Good Grief!

No, really…Welcome to Finland. And as they say over on Schizoblog:
Okei! Kuka hemmetti on WTF Online takana? Tietenkin WTF voi olla lyhenne sanoista “Welcome To Finland”, mutta kyllä se tunnetaan yleisesti lyhenteenä sanoista “What The Fuck”.
What is that? Is that Finnish? Are they talking about us?
Via Metafilter.

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Since I’ve been nodding off in front of the computer, boss-across-the-hall thought he would be helpful and loan me a CD (we aren’t allowed to stream music from the internet anymore—some annoying policy about conserving bandwidth for business use). So what we have here is a copy of Maroon 5’s Songs About Jane.
This record […]

Good Grief! is reinventing itself–less frequent, more fun. Coming soon!

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For some reason, I thought that attending a programmers’ user group meeting would be a good way to spend the evening of St. Patrick’s Day. I learned some useful things, but at what cost?
First of all, out of 50 or 60 attendees, no more than 5 were women. That means we’ve got a […]

Is this an old joke? Maybe. I don’t care–it cracked me up, and I don’t crack up that easily. See Bush’s Hotmail account.
Thanks to GeekPress.

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Seems like a good time to consider Lost in the Cosmos (subtitled the “Last Self-Help Book”) by Walker Percy. An ex introduced me to this work, and I’m glad he did, though I was never quite sure why he thought I needed a self-help book. It’s hard to describe (click the link and […]

After reading The Navigator’s recent Spain and the aftermath of the Madrid bombings entry, I feel compelled to post. Frankly, I’m disturbed by the rush to analyze and spin this tragedy. Sure, everyone has posted the “what a horrible attack, I denounce it, and my heart goes out to the victims” sentiment (with […]

As you may know, The Economist recently ran a cover story on the case for gay marriage. The letters page of the current issue is devoted to reader responses. My favorite is a letter from Paul Tan of New York:
Gay marriage is about equality. There is nothing conservative about denying gays equal benefits […]

Someone asked if I’d ever found the source of my computer’s mysterious bling-bling noise. I figured it out but never updated the post because the truth is just too embarrassing.
The noise was never coming from my computer. The guy-next-door to boss-across-the-hall recently increased his computer’s volume, making the sound effects audible […]

UPDATE 4/26/2004: I don’t know what’s afoot in the grammar world, but this page is suddenly getting a tremendous amount of hits on searches for “queen’s grammar,” etc. If you’re looking for more information on Professor Sinha and his book, I’m sorry that this site can’t be more helpful–I looked for a useful […]