Yasser Arafat. He’s always got that same black-and-white spiderish-print head covering thing on. Does that pattern signify something? Anyone in the know on this?

Why, why, why did I waste all day playing Nethack? I have so much I need to do. Which, I guess, is why I did it.

My first front-of-the-box blurb (at least that I know of): The Kingston High at Amazon

My current list of grievances: – Washington Mutual, which has apparently sold my name, phone number, and details on my mortgage to every person on earth. Stop calling me! – Earthlink and SBC, who combined have hacked together a poor DSL connection for me. – AT&T (now Comcast), whose cable service is filled with static…

Why can’t I get assignments like this Vanity Fair story? [See Michael Jackson blurb, top of page.]

Now searching over 3 billion medical records.

Funniest thing I’ve seen in forever: The cop dude on Six Feet Under fishing a dead possum out of a swimming pool.

Let’s barber, yo. Link courtesy Neil.

Now at 580! Holy moley. And on bn.com … 280,000! Odd.

Amazon rank is now 780. Amazing how addictive this is…

Thank you, Slashdot: Amazon.com Sales Rank: 910

Cool morning: – Half Mast reviewed on Slashdot – Invited to be part of a panel at the Sonoma Valley Film Festival (April 13)

I like these new typing gloves, but they smell of bacon.

Baby pics by popular demand.

I can’t decide if this is amusing or not, but the #4 link when searching for the word “murder” on Overture is Amazon.com. In other news, I dreamed last night that my little brother built a nuclear bomb and tried to get a crazy woman to detonate it. I turned him in and he got…

At what point do we just give up and put the money in our mattresses?

How awful does this sound? (From LexisNexis PR update newsletter.) Movieline Movieline magazine will change its name to Movieline’s Hollywood Life in May. The magazine will focus on lifestyles in Hollywood, which is evident in its current issue about the luxuries of stars. The title change is an attempt to increase circulation. For more information,…

More tales from the darkside.

Rilly nifty dialect survey. Link courtesy Kayte.

This guy’s water trick helped me unclog a long-suffering toilet. Recommended.