You get three guesses as to where the article titled Power of the Pen and subtitled with “The president uses signing statements to decree which laws apply to him” comes from. Here’s the article’s penultimate paragraph:
Americans may have to wait many years to learn what the rule of law meant in 2006. [...]
It was a whirlwind trip — I landed in Belfast International Airport at about 9:00 a.m. local time on Tuesday and departed on Thursday at 11:40 a.m., but I do make it a point not to miss big family events like weddings or opportunities for travel to countries I’ve never been to.
Here are the first [...]
Eleven months of marriage already? Happy month-a-versary, Wendy!
I’ll probably somewhere over the Atlantic when you first read this. I’ll be back in time for month-a-versary dinner!
In the meantime, here’s a scene that may or may not have occurred when we were dating…
(This has been posted automatically in my absence. Ain’t technology grand?)
The Airport Rocket
At the risk of flooding High Park with stewardess fetishists, I have observed a number of flight attendants and other people in airline uniforms emerging from High Park subway station. That’s what piqued my curiosity about the “Airport Rocket” bus.
My natural tendency is to take the car to the airport and park at [...]
(This has been posted automatically in my absence. Ain’t technology grand?)
In the blog entry titled Oddball Cover of a French Book on China and Africa, I quote a description of a French book:
L’une étonne le monde; l’autre le désole. La Chine, le dragon rugissant du 21ème siècle, et l’Afrique, l’autruche impuissante à affronter ses défis.
Babelfish (which often gives wonky translations) and I have [...]
On Monday, I’ll fly to one of my ancestral homelands — Ireland (I came by my accordion and partying powers honestly) — to attend my cousin Kara’s wedding. I’ve been keeping an eye on the rapidly-changing restrictions on what you can bring onto planes departing from Canada, the UK and the US (since I’ll be [...]
Cyrus Farivar pointed me to this recently-published French book titled Chine-Afrique: Le Dragon et l’Autruche, which translates as “China-Africa: The Dragon and the Ostrich). The cover, shown below, is pretty ridiculous and dated, not just for what’s depicted, but also the rinky-dink style in which it’s depicted. I’m reminded of the crappy artwork from grade [...]
[via Seth Godin's blog] The Ronald McHummer Sign-O-Matic site is more than just a sign generator in the same vein as the Colbert Report “On Notice Board” Generator, the Church Sign Generator or the Tombstone Generator. There’s also a cause behind it:
This month McDonald’s is giving away toy Hummers — 42 million of them, in [...]
Here’s a t-shirt design that your non-computer-science pals won’t understand, but at the same time is weird enough and obscure enough for hipster cred:
Want one? It’s available here.
(No idea who Donald Knuth is? Check here, here, here and here. That’s how he rolls, yo.)
Back in high school, after reading Space-Time and Beyond for the umpteenth time and drinking one too many zombies with my friend Henry, we came up with a theory:
In the infinite set of universes, there had to exist a particular universe in which the events in our lives were being watched as a TV show.
We then made a solemn vow to live the kind of life that got high ratings.
This is the continuation of that story.
