gabapentin purchase online uk I’ve spent a lot of time this summer criss-crossing the Catskills in my truck, going to landscaping jobs. My only companions are my thoughts and my FM radio. I can’t tell you how much I enjoy the radio in the Eastern Catskills. There’s Woodstock Radio, where I can hear “Maggie’s Farm” or Matthew Sweet or […]
Category Archives: Dumb Stuff
So Far Behind the Times, it’s Ahead.
19-Aug-10FIFA.
14-Jun-10My favorite thing about World Cup season is having to listen to people who decry the homogenization of the world, destruction of diversity, and conformity of consumerist culture complain that it’s embarrassing to them that the United States doesn’t like a sport that everyone else likes.
Beardism.
15-Apr-10A study on how beards affect the credibility of those who wear them, in marketing terms. Apparently, it’s a positive for anything not sexy. Seems about right. I think having a beard has changed the way I think about myself too. I’d planned to shave it off with the end of winter, but we’re well […]
The latest car trouble.
11-Feb-10Literally – no brakes! I knew they were getting unresponsive when I drove up here a few days ago, so I tested them before going down the big hill toward the post office. No brakes! Obviously, I didn’t hazard the hill, or I would probably be dead now. Yet another visit from the tow truck, […]
Dante Goes to Hell.
09-Feb-10So now there’s a video game “based on” Dante’s Inferno. Of course there’s been some toying with the plot: But for Dante’s Inferno (out today for the Microsoft Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, $60, rated Mature for ages 17-up) to work as a game, the designers needed an amped-up protagonist. “The historical Dante is not […]
You can understand the reasoning behind some of these customs of the Sacae (according to Aelian): “The horses of the Sacae, when they lose their master, wait for him to jump on again. If someone wishes to marry a girl, he fights her in single combat. And if she proves the stronger she leads him […]
From the Stupid Ancients department. The technique of Leonides, here, might inspire a gifted statesman to find a way to save New Orleans. “The inhabitants of Byzantium, who are formidable tipplers, are reported to live in bars, moving out of their own houses and dwellings, which they let to foreigners visiting the city. They abandon […]
Our Dumb Predecessors.
03-Nov-09Whenever I think the world is coming to an end from stupidity, I just read old books. The one that has been inspiring me recently is (to be honest) Thoreau’s reading of old books. But Thoreau is approaching old-book status himself anyway: “I learn from Topsell’s Gesner, whose authority appears to be Albertus, that the […]
Bat Boy was stopped by Department of Environmental Conservation officers on Route 42 in the Catskills with the carcass of a baby sasquatch tied onto his roof – but then was waved by when officers saw his hunting partner: former Vice President Dick Cheney! Their 2009 Chevy Tahoe was later seen entering Area 52, a […]
Technical Troubles.
07-Sep-10aggressively Lots of technical trouble here, which has slowed down the website a bit. My computer does not really work, and my camera does not work at all. Both need to be replaced this month. I have enough money to do it (barely), so that will happen. And while I’m on this topic, let me complain […]