Jan - 10th
Thinking outside the box
Posted at 1:12 am | Filed Under blog
On the Pigdog list (“Bad Craziness at Impossible Speeds”) We’re talking about having Arnold save the country via a congressional amendment to allow foreign-born citizens to run for president. > The much more straightforward way is to simply declare war > against Austria, annex it, and then it’s part of the U.S. Nah, Austria’s in […]
Jul - 15th
Driving then and now
Posted at 7:01 am | Filed Under blog
I went for a drive on my lunch hour today in my multi-airbag, ABS-equipped, V-6 sedan, and the song “Red Barchetta” came on the radio. It made me think of old convertibles. I drove a Fiat 850 Spyder in high school – it had a wooden dashboard, chrome rear-view mirrors, that super UV-proof thick vinyl […]
May - 23rd
Strapping Young Lad
Posted at 4:47 am | Filed Under blog
… Went to go see a killer band — Strapping Young Lad — last night at The Pound, a little metal club out in Dogpatch/Hunter’s Point/Bayview/whatever it’s called nowadays. I haven’t been to a clubin years…Lots of metal twenty-somethings, a mosh pit, a surprising amount of thirty-somethings, and lots of blonde hair. It was an […]
Jun - 14th
LOMO Smena-35 Manual
Posted at 9:49 am | Filed Under blog
I just scanned in the manual for my little Russian plastic piece-o-crap camera, the Lomo Smena-35. I’ve put the HTML-ized version of the manual up at http://www.kataan.org/smena/index.html . Gotta love the cold-war Soviet Union-era manual: The Smena-35 camera is safe for health, life, and property of the consumer and environment as confirmed in declaration # […]
Mar - 16th
Systems Update
Posted at 9:46 am | Filed Under blog
We’re mopping up after what seems like one of the rainiest winters on record! It’s been sunny for a few days straight, so my leaky office roof can finally dry out, and work can continue on my employer’s heating system. www.kataan.org is doing nicely; it’s hosting my mail, running this web site and providing network services […]
Apr - 22nd
Shermer High School, Shermer, Illinois, 60062
Posted at 9:45 am | Filed Under blog
March 24, 1984 Shermer High School, Shermer, Illinois, 60062 Dear Mr. Vernon, We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. And what we did was wrong. But we think you’re crazy making us write an essay telling you who we think we […]
Apr - 15th
.plan files
Posted at 9:42 am | Filed Under blog
Remember .plan files? I found my old .plan: Here it is again. Some clueless FOOL talking about the “Information Superhighway.” They don’t know JACK about the net. It’s NOTHING like a Superhighway. That’s a BAD metaphor. Yeah, but suppose the metaphor ran in the OTHER direction. Suppose the HIGHWAYS were like the NET. All right! […]
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