St. Valentine’s Day Eve. Strikes fear into the heart of many guys: Oh Crap! Is it that time of year already?
Me? No worries this year. Nobody to make plans with, and no real urge to make any plans. I could go out and hang out with the bitter singles somewhere, but I suspect that since tomorrow’s a “school night,” I’ll just stay home. Oh, and get my hair cut. For some reason it was pretty easy to come by an appointment tomorrow evening.
The weekend? Pretty quiet. I didn’t leave the house, and liked it. Felt a little bad that I’d missed the flickr meetup on Saturday and the Paintings on a Sunday gathering on (surprisingly enough) Sunday, but not so bad that it got me out of the house. The only excitement, if you want to call it that, was a set of three phone calls to my cell-phone at 1:30 AM on Sunday morning. Since the phone was in the charger, it was close enough to my sleeping body to wake me up. Grr. I wish there was a way to flag numbers (or calls with no caller ID) so the phone wouldn’t ring at all. Let it blink lights or whatever, but I don’t want to hear the rings from the people who are calling for Hussein any more. Heck, I’d even be happy with the phone being smart enough to shut off the ringer during certain hours. That’s just not the kind of thing I think of when plopping it in the charger before going to bed.
- A website called DFL (no, I don’t know what the acronym means) is covering the last place finisher in all the Olympic games this year. I like the idea. [scripting]
- Here’s a neat idea on the web: stuff and me is a Minneapolis guy who takes pictures of himself with stuff. Cheap advertising. [vowe]
- Think you might be homeless soon? Or going on a camping trip? This website that tells you how to Construct a Cardboard Geodesic Dome That Will Survive Burning Man and the Black Rock Desert might prove useful. They say 3-4 hours to put one up, but there’s actually a lot of construction to do ahead of time. Still, it’s pretty darned cool. [boing boing]
- Harpers has an excellent article on The Great American Pork Barrel and how we got to the point where there are no restraints on spending at all in DC. [instapundit]
- Tom Coburn’s got an article in the Wall Street Journal in which he asks other lawmakers to Just Say No to Earmarks. [instapundit]
- Who would take a Bad Neighborhood approach to the problem of pork in Congress? Yes, a “broken windows” approach would work, and the Executive Branch is in charge of policing, but do they have the political will to do anything about the problem? The best quote:
It’s like housebreaking a puppy: If you don’t discipline him the second he does something wrong, it doesn’t work.
Here’s hoping someone will take a rolled-up newspaper to some noses. [instapundit]