Archive for July, 2003

The Big Lebowski, vol. 2

Thursday, July 24th, 2003

Apparently, my friends and I are not the only ones who are fanatical about the Coen brothers’ magnnum opus The Big Lebowski. According to an article from yesterday’s Wall Street Journal (prime coporate bathroom reading, that), this is the year of the second annual LebowskiFest, a three day celebration of bowling, Caucasians (the drink, not [...]

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Stupid Weblog Tricks, vol. 2

Tuesday, July 15th, 2003

I followed some links from my round-trip translated Babelfishery and ended up at a severely changed Amazon.com, advertising such CDs for sale as Coldplay’s “Jolts of Spirit to the Head” or “The Thing better than Cher.”
Rod Stewart’s “It Had to be You…the Great American Songbook” becomes “It has had to be you… The Songbook Large [...]

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The Big Lebowski

Saturday, July 12th, 2003

I haven’t seen this movie in months, but it’s my own personal bible of bowling, Nihilism, ‘Nam, and Raymond Chandler-esque double crosses.
The Coen Brothers rock my world. If you haven’t seen it yet, you owe yourself.
…and you haven’t seen it until you’ve seen the “edited for television” version. You haven’t lived until you’ve heard Walter [...]

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Stupid Weblog Tricks, Vol. 1

Friday, July 11th, 2003

1. Translate your weblog into any language via Babelfish
2. Download the translated webpage, and upload it to your server.
3. Point Babelfish toward the translated file on your server, then translate it back into English.
Your results should look something like this.
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Yee-ha!

Thursday, July 10th, 2003

I’m more and more amazed at the things I can do with little effort in MT. Thanks to the inspiration of this tutorial at wholelottanothing, you’ll now see a column on the right hand side that says “Now Playing.” It’s what I’m listening to right now in Winamp.
Now if I can only figure out how [...]

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The playlist in my head

Thursday, July 10th, 2003

Until I get a Do Something/Trackback ping solution up and running on this weblog this will have to do.
The Choir - Salamander (from whence the title of this page comes)
Geto Boys - Damn, It Feels Good to be a Gangsta
Kris Delmhorst - Gravity
Seal - Wild
Turin Brakes - Pain Killer (Summer Rain)
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If money is the root of all evil…

Thursday, July 10th, 2003

…and I have exactly $6.66 in my pocket right now, what does that say about me?
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