Posts from 2005
2005
December
I love the Silent Hill series of video games | December 1
| Tagged: entertainment
Ho Ho Ho | December 13
| Tagged: personal
Reviewers without reviews | December 18
| Tagged: critique, culture, meta, modern_times, movies
Posted a number of articles over at nanostalgia.com | December 18
| Tagged: critique, culture
Poetic communication | December 18
| Tagged: writing
When eating a Kasugai gummy I remember the wisdom of Social Bobcat-san | December 18
| Tagged: personal
A bit of Christmas eros | December 22
| Tagged: philosophy_proper
Does Steven G. Harms dislike the red states? | December 29
| Tagged: personal
post-Christmas | December 29
| Tagged: personal
November
Mysteries of the high-tech work environment... | November 2
| Tagged: internet_culture, personal
In sickness | November 2
| Tagged: meta, personal
During my trip to Austin last month.... | November 5
| Tagged: austin, travelogue
I bought a new snowboard this week | November 5
| Tagged: personal, toys
The Bay Area is special because... | November 13
| Tagged: culture, movies
Posting at a different blog | November 18
| Tagged: personal
Good movie weekend | November 18
| Tagged: entertainment
My thoughts on "Walk the Line" over at Nanostalgia | November 22
| Tagged: movies
Good movie weekend | November 22
| Tagged: entertainment
How I handled the Good Movie Weekend | November 22
| Tagged: movies
I love my apple all the time | November 22
| Tagged: apple, toys
Nicky Hilton, reality. Reality, Nicky Hilton | November 22
| Tagged: culture, mysticism
Cointstar == Book Magic! | November 22
| Tagged: books
Truth in Advertising | November 23
| Tagged: politics
Dr. Wayne Dyer: Living an Inspired Life | November 23
| Tagged: entertainment
Vaya con Miyagi | November 25
| Tagged: entertainment, rip
Real life intervenes... | November 27
| Tagged: personal
Can’t we all just get along... | November 28
| Tagged: culture
What I loved Most about Kill Bill 2 | November 30
| Tagged: entertainment
October
Political map... | October 4
| Tagged: politics
Back from Austin | October 5
| Tagged: travelogue, austin
Google Wifi | October 9
| Tagged: mountain_view
REVEALED: Cameron Crowe’s "Elizabethtown" Secret Formula | October 10
| Tagged: entertainment
The social bobcat lashes out against FoxNews | October 14
| Tagged: critique
An in-depth explanation of the Asherah virus, as described in Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash | October 17
| Tagged: books, critique, entertainment
September
Hooray for George Bush Republicanism | September 5
| Tagged: politics
Ethical birth-control OR The Coldplay Experience? | September 6
| Tagged: books, critique, music, mysticism
Some people think, great God will come from the sky... | September 8
| Tagged: politics
Finished The Historian | September 11
| Tagged: books
Some things must be left behind, New Orleans is one of them | September 13
| Tagged: culture, politics
Interpol! | September 16
| Tagged: critique, culture, entertainment
Overheard at the Interpol concert | September 19
| Tagged: entertainment
Is the world ready for the return of NPH* ? | September 19
| Tagged: entertainment
The Children of the Gulf Coast look Homeward (Angel) | September 23
| Tagged: personal, politics
George W. Bush – Today Show Weatherman | September 25
| Tagged: politics
Finished...Macroscope | September 25
| Tagged: books, critique
Worried about the new season of Numb3rs... | September 26
| Tagged: critique, culture, entertainment
Wisdom comes from IBM | September 26
| Tagged: entertainment, ruminations, internet_culture
Weekend wrap-up | September 26
| Tagged: personal
Mad propz to mice! | September 26
