Wednesday, May 17, 2006

blackout

So my new job has a zero tolerance policy on personal Internet usage. This is a policy that I actually understand, I just don't understand why all of their computers are wired to the Internet. Because fast talking venture capitalists told them how useful it would be back in the mid-90's.

This does make blogging fairly difficult, also means that I'm out of email contact all day. It is kind of nice to come home every night and have lots of email at once.

It also means I'm several hours behind on the events of the day, which is always angrifying.

So Paul McCartney's getting divorced huh? That's sad. I like him. A lot.

I wonder if anyone's made a joke containing some variation or other on "Will you still need me when I'm sixty four?" "No."

I'm not condoning making such a joke. I'm just wondering.

An old colleague of mine, Jacob Kennedy, recently noted that my website seems to be the only left leaning blog in the world not to have commented on Stephen Colbert's performance at the White House Correspondents Dinner a couple of weeks ago, in which he verbally assasinated the President of the United States and the American news media while the former and representatives of the latter were sitting not ten feet from him.

Indeed, I should have commented on what I thought of that performance, so I will now rectify that:

It was awesome.

This is one of the quirkier conversations I've had in a while, in a bar I was in last night:

ACQUAINTANCE: Why are you carrying a book with you?

ME: What?

ACQUAINTANCE: Is it a conversation piece? Like "I'm reading a book. I'm so above you"?

ME: (Blinking) ...Yes, that's exactly it.

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