flog

Secured shell tunnel
out into the wilderness
packing up at work

While reviewing my 401(k) prospectus today, I just have a hard time
believing W when he says the economy is doing well. I guess, technically
I lost less money during 2004-Q3 than I did this time last year, but
can not get myself to equate "not quite as shitty" with "doing well".

It's probably because I don't subscribe to the necessary assumption of
politics that words don't mean anything at all and the truth is only what
it is perceived to be.

Searching for a book
(to celebrate Steve's nuptials)
with a clue inside

117.19 064 is supposed to be the call number and
I was pulling books off the shelf frantically looking
for the book as part of some contest. It makes no sense.

Googling on "Beowulf +cunt" (because Hrunting kinda sounds like cunt,
doesn't it?) turns up some real gems, like Druidic Poetry.
Interesting bits, to me:

• him playing around and re-doing Tolkien's Beowulf passage
• His sarcastic crack at composing in the style of GK Chesterton

Supposedly, this sentence was written by a high school graduate:

  ya dogeball is a blast i dont think i saw u, next time u sould 

  intredus your self :) 

At first I thought dogeball may have been some sort of mystical Japanese
thing, which is only marginally interesting. But, I had to flog this
because of "intredus". I just really like the look of the word. It is
much more interesting to look at than "introduce".

It makes sense to see how quickly a language such as Old English could
splinter into at least 6 nearly unintelligible dialects in the space of
a couple hundred years when you consider how creative people will be
either accidentally or intentionally without the restraining force of
"proper grammar" and "education".

Stuffed, Head Filled With Sand
My ears will not even pop
Nasal enema

Well, I heard the new U2 tune today first on DC101 and then on
Baltimore's 98 Rock. It's a pretty good song. It didn't grab me
like "Discotheque" did the first time I heard it, but I think it'll
grow on me.

There's probably nothing to this, but the beat and the vocal effects
remind me of "Lady With the Spinning Head" from Salome.