Poetry in spam

Re: motet wiener; Interdicted F. Hobbyhorse.

Elsewhere, Shirley and Wallace have "Sincere concerns about your privacy." Somehow I doubt their sincerity.

Oh dear, oh dear

An article in the NYTimes quotes Representative J.D. Hayworth of Arizona to the effect that same-sex marriage is equivalent to "taking the rights and protection of marriage and handing them out willy-nilly."

You mean they don't now? I looked it up: the highest hurdle to getting married in Arizona is the fifty bucks for the license. There's no residency requirement, no waiting period, no blood test. Proof of divorce or widowhood isn't required. As near as I can tell, if you're over 18, you can marry anyone you want to as long as the two parties are unmarried, over 18, and not too closely related. And of opposite sexes, of course.

Fortunately for me, Hayworth represents the next district over.

See? I'm not the only one who does this.

Somebody on the QUARKXPR list cited this: Area Man Knows All The Shortcut Keys.

Drives RP nuts when I do this.

Googlism

How is it I never heard of this before?: "nobody is going to take my bear's arm away"

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution gets it...

On gay marriage, Bush unfaithful: "Given that sanctity refers to holiness or sacredness, shouldn't protecting the sanctity of marriage be the job of religious institutions, not government? "

Lord help us all

Our manuals are written, sort of, by a guy in another country who doesn't exactly speak the Queen's English.

Thus we get sentences like this: "[PRODUCT] also supports Copy and Paste features for single fields; to validate this, follow the proceeding procedure."

Multiple Intelligence Test -- Adult Version

Multiple Intelligence Test -- Adult Version

My score:

The Seven Intelligence Areas

Linguistic: 10

Logical-Mathematical: 4

Spatial: 10

Bodily-Kinesthetic: 4

Musical: 10

Interpersonal: 1

Intrapersonal: 7

Wow. I thought I'd score higher on logical-mathematical, but I'm not all that surprised by the extremes here.

Apparently my life calling is to cut the soles off my shoes, sit up in a tree and play the flute.

Quark's new CEO

From the official press release:

"Aulakh has also been instrumental in establishing dependable release schedules and has continued to improve the quality and reliability of Quark products."

That's not saying a lot, but I guess they could go nowhere but up.

Google

Wonder of wonders! A sales guy actually understood that he could find a file without my help.

Literal Interpretation

Can you italicize a Greek letter?

Variations on a meme

In just under two hours my iPod has served up four or five different classical pieces, more than it usually does in any two days.

I won't list the last thirty tracks that have come up (notwithstanding that it's the meme of the moment), but I will mention that the last three tracks have been Lou Harrison's "Estampie for Susan Summerfield," the Cyrkle's "You Can't Go Home Again," and King Crimson's "Level Five." (Hmm, lots of Crimson this morning.)

So far, not so good

Got scared out of my wits this morning by a bum standing in the driveway by the kitchen door, looking in the window. What got me was the resentful, reproachful look on his face, as if it was his driveway I was doing him out of. I felt bad for the guy, but not that bad.

Then I got stopped for speeding on the way to work. The guy got me totally dead to rights, of course--I was going about 70, about what other people were doing--but it was still annoying.

Finished, sort of

One of the things that's been keeping me from making regular entries is our corporate web site.

It's finished now, except for a number of semi-minor tweaks that need to be made. (By others, not by me. That's a good thing. I think.)