http://blog.monkeymask.net/ en-us mwidner@monkeymask.net 2005-10-25T12:18:26-06:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://blog.monkeymask.net/archives/2005/10/25/12.18.26/ All that's lacking is the formal farewell, it seems. Of course, since I've been too busy to blog, I've been too busy to write that, either. I even have a nice, long, eloquent final post full of appropriate quotes and... 1200@http://blog.monkeymask.net/ 2005-10-25T12:18:26-06:00 http://blog.monkeymask.net/archives/2005/09/29/21.29.51/ My apologies for the recent extended hiatus. I've been a little busy what with the birth of my first child and all. His name is "Miles David" and he and mom are healthy and happy. I hope I'll be able... 1199@http://blog.monkeymask.net/ world events 2005-09-29T21:29:51-06:00 http://blog.monkeymask.net/archives/2005/09/18/17.52.43/ In my reading these last weeks I ran across two similar scenes, one from Milton, the other Wordsworth. Milton's is from "Il Penseroso," a companion poem to "L'Allegro" that details the pleasures and powers of the pensive mind; "L'Allegro" deals... 1198@http://blog.monkeymask.net/ books 2005-09-18T17:52:43-06:00 http://blog.monkeymask.net/archives/2005/09/15/18.16.21/ Check out this cartoon an acquaintance of mine created about Cheney, cussing, and the nature of vulgarity and language. Requires sound.... 1197@http://blog.monkeymask.net/ humor 2005-09-15T18:16:21-06:00 http://blog.monkeymask.net/archives/2005/09/14/17.46.33/ This is just too funny to pass up.... 1196@http://blog.monkeymask.net/ humor 2005-09-14T17:46:33-06:00 http://blog.monkeymask.net/archives/2005/09/07/23.31.57/ I know Urban Dead has already shown up on Metafilter and BoingBoing, but I just gotta say, it looks like a lot of fun. I just started a couple of days ago. It's a turn-based MMORPG that you play with... 1194@http://blog.monkeymask.net/ games 2005-09-07T23:31:57-06:00 http://blog.monkeymask.net/archives/2005/09/06/16.48.16/ At least now we know where Shrub gets his insensitivity, his mom: This is working very well for them. (...)Almost everyone I've talked to says we're going to move to Houston. "What I'm hearing which is sort of scary is... 1193@http://blog.monkeymask.net/ culture 2005-09-06T16:48:16-06:00 http://blog.monkeymask.net/archives/2005/09/04/11.55.05/ Bush sickens me: We've got a lot of rebuilding to do. First, we're going to save lives and stabilize the situation. And then we're going to help these communities rebuild. The good news is -- and it's hard for some... 1192@http://blog.monkeymask.net/ politics 2005-09-04T11:55:05-06:00 http://blog.monkeymask.net/archives/2005/09/03/11.54.16/ The Random Penseur discusses some aspects of Katrina's effects that I have yet to see mentioned elsewhere: Third, who is going to repopulate New Orleans? Those who are the most mobile, the best educated, those with the most portable skills,... 1191@http://blog.monkeymask.net/ economics 2005-09-03T11:54:16-06:00 http://blog.monkeymask.net/archives/2005/09/02/23.55.25/ counting spirals to herself she bends her black legs, works unfinished patience. breathing, meditate, her scaffold catches thrashing lamplight. I read meticulous construction, grow impatient, turn to bed and sad defeat.... 1190@http://blog.monkeymask.net/ writing 2005-09-02T23:55:25-06:00 http://blog.monkeymask.net/archives/2005/09/01/22.35.41/ 1189@http://blog.monkeymask.net/ culture 2005-09-01T22:35:41-06:00 http://blog.monkeymask.net/archives/2005/08/31/12.49.37/ You know, I always felt that even if Iraq's oil supply were a motivation for invading, it was nevertheless a minor and secondary or tertiary one. Now, however: Bush says that we've got to keep fighting in Iraq to keep... 1188@http://blog.monkeymask.net/ politics 2005-08-31T12:49:37-06:00 http://blog.monkeymask.net/archives/2005/08/30/17.42.20/ Yet another entry in the chronicle of American ignorance: American adults in general do not understand what molecules are (other than that they are really small). Fewer than a third can identify DNA as a key to heredity. Only about... 1186@http://blog.monkeymask.net/ science 2005-08-30T17:42:20-06:00 http://blog.monkeymask.net/archives/2005/08/27/00.04.54/ As a bit of an elaboration on snw's recent excursions in Japan and as a post related to sso's love-cantaloupe, read this about vagina cans and sex vending machines. Funny stuff.... 1185@http://blog.monkeymask.net/ humor 2005-08-27T00:04:54-06:00 http://blog.monkeymask.net/archives/2005/08/26/11.33.34/ I had my first note-worthy observation of the semester the other day. I was standing in the rotunda before class, resolidifying in the artificial cool after walking a mere two or three hundred yards from the parking garage to the... 1184@http://blog.monkeymask.net/ humor 2005-08-26T11:33:34-06:00