Monthly Archives: October 2003

There seems to be a strange amount of debate in Washington this week about the meaning of the word “slog”, prompted by Donald Rumsfeld’s use of the word in a Pentagon memo. Apparently, many people aren’t sure of the word’s … Continue reading →

I was watching Survivor tonight and flipping through the channels during commercial breaks when I stumbled across I Love the 80s Strikes Back: 1985 on VH1. Like most shows on VH1 lately, I Love the 80s Strikes Back is composed … Continue reading →

Last night, the city council of Sterling Heights, Michigan fired their city manager because he lied on his résumé. (He claimed to have five degrees, but only the two from a dubious online university were “real.”) The confusing part of … Continue reading →

You want to know what’s wrong with the Detroit Downriver area? It’s stuck half-way between country and city — geographically and socially. Sandwiched between farmer-friendly Monroe and not-as-blighted-as-you-think-it-is Detroit, the communities that call themselves “Downriver” have halted the development from … Continue reading →

So I drive my mother to her favorite store where she has to pick up a prescription. The pharmacy has a demo model of the Homedics SBM-200 Therapist Select Shiatsu Back Massager set up, nobody’s using it, and my back’s … Continue reading →

Since her last stroke, I’ve been doing most of my mother’s driving for her, which means I play chaffeur for her weekly grocery trips. Grocery shopping with my mother is not a pleasant experience — she picks a fight every … Continue reading →

My jalopy of a PC started buzzing today. More accurately, the fan started buzzing. I decided it might be dust jammed in a bad spot, so I unbolted the power module and spent a half hour blasting the thing with … Continue reading →

I used to play a lot of Dungeons & Dragons back in high school. A lot. I haven’t played much since college, but I’m still on the game publisher’s mailing lists, so they sent me a box of promotional junk … Continue reading →

I’ve been using Greymatter for a little under three days, and I’m already patching the code (because, as I said before, most weblogs are bad websites). This is the entry where I cross my fingers and hope nothing explodes.n