From the monthly archives:

September 2005

By the Way…

September 6, 2005

You have donated to a relief organization for Hurricane Katrina, haven’t you?

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Nobody’s Gonna Come Out of This One Looking Good…

September 6, 2005

Not the people of New Orleans:

Trick bikes and firearms: the necessities of life.

Certainly not the cops: [5.6MB, Windows Media video]

Helping themselves to shoes in aisle 3. Click the photo to see the video.

Not the municipal government, who could’ve used these now-useless buses in [...]

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VB or C++ Contractor — Looking for a Gig?

September 6, 2005

My friend “Bones” is looking for a VB or C++ developer to do some work
for a client based in the Toronto area. The basicgist of the application that the client wants developed:
The
client needs a VB or C++ programmer to develop a taskbar
app that accesses DB information over the ‘net and [...]

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Patrick Stewart on "Extras"

September 5, 2005

Ricky Gervais, best know for his BBC television series The Office
(later duplicated by NBC) has a new (and very dry) comedy series called
Extras, in which he plays an actor struggling to land supporting and
background roles. To help, Gervais has lined up a special guest star
for each episode, [...]

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Happy Baek-il, Ryan!

September 4, 2005

Meanwhile, back in Accordion City…
My nephew and sister’s youngest son, Ryan Joseph deVilla-Choi, turned
100 days old on Thursday. Ryan’s dad, my brother-in-law Richard, is
Korean, so we observed the Korean tradition of celebrating Baek-il, the
100 day anniversary of a baby’s birth.

The man of [...]

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"Claw Hammer" Guy Revealed

September 3, 2005

Another angle of the strangest photo to emerge from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina:

“Holy crap! Robert Duvall is Claw Hammer Guy!”

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Which One is the "Nuclear Option"?

September 2, 2005

The photo below has surpassed my earlier candidate for weirdest photo of the Katrina aftermath:

“A Big Dog, an Ugly Woman, Two Shotguns and a Claw Hammer”? Sounds like the title for the next Guy Ritchie movie.

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Totally Unanticipated, Except for When They Expected It

September 2, 2005

[via Rude Pundit and Doc Searls] President Bush, on yesterday’s edition of Good Morning America said:
“I don’t think anyone could have anticipated the breach of the levees.”
That’s a bit of a stretch. He didn’t. I’ll admit that I didn’t, but I live nowhere near New Orleans and haven’t been there since I was 3.

However, these [...]

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“Pop Quiz, Hotshot…”

September 2, 2005

There’s a lot of “tsk tsk” going on with regards to the ill-preparedness of virtually everyone involved in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, from the President and his cabinet for lack of planning, an uncoordinated response and ill-timed guitar photo ops and shoe-shopping trips to the citizenry of New Orleans, many of whom stayed put [...]

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Please let this be a rescue rather than a food run

September 1, 2005

Strangest photo of the Katrina aftermath thus far:

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Beach Boys, meet Kanye West. Kanye, these are the Beach Boys. Now go make some nice music.

September 1, 2005

[via Horklog] West Sounds = Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds + Kanye West’s (The College Dropout + Late Registration).
Download the album before the copyright cops take the site down!

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Henry Rollins’ “William Shatner” Story

September 1, 2005

Left to right: Henry Rollins, Adrian Belew, Ben Folds and William Effing Shatner.I wish I’d been invited to this jam session!
If you haven’t yet picked up William Shatner’s album, Has Been, one of the best albums of last year, do it! It’s a great, offbeat collection of songs and spoken word tracks that more than [...]

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Hurricane Katrina Blog for Relief Day

September 1, 2005

This
blog, along with the others for which I write (The Farm, Blogware, IndieGameDev) is joining with Instapundit,
The Truth Laid
Bear and several others in the Hurricane Katrina Blog for
Relief Day drive. If you’re reading this blog, the chances
are that you’re probably able to spare even the [...]

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