The Place of Dead Roads

Twittering

2009-05-05T12:03:00.003-04:00

I'm playing around with Twitter now. Find me as Ah_Pook_Is_Here

The Stupid, It Hurts!

2008-08-12T23:59:00.000-04:00

Typical day at my office

2008-06-04T00:55:00.000-04:00

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Clinton makes the press file from the men's bathroom. Serves them food there. And yes, including the female reporters.

2008-03-04T12:22:00.001-05:00

From , Huffington Post (and all over):

Phil Glass does Sesame Street

2007-12-06T23:47:00.000-05:00

from 1977

via boingboing

In 1981, Andy Warhol ate a hamburger

2007-11-26T22:07:00.000-05:00

eh?

"Oh' Halloween"

2007-10-16T15:57:00.000-04:00

A poem by my son Andy

Oh' Halloween
How scary it is
With witches flying across the moon.
Oh' Halloween how it makes me scream!
Black cats in the night
Skeletons and ghosts flying about.
Vampires sucking blood
Evil laughs on Halloween
Oh how Halloween makes me scream!

Why the two Matrix sequels were not as good as the orginal

2007-08-27T21:51:00.000-04:00

From Rolling Stone, The Mystery of Larry Wachowski:

One night in January 2001, Larry Wachowski, co-director of the blockbuster Matrix movies, walked into a dark club in West Hollywood, where the rules of identity easily blurred, just like in his films. The Dungeon served the devoted BDSM -- bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism -- community in Los Angeles. It was a place where power dynamics between two different types of people were regularly played out: eager submissives, or slaves, and the dominatrixes who, for an hour or for a night, took complete charge of their minds and bodies, using ropes, whips, chains, knives and needles. Wachowski fell into the former category.

One of the people Wachowski met that night was among L.A.'s highest-profile dominatrixes, a tall, imposing blonde with a traffic-stopping figure who used the nom de kink Ilsa Strix.

In the weeks following their first encounter, Larry Wachowski returned to the Dungeon to see Mistress Strix. Boundaries fell swiftly, stunning the Los Angeles bondage community, which prides itself on the fact that mistresses keep their submissives at arm's length. The relationship between Larry and Ilsa, both in their thirties, would eventually destroy two marriages and possibly alter the creative course of one of the most influential movie trilogies of the past quarter-century, co-created with his brother, Andy: the original Matrix, released in 1999, and its two inferior sequels, which both hit theaters, six months apart, in 2003...

Rare Exports

2007-07-08T22:25:00.000-04:00

or the truth behind Father Christmas.

(Part One)

(Part Two)

The special times we live in

2007-06-28T10:48:00.000-04:00

The Return of a Static Universe and the End of Cosmology:

We live in a very special time in the evolution of the universe: the time at which we can observationally verify that we live in a very special time in the evolution of the universe!

George Bush Got No Respect for Black People

2007-06-20T16:08:00.000-04:00

Via Wonkette

THE PRESIDENT: Kermit Ruffins and the Barbeque Swingers, right out of New Orleans, Louisiana. (Applause.)

MR. RUFFINS: Thank you. Thanks for having us. We’re glad to be here.

THE PRESIDENT: Proud you’re here. Thanks for coming. You all enjoy yourself. Make sure you pick up all the trash after it’s over.

Why Quantum Mechanics class is a good place to meet your future wife

2007-06-15T11:29:00.000-04:00

The 10 Real Reasons Why Geeks Make Better Lovers:

Geeks build it so you will come
Geeks get personal with tech
Geeks dig consensual role playing
Geeks interact
Geeks get things done
Geeks are hot…and wear the coolest glasses.
Geeks don't shock easily
Geeks know kinky people
Geeks understand multi-dimensional relationships
Geeks aren't threatened by new tech or "the future of sex"

(My wife points out it is a better place to meet a husband, as the select is large and the competition is limited.)

