http://blog.glyphography.com Insert your own witty comment here. I promise nothing. Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:46:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Question of the week: if one of your crackpot ideas suddenly takes off and you become an eccentric billionaire (and thus, unavoidably, eccentric billionaire adventurer), what obscure world record will you become obsessed with setting? Because honestly, until I come up with a good one, I just can't see the point ... http://blog.glyphography.com/2007/12/06/zillions/ ... when you forget to look outside for a couple of days. How time flies.  I count 14, so there is still considerably more to come.  And if you're wondering about the inverted-T distortion, that's the wire cage keeping out the varmints and neighborhood kids.  Early tomorrow morning I'll remove the ... http://blog.glyphography.com/2007/11/20/so-this-is-what-happens/ or, "The Times, It Are A-Changin'" Recently The New York Times flung open the vaults to its online article archive, permitting free access to non-advertising content as far back as 1851, complete with full-text search. Is that a valuable research tool, or an unparalleled means to waste time? Guess that depends on ... http://blog.glyphography.com/2007/10/09/then-is-the-new-now/ Since I'm on NewsVac duty this weekend (and no, that's not a euphemism; that's actually what it's called), I am going to be near a computer for a lot of time anyway, so I thought it a good opportunity to polish up some photos and make better use of Flickr. Take ... http://blog.glyphography.com/2007/09/22/nuestro-pueblo/ ... or, Naught In My Back Yard. A few minutes ago: http://blog.glyphography.com/2007/04/07/wasteland/ The scene outside my front door last Saturday: http://blog.glyphography.com/2007/03/06/dust-bowl-ballads/ Attention-grabbing headline, eh? I was going to title this There's Lots of Room for You on the Bandwagon, but I couldn't pass up the shock value. Anywho, the fun-loving cobblers at Last.fm have finally released an audioscrobbler player that works on my operating system, so I decided to try it out. In ... http://blog.glyphography.com/2006/09/20/last-post/ We're all back in the republic now, if there was any doubt. To show for it I've got nearly eight gigabytes of photographs (raw). That's going to take some time to sort through. I know, I know - everyone visits Prague Castle or some old river and thinks ... http://blog.glyphography.com/2006/08/23/20-days-17000-miles-1243-photos/ aka two things they don't have in Vienna. I don't know who's responsible for the sausage misunderstanding; presumably Hormel or Kraft or someone of their ilk. But the Vienese are pretty up-front about the Kangaroo thing. I can't imagine how it became a big deal, but it ... http://blog.glyphography.com/2006/08/03/kangaroo-sausage/ In abour an hour, we'll be leaving for Europe.  If you have no idea what I'm talking about, who "we" are, where in Europe we're going, where Europe itself is, or even where we're leaving from, stay tuned.  Today will likely be a long string of airport layovers, and if ... http://blog.glyphography.com/2006/08/01/up-up-and-i-used-that-one-already/ Last week I did something I hadn't done in about a decade -- listen to a new Ned's Atomic Dustbin single. See, the band split up in the mid-90s, due to record label trouble. And for a long time, there was nothing. Several band members started other projects, some just ... http://blog.glyphography.com/2006/06/24/better-ned-than-red/ Over the weekend, I attended/participated the wedding of my friends Don Bell and Melissa Martinez down in sooouth Texas. As we speak, they are still in the air on their way to their honeymoon destination New Zealand, where they will make wisecracks about the Lord O The Rings movies, ... http://blog.glyphography.com/2006/06/13/for-taller-or-for-shorter-or-tengo-sombrero-grande/ Even as I write this, cellular traffic is slowing to a crawl all across the country as otherwise normal people throw time and SMS fees into voting for this season's American Idol winner. There are quite a few American Idols these days, enough that a few weeks ago someone posed the ... http://blog.glyphography.com/2006/05/24/us-presidents-and-american-idols/ Tuesday brought us the DVD release of season one of Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, the greatest television show of all time. Historians were quick to note that at numerous points in the past, I have described Arrested Development as the funniest television show of all time. Both statements are true. Arrested ... http://blog.glyphography.com/2006/05/13/not-that-funny/ The problems of the world, solved. One by one, by me. This time it's the earth-battering question of what to do about Barry Bonds and/or other professional athletes and their hankering for those sweet, sweet performance-enhancing drugs. The sides are fairly clearly demarked -- high school principals and agitated parents ... http://blog.glyphography.com/2006/04/30/legalizing-steroids-for-athletes-but-only-the-pros/ Well it had to happen. For reasons I have no intention of getting into, I've moved this blog from its cushy home buried deep within Blogger.com to the wild wooly wilderness* of my own domain. That being this domain. Glyphography.com is a made up domain that I've owned for a couple ... http://blog.glyphography.com/2006/03/30/good-news-everyone/ Well, I now officially have a contract with OSTG, so I am a paid, card-carrying member of the biased liberal media. This means that I can now start defaming and libelling hard-working patriotic George Bush loving conservatives forty hours a week, instead of just on a hobbyist basis. I'm very ... http://blog.glyphography.com/2005/10/05/have-gun-will-commute/ I'm writing this to go on the record with my campaign for postliteracy. I keep having to explain it again and again to people; perhaps they need it written down -- I for one can process the spoken word and remember it, but that's me. Here it is in a nutshell: ... http://blog.glyphography.com/2005/08/05/riu-down-with-books/ Here we are in 2005 -- unquestionably the Future -- with Google Maps and GPS and magnetic north and other such flash-in-the-pan fad technologies, yet nobody seems to know where the United States really are. Sure sure, you may think you know, but there's one simple way to find out. Find ... http://blog.glyphography.com/2005/07/26/geography-schmeography/ So I've decided if and when I eventually don a mask and head out into the streets to fight crime at night, I'm going to call myself "Captain Defeat" or something like that. If we've learned anything over the years it's that a superhero's name and mascot are far more ... http://blog.glyphography.com/2005/07/15/up-up-and-away/