november 2004
Don’t try this at home
It seemed like such a good idea at the time. A Cosmopolitan-style “Martini” made with sloe gin (so good when mixed in a Sloe Gin Fizz) instead of vodka.
It smelled delicious, and looked pretty too.
Unfortunately, it tasted like cough syrup blended with Kool-Aid.
So now you know.
24 november 2004 ~ 10:28 
Fairy lights
It’s not even Thanksgiving yet (that’s this coming Thursday, for my non-American readers), but I couldn’t wait to bring some festive cheer to my workplace, so yesterday I strung lights all around the main desk in the computer lab.
I’ve been decorating at home too. I feel a bit like Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen from BBC’s Changing Rooms.
On the plus side, I don’t look like him.
23 november 2004 ~ 16:16
Physician, heal thyself
During my lunch break at work today, in the food court, I walked past a table where a woman was heartily tucking into a large burger. Also on her tray were a carton of fries, a large soda, and a huge bag of potato chips. On the table, next to the tray, sat a textbook.
Its title was Food, Nutrition, and Diet Therapy.
22 november 2004 ~ 19:10
The name game
I’ve run across two fairly amusing names of local people on tech mailing lists lately: Andrew McHorney and Joshua Penix.
Penix?!
Honestly, if you had a name like Andrew McHorney, wouldn’t you change it? To Dick McHorney, or something. I know I would.
Still, neither of these is as bad as the name of a guy I went to high school with: Willy Rash. (I’m not making that up. His name was William, but he chose to be called Willy.)
Come to think of it, that would the perfect name for a friend of mine...
19 november 2004 ~ 13:40
Changes afoot
If you can see this, then that means that this site has been fully transferred to my new web host, Neureal.
Normal service will resume soon, once I’ve ironed out any bugs in the new setup.
16 november 2004 ~ 13:46
Enormous Minge ... i
I went by the Mingei International Museum in Balboa Park the other day, but it was already closed by the time I got there. Anyway, at least I got a photo of the sign out front, although it was so wide that I couldn’t fit all the letters in. Oh well.
12 november 2004 ~ 19:45
Art of glass
The 23rd annual Juried Art Glass Show of the Art Glass Association of Southern California will run until November 14, 2004 at Studio 21 in the Spanish Village Art Center at San Diego’s Balboa Park. It’s a small show, but well worth a visit if you happen to be in the area.
9 november 2004 ~ 21:28
Electile dysfunction
Four facts:
- I have been paying taxes to the federal government of the United States of America, and to the state governments of Georgia or California, for ten years.
- Because I do not have residency in the US, even though I have lived and paid taxes here for ten years - oddly enough, as a “resident for tax purposes” for some of that time - I am not permitted to vote in tomorrow’s presidential election, or in any official election in this country.
- “No taxation without representation” was “a rallying cry for advocates of American independence from Great Britain in the eighteenth century.”
- I am British.
Oh, the irony.
1 november 2004 ~ 14:09