| Tagged: personal
Purchased ecto | September 26
| Tagged: cocoa, blogging
Steven on the state of pop music | September 26
| Tagged: critique, entertainment, music
The upside of Empire: Rudyard Kipling | September 26
| Tagged: critique, culture, entertainment
Concert promoters need a reality check | September 27
| Tagged: critique, culture, entertainment, music
August
Finished Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | August 3
| Tagged: critique
Murder | August 4
| Tagged: philosophy_proper
Hooray for foamorder.com | August 4
| Tagged: personal
New Bedroom Set | August 4
| Tagged: personal
/usr/bin/vacation | August 4
| Tagged: personal
Nasty Stuff: Never eat pulparindo | August 4
| Tagged: personal
Vacation wrap-up... | August 14
| Tagged: personal, travelogue
Flying through Melbotisland | August 14
| Tagged: internet_culture
The War on Terror, as seen by a Unix admin | August 18
| Tagged: geopolitics, bush
Steven On: Not living up to your potential | August 18
| Tagged: entertainment
Intelligent Falling | August 19
| Tagged: modern_times, politics
This is my first test of ecto | August 20
| Tagged: ecto
Great news for Lispers! | August 21
| Tagged: lisp, osx
It’s been a while since my last quiz post... | August 22
| Tagged: personal
What's harder to find...? | August 23
| Tagged: video_games
One of my most bad-assest toys (er, metatoys) | August 23
| Tagged: toys
Don’t we all love... | August 24
| Tagged: entertainment
Going to see Interpol in San Jose! | August 25
| Tagged: entertainment
Yet another vote for "The Forty Year-Old Virgin" | August 25
| Tagged: entertainment
Revelation: The Movies Suck! | August 25
| Tagged: entertainment
Lauren Bacall... | August 26
| Tagged: modern_times
Reading the Houston Press | August 26
| Tagged: travelogue
Grammatical or Spelling error? | August 26
| Tagged: ruminations
Dust devils on Mars | August 28
| Tagged: general, meta, space
Reality Check: War on Drugs | August 29
| Tagged: politics
Where were you when unix power tools were first mentioned on WB evening soaps? | August 29
| Tagged: entertainment
Heirloom boots | August 29
| Tagged: personal
July
Watching some noir this long weekend | July 4
| Tagged: life_and_death, movies
Summer Insomnia | July 6
| Tagged: toys
What’d you do with your 3 day weekend? Damaged Furniture :( ... | July 6
| Tagged: personal
Hillary Clinton: Republicans do pop-culture idiocy, close-mindedness, indignation better. | July 15
| Tagged: politics
Mythos | July 24
| Tagged: politics, bush
Emacs v. vi is rooted in the love of Lisp | July 24
| Tagged: vi, emacs, editors, unix, programming, internet_culture
A happy day to us, my Bretheren | July 29
| Tagged: internet_culture
Mice visits the recent Internet Past | July 30
| Tagged: internet_culture
June
Steven Morrissey, the Elder | June 1
| Tagged: music
On the subject of "Hollaback Girl" | June 1
| Tagged: music
A hat-trick of music related posts | June 1
| Tagged: music
In the city, in training | June 2
| Tagged: personal
Early morning graphic novel reading: V for Vendetta | June 4
| Tagged: books, culture
I like "Numb3rs" ? and it’s been renewed! | June 4
| Tagged: entertainment
Finished The World is Flat | June 4
| Tagged: books, culture
I’m secretly paranoid | June 4
| Tagged: culture, modern_times, personal
I love ancient software that’s artistic sensible and impeccably well designed | June 4
| Tagged: culture, software
Paris Hilton porn-burger | June 4
| Tagged: critique, culture, modern_times
Emailing Corporate Overlords: McDonald’s | June 12
| Tagged: critique, culture, modern_times
McDonalds wrote back | June 13
| Tagged: critique, culture, modern_times
The Downing Street Memo | June 13
