http://drinkerthinker.com/blog Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:44:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Walking home from Hana Sushi on a cold January night, 2008. “So somehow I got it into my head that you were going to propose on my birthday. And I know that’s ridiculous and I’m not saying this to make you do it, but I can’t stop thinking about and ... http://drinkerthinker.com/blog/archives/2009/02/10/engagement/ Her Royal Highness Queen Lindstifa tagged me for the Seven Things meme. The Rules, stolen verbatim and vercoden from Beep: Link to your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your post. Share seven facts about yourself in the post. Tag seven people at the end of your post by ... http://drinkerthinker.com/blog/archives/2009/01/11/le-sette-cosas/ It took me a little while to get used to the semi-recent Twitter redesign. And while I still occasionally hunt to remember how to see my older tweets or to get a followers list, I generally like the design. Except for the Direct Message count: ... http://drinkerthinker.com/blog/archives/2008/10/15/hiding-the-direct-message-count-in-twitter/ Dunkin’ Donuts yanks Rachael Ray ad. And here I would have thought they did it because she is impressively annoying and makes me not buy anything she’s shilling. (via beep) http://drinkerthinker.com/blog/archives/2008/05/28/overreaction-ahoy/ Happy National Train Day! * this is a direct quote from the NTD website. http://drinkerthinker.com/blog/archives/2008/05/10/get-your-choo-choo-on/ StatAttak: “Life Expectancy at Birth” T-shirts raise awareness (via How About Orange) Related: NationMaster: hundreds of compilations of world statistics. I can see myself spending way too much time here. http://drinkerthinker.com/blog/archives/2008/05/07/7771-years/ APOD: Airplane Flight Patterns over the USA http://drinkerthinker.com/blog/archives/2008/05/03/the-captain-has-turn-on-the-seatbelt-sign/ There’s a cheerful melody outside, as if someone hung a giant musical mobile over our street. I don’t want to look and see what it really is. http://drinkerthinker.com/blog/archives/2008/05/02/rockabye/ Closing Time - Dave’s Long Box is closing up shop. Dave, you were totally Airwolf; tell The Velvet Marauder I said “hi.” http://drinkerthinker.com/blog/archives/2008/04/23/totally-airwolf/ Clinton laughs off Colombia questions (article via Airbag Longboard) In a campaign that has deteriorated into a series of articles where Candidate A responds to Candidate B’s remarks about what Candidate A said yesterday, I’m not surprised that this issue slipped under my radar. And in fact I don’t ... http://drinkerthinker.com/blog/archives/2008/04/14/lets-get-on-with-the-general-and-beat-mccain-in-the-fall/