Hello Kitty Darth Vader

2007-06-14T15:28:00.000-04:00

via boingboing (hat tip to Paul)

Kakistocracy

2007-06-14T15:25:00.000-04:00

Kakistocracy (rule by the worst citizens) is a form of government in which the people least qualified to control the government are the people who control the government.

http://www.answers.com/topic/kakistocracy

What my wife said

2007-06-04T15:13:00.000-04:00

On the occasion of our 12th wedding anniversary

When two souls love each other,
they don't look at each other.
They look in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You sass that hoopy Douglas Adams? Now there's a frood who knew where his towel was.

2007-05-24T11:58:00.000-04:00

Just a short reminder, tomorrow is Towel Day

Gesundheit!

2007-05-15T21:59:00.000-04:00

Decorating our bar with Møzaikit vinyl tiles

2007-05-10T16:41:00.000-04:00

Found a new fun decorating product:
Five color sets of self adhesive vinyl tiles.
225 per box.
Møzaikit made by Shalgo

Me being me, I had to make a time lapse of applying the tiles to the bar.

Of course, any new modifications to a bar must be celebrated with a new cocktail:

1 part Yellow Chartreuse
2 parts Plymouth Gin
Twist of Lemon
Shake well with ice and serve.

Naturally, I wouldn't try anything like decorating our bar without a plan:

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2007-05-02T13:22:00.000-04:00

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Cherry Blossoms 2007

2007-04-27T01:15:00.000-04:00

Finally got some of my photos organized.

The Picard Song

2007-04-25T11:07:00.000-04:00

Darth Vader Balloon

2007-04-24T23:23:00.000-04:00

Darth Vader Balloon

VT Attack: And so the madness begins...

2007-04-18T21:42:00.000-04:00

From the AP, Student Arrested Over Va. Tech Remarks:

A University of Colorado student pleaded not guilty Wednesday to making comments that classmates deemed sympathetic toward the gunman blamed for killing 32 students and himself at Virginia Tech, authorities said.

During a class discussion Tuesday of Monday's massacre at Virginia Tech, Max Karson "made comments about understanding how someone could kill 32 people," university police Cmdr. Brad Wiesley said.

Several witnesses told investigators Karson, who turns 22 on Thursday, said he was "angry about all kinds of things from the fluorescent light bulbs to the unpainted walls, and it made him angry enough to kill people," according to a police report. Witnesses "said they were afraid of him and afraid to come to class with him," Wiesley said.

Karson, of Denver, was arrested Tuesday on a misdemeanor charge of interfering with staff, faculty or students of an education institution.

His father, Michael Karson, told the Camera newspaper that the comments may have been misinterpreted and questioned whether his son's free speech rights had been violated.

"I would have hoped that state officials would know their First Amendment better than they seem to," he said.

Turkey threatens to attack N. Iraq at the end of April. And Iran to get involved as well.

2007-04-18T13:20:00.000-04:00

David Ignatius writes, in the Washington Post, A New Threat In Iraq:

[T]he Turks might invade by the end of April unless the United States contained the PKK...If the Turks do attack, counters one Kurdish official, "their own border will not be respected. They will not be the only ones to choose the battlefield."...Like the Turks, the Iranians have a restless Kurdish minority and would be tempted to intervene militarily against a militant group called PJAK that operates from Iraqi Kurdistan.

At least 130 Faculty, Students and Staff Killed in Bombings at Universities in Iraq so far this year

2007-04-18T13:18:00.000-04:00

From IraqSlogger:

In January, Baghdad’s Mustansiriya University sufferred a double suicide bombing in January that killed at least 70 people, including students, faculty, and staff. A month later, another suicide bomber struck at Mustansiriya, killing 40.

On Monday, the same day as the Virginia Tech mass shooting, two separate shooting incidents struck Mosul University, one killing Dr. Talal Younis al-Jelili, the dean of the college of Political Science as he walked through the university gate, and another killing Dr. Jaafar Hassan Sadeq, a professor from the Faculty of Arts at the school, who was targeted in front of his home in the al-Kifaat area, according to Aswat al-Iraq.