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Monthly Archives October 2006

Fun with numbers

Among the enduring traditions af American travel is the breakfast-time persual of USA Today in hotel foyers. Yesterday’s paper included a story on the Halloween-weekend festivities in Madison, Wis., and the (purportedly) successful management thereof. It contains the following: In Madison, an annual street party drew 35,000 costumed revelers Saturday night, less than half the [...]

Posted 31 October 2006 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments (1) °

On hiatus

I leave tomorrow for a week and a half of election madness somewhere in this great country of ours; posting will be light, if it happens at all, until November 8. In the meantime, enjoy the picture above, which was taken on October 26 outside the local Goodwill Industries retailer. That’s me under the light, [...]

Posted 28 October 2006 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments Off °

more.stuff.to.read

Do you enjoy this website but wish I would post more often? Forget it! But here’s a compromise: the internet is full of websites that I think are interesting, but I am a lazy writer. I don’t want to talk about every link I see, but I do want lots and lots of people to [...]

Posted 27 October 2006 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments (1) °

Crystal-ballin’

For some reason, this feels like it might be a lucky day for me, which means — naturally — that it’s a good day to make my official predictions for the composition of the 110th Congress. Get your popcorn ready. We’ll start with the Senate, since handicapping House races is about 13 times harder. (There [...]

Posted 26 October 2006 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments (1) °

The first rule of webcomics is

Some people read horoscopes and find relevance in them that seems impossible to ascribe to coincidence. (Have I written something like this before? Yes!) I think I now know why a disproportionate number of outgoing links on this website point to qwantz.com: Ryan North, author of Dinosaur Comics, is my Tyler Durden. He stays up [...]

Posted 25 October 2006 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments Off °