines some needed light on the issue of DC’s undemocratic status in our political system. If you want to do something about it, check […]

“Review” of Slaughterhouse Five

What follows is the “review” I recently typed into my Now Reading sidebar widget for Slaughterhouse Five. (NB: If you buy any of the books on my widget through their Amazon links, I supposedly get some sort of Amazon associates credit towards even more books, yay!). Since I didn’t quite like the formatting on my […]

On Footloose

So I caught a chunk of the movie Footloose on TBS the other night, and had a few comments on my reaction to it.
I don’t quite remember how I thought of the movie when I originally saw it (several years ago, I can’t be more precise than that, unforutnately), but I do know how I […]


Loyalty Oath

Though wagging his tail,
Dan barked, "Throw the traitor in jail!"
So to soothe the bulldog,
I insist I won't blog, but


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