09 Jan 2004
I just finished reading The Little Friend by Donna Tartt. I really liked her previous book, The Secret History when I read it a decade ago, so I figured I’d give it a go. It’s a good read, with some really gripping moments and highly believable characters. The only complaint I have with the book is that the ending doesn’t really tie up all the threads that are laid out during the telling; I suppose that’s the whole idea, that the book is primarily a character study, but it’s a shame that a fine, nicely written story has such a lackluster conclusion. It almost feels like the first four-fifths of a book rather than a complete work.
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08 Jan 2004
Check out this
technical overview of Mac OS X. It’s written primarily for Linux geeks, and gives a nice wide picture of how the system is laid out, what happens during the boot procedure, etc. The author sums up with a little
opinion piece explaining the pros and cons of Mac OS X vis-a-vis Windows and Linux.
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07 Jan 2004
Finally!
After nearly two months offline, nuthole.com is now once again available to the teeming masses. The story of our absence is the all-too-common, sad tale of broadband companies failing to live up to their commitments, which won’t be retold here.
Anyway, we’re now back in business. Let’s celebrate with a link to a slightly aged article by Molly Ivins entitled “Is America Texas?” about the impending Texafication of the nation.
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02 Dec 2003
Some of you may have seen (in some obscure media outlet) mention of Neil Bush admitting, in his divorce papers, that he played around with some undisclosed number of prostitutes in Southeast Asia while he was there “on business”. Of course, this son-of-a-Bush can’t just come clean, no; he is compelled to wrap this misadventure in a lie: see, the women simply knocked on his hotel door and then had sex with him; He didn’t pay them, and therefore didn’t know they were callgirls! Perhaps Neil thought his animal magnetism was so strong that women could smell him right through the door and out in the street, and simply had to have him. That he was there as a guest/“business partner” of the son of the former president of China doesn’t seem to come into play there at all.
So, the obvious questions:
- How would the media handle this if it were Bill Clinton’s brother?
- How does that compare with the actual media treatment?
Oh, that liberal bias, eh?
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23 Nov 2003
Check out this excellent letter by a Vietnam veteran concerning our the current US occupation of Iraq.
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