Archive for February, 2004
First Half
February 29th 2004 at 3:34 pm
Friday’s day of feeling quite accomplished flipped over into a bitching Saturday, when the payment (less Agent percentage) for signing on the novel came (it’s half the advance, the other half comes in when a final draft is turned in in June).
While it is more money than I’ve ever gotten for writing, I should photocopy [...]
More Rewriting
February 27th 2004 at 10:42 pm
I returned the rewrites on one story. Turned in a paraagraph long bio, so I would say it’s a go. I’ll say who to when I get the go ahead. Very excited about that story.
Pleasantly enought, I got a rewrite request for a different story right after that.
Days like this are nice.
Of course, you’ll have [...]
U.S. Beef
February 27th 2004 at 4:56 pm
One Producer of U.S. Beef Wants to Test All Its Cattle
But no rapid tests have been approved by the United States Department of Agriculture, and department officials pointed out yesterday that it was against the law for any company to sell or market any unapproved diagnostic test. They said they would not respond to Creekstone’s [...]
Gay Democrats ask for marital history of GOP legislators
February 26th 2004 at 9:16 am
Gay Democrats ask for marital history of GOP legislators
…a group of gay Democrats on Monday asked state GOP Chairman Jim Kittle to identify Republican legislators who have been divorced.
The request comes as House Republicans are attempting to force a vote on a proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. The amendment — which Republicans last week [...]
Free Song
February 26th 2004 at 9:12 am
Is it Thursday already? Wow. Anyway, I’ve been accumulating soda caps, so I’m going to release another free iTunes song today. Here you go:
Got iTunes? Wanna free song? Follow the link for a free code for a free song.
Catch?
Two things. Purchase something you normally wouldn’t, take a risk, get an indy song, whatever. Come back [...]
Microsoft Seeks Patent On Virtual Desktop Pager
February 25th 2004 at 11:07 am
Proving once again that MS is incapable of original thought:Microsoft Seeks Patent On Virtual Desktop Pager. These have been available in UNIXs and other OSs for a while. Shit, I’m using on on OS-X right now.
But stick it in an upcoming MS release and call it an innovation and I’ll have people telling me it [...]
Dude
February 25th 2004 at 11:04 am
The Passion of The Christ… So, um, it’s supposed to be ultra realistic and shake us all up, but Jesus is a white dude with green eyes. And all of his friends are white looking.
Anyway, as harsh as the cruxifiction is, whenever I hear about it, I just think wow, hundreds of thieves and anti-Roman [...]
Bush Against Gay Marriage
February 24th 2004 at 3:07 pm
Bush calls for gay marriage ban through constitutional amendment.
The first thing that I wondered was how conservative weblogs would begin spinning this. Instapundit was fairly quiet, but Andrew Sullivan, the opinion I was most interested, wrote:
I wonder if the Bush administration even thought about how mean-spirited this was going to appear. And how nakedly political. [...]
CD Money
February 24th 2004 at 2:01 pm
Today I got $13.89 in the mail from the www.musiccdsettlement.com claim as part of the anti-trust litigation against the record companies.
Now I can afford Thai lunch tomorrow.
