Die, spare time, die

One-word review of The Sims 2: Wow. Perhaps more frothing if I get around to it, but it's so hard just to alt-tab away for this long....

beeform is gone for the rest of the week. Perfect timing. Pity kauricat couldn't join her, as Bee misses seein' her there.

And even though I lost my job, it's good to know that I'm not alone -- that 403,300 IT-employed Americans have been sent home since 2001.

I want to hear him say it. John Kerry knows he can win the election (or just inflame half the country) by asking this one little question: "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?" But oooo, imagine the furor.

Oy

In the Matrix. On Sicily. With Bella Abzug, Connie Chung and Joe Lockhart. Featuring Led Zepplin. Discussing the tapestry of fate and destiny and cultural overtones of Japanese arcade games. And that was just my first dream this morning.

George W. Bush speechwriter

This is what the Internet is for. From former-boss.

"I will take innocent life again and again as we have done before against Iraq's neighbors and kill thousands of innocent people and our friends for their own safety."

Must get back to the Sims. I've got one sick Sim and another who's afraid of vermin and having parties.

Update from Winfield: Bee's accidentally locked the phone and can't get it unlocked. Our PINs and the default number don't work. Any suggestions, Alltel gurus?

Hook, line, sinker

Topeka Capital-Journal publisher John Fish has resigned. This comes two months after the resignation of executive editor Will Kennedy.

I love it when this is one of only two stories I hear on the local bit of public radio, the other being a four-minute long Amber Alert.