| Tagged: politics
What is the function of religion? | June 14
| Tagged: culture
Steven’s Pic for "Whatsinyourbag" | June 15
| Tagged: personal, pictures
Waiting for the movers.... | June 15
| Tagged: personal
If I were to turn to the Dark Side of the Force.. | June 17
| Tagged: personal
More mau-mauing McDonalds | June 20
| Tagged: critique, culture
Normally I’m nice to Scientologists | June 20
| Tagged: scientology
A movie cliché? that must go away` | June 23
| Tagged: critique, movies
Sports news! | June 23
| Tagged: sports
Frustrated, and wanting Kant | June 25
| Tagged: philosophy_proper
‘Horns win College World Series! | June 26
| Tagged: sports
HD vertigo | June 26
| Tagged: toys
Tom Cruise, Idiot. | June 28
| Tagged: culture, entertainment, modern_times
Finished Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim | June 28
| Tagged: entertainment, books
Hurry up, Nick Carter | June 30
| Tagged: entertainment
Separated at Birth? | June 30
| Tagged: entertainment
May
Neither edgy, nor timely, but still insanely funny | May 1
| Tagged: modern_times
A bit of reading | May 1
| Tagged: books
How amazing is Patricia Clarkson? | May 1
| Tagged: entertainment, movies
IM chat and drink coffee around The Social Bobcat at your own risk | May 4
| Tagged: entertainment
Separated at birth? | May 4
| Tagged: music
Yes, I’m the pervert at the coffee shop | May 8
| Tagged: culture
Thoughts on Tiger | May 8
| Tagged: osx
Finished Eat Shoots & Leaves | May 8
| Tagged: art_and_design
If you want to sell me something, a recipe | May 8
| Tagged: arete, art_and_design, entertainment
Haaayyy yoooouuu guyyyyyss! Goonies 2 !!!! | May 9
| Tagged: entertainment
Clerical Errors for Clerics | May 10
| Tagged: philosophy_proper
Need a job? Proofreader at AOL? | May 13
| Tagged: critique, culture, entertainment
Great news; "Revenge of the Sith" rocked | May 19
| Tagged: movies
Finished Snow Crash | May 25
| Tagged: books, mysticism
I can’t draw... | May 25
| Tagged: worklife
More thoughts on Stem Cell and the Culture of Life | May 26
| Tagged: politics, bush
Hurry up, Macauly! | May 26
| Tagged: art_and_design, entertainment, music
April
Just saw "Sin City" | April 1
| Tagged: entertainment
Urban Ruins | April 3
| Tagged: art_and_design
The FCC and ‘decency’ | April 3
| Tagged: modern_times, politics
In a meeting, thus I tend the James Dedman Music Challenge | April 4
| Tagged: entertainment
On broadcast propriety | April 4
| Tagged: entertainment, modern_times
I loved Bowie in the early 80s | April 4
| Tagged: music
If I had a dinner table and my choice of diners | April 6
| Tagged: entertainment
The psychology of rate-me sites | April 8
| Tagged: internet_culture
Writer porn | April 11
| Tagged: writing
Quiz Time: What is this? | April 12
| Tagged: modern_times
Another funny conversation with the Social Bobcat | April 12
| Tagged: modern_times
Few things are as painful | April 16
| Tagged: entertainment
WHERE IS THE DVD OF HAL HARTLEY’S TRUST? | April 16
| Tagged: entertainment
Can’t we all just get along? vi vs. emacs | April 17
| Tagged: vi, emacs, editors, unix, internet_culture
The Italian direction of Law & Order | April 22
| Tagged: entertainment
Things you may not have known about The British Monarchy | April 24
| Tagged: education
An odd film career | April 24
| Tagged: movies
When Tivo goes bad | April 26
| Tagged: entertainment, politics, toys
March
Ah, the follies of youth... | March 1
| Tagged: politics
Lisp problem solved | March 4
| Tagged: lisp
American Aesthetics, European Splendour | March 7
| Tagged: art_and_design
This pine box ain’t strong enough to contain these afro locks! | March 11
| Tagged: music
