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Monthly Archives: February 2004

By the way

Mickey Kaus’s writings on Slate are what convinced me to use so many exclamation points.
Mickey makes writing for the web fun!

Yay

Anna’s coming by for dinner!
A bit late, but, you know, like, whatever.
Don’t tell you-know-who!
And, no, this isn’t what it seems.

I hate waiting

First, I noticed yesterday that a package of compact discs that I’d ordered from Amazon weeks ago reached Washington early in the morning.
I chose super-saver shipping, which means that Amazon sits on your order for a few weeks. Why? Product differentiation. If they shipped everything when it was ready, who would bother to pay for [...]

eccccch

I just drank 64 oz. of grapefruit juice.
I hate grapefruit juice.
Even grapefruit juice with “Great NEW Taste.”
Especially grapefruit juice with “Great NEW Taste.”
I blame Prof. Hoyt Alverson, unless this works.

Why We’ve Not Updated Our Weblog Lately

We’ve been busy.
Don’t worry, we still love you.
These are the same things we say every day to the elliptical machine, also.
Plus, and keep it to yourself, we have a whole bunch of new toys with which to play. We will return when they cease to amuse us. Next week, say.
And it is not true [...]