I enjoy "Two and a Half Men" | March 11
| Tagged: entertainment
The magic of imagination, Ed Emberley | March 17
| Tagged: personal
A-ha haters come to Mice’s assistance | March 17
| Tagged: culture, personal
Leigh, and others, if you want to send me mail me | March 18
| Tagged: politics
I hate those bastards in traffic | March 18
| Tagged: modern_times
Lessons for my children Volume I | March 20
| Tagged: personal
RIP, DEA | March 20
| Tagged: politics
Sometimes I envy... | March 24
| Tagged: personal, blogging
Which OS are YOU? | March 29
| Tagged: personal, linux
I’m sick | March 30
| Tagged: personal
My sickening fascination with Paul Graham’s work | March 31
| Tagged: internet_culture
Whoever is doing marketing at Burger King understand viral marketing | March 31
| Tagged: entertainment, internet_culture, memes
The Schiavo Case | March 31
| Tagged: personal
February
Holy Hopkin Green Frog! They found my wallet! | February 1
| Tagged: culture
Read your memoes | February 11
| Tagged: politics
Happy Valentine’s Day | February 14
| Tagged: personal
A grammatical question | February 17
| Tagged: linguistics
Being ones father’s son. | February 17
| Tagged: personal
Want to learn LISP on Mac OS X | February 19
| Tagged: lisp, osx, programming
The very well researched: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas | February 19
| Tagged: entertainment
White House seeds audience to toss softballs, run gay porn site? | February 19
| Tagged: politics
Am I allergic to Grape Nuts? | February 19
| Tagged: personal
Thompson kills self, self-euthanasia | February 21
| Tagged: culture
The evolution of meaning | February 22
| Tagged: education, modern_times
New Mole-a-skeen-uh | February 23
| Tagged: personal
What is the opposite of recursion? | February 23
| Tagged: art_and_design
Is James Dedman ill? | February 24
| Tagged: friends
Down and out in the suburban paradise | February 26
| Tagged: personal
A weekend spent battling Lisp | February 27
| Tagged: lisp, programming
I’m sorry, but Scientology is kooky... | February 28
| Tagged: personal
January
Letter from Chick-fil-a | January 2
| Tagged: personal
Siouxsie... | January 2
| Tagged: entertainment
People of the world, speak more precisely | January 3
| Tagged: culture, linguistics, pedantry
McDonald’s: Fire your ad agency | January 3
| Tagged: culture
New spelling lesson | January 3
| Tagged: news!
9/11 Strike on Pentagon a Missile or Military aircraft | January 4
| Tagged: politics
Please, please, let Ashlee’s career be over now | January 5
| Tagged: entertainment
Great news from CNN! | January 5
| Tagged: news!
Cead Mille Failte | January 6
| Tagged: general
New band that has knocked me off my rocker | January 8
| Tagged: entertainment
The problem with videos these days | January 9
| Tagged: culture
White Noise Review, Ideas, Meaning | January 17
| Tagged: entertainment
Lite on the blog-activity lately... | January 17
| Tagged: travelogue
Reading and Flying.. | January 17
| Tagged: personal
Great Saturday Night Live this weekend | January 17
| Tagged: entertainment
Apple’s Sweet Spot | January 18
| Tagged: apple
Bush’s iPod | January 18
| Tagged: entertainment
Is stevengharms an e-snob? | January 20
| Tagged: critique
Ruby | January 23
| Tagged: ruby
Postcards from Hiroshima | January 23
| Tagged: personal
Merlin made me a Hipster PDA | January 23
| Tagged: culture
Grape Gummy | January 23
| Tagged: modern_times
Rilo Kiley | January 23
| Tagged: music
Closure on an internet meme: Hopkin Green Frog | January 23
| Tagged: culture
Back from a long weekend in Lake Tahoe | January 30
| Tagged: personal
I still despise Ann Coulter | January 31
| Tagged: entertainment