Stuff to Read When This Site Sucks

Dooce [PG]: Coming to Terms with the Y Chromosome. And I’m not trying to pick a fight or necessarily make a sweeping generalization, it’s just a conclusion I’ve come to after years and years of empirical study. My husband is an airhead, all of his male friends are airheads, all of my friends’ husbands and boyfriends are airheads. I’ve never met an exception. Dooce’s one of those people who is much, much funnier than I am. And, yes, according to this article, I, too, am an airhead.

Mark Pilgrim [PG]: First step. But anyway, after the meal, after the chatter, after the bill is split and the tip is calculated and everyone has run to the bathroom and gathered up their things and said goodnight, I always make it a point to notice that first step outside the restaurant. As I�m stepping outside, crossing the threshhold of the doorway, I purposely take a deep breath and let the outside air fill my lungs. I still do this, to this day. At that moment, I realize that I�ve made it, I�ve survived the evening, I�m still stone cold sober and ready to face whatever lies ahead for the rest of the night.

Palm Infocenter: Hands-on Review: Sony Clie NZ90. Sony has stunned the handheld world once again with the feature-packed NZ90. The NZ90 continues Sony’s mission to create the ultimate multimedia entertainment organizer. It improves on the NX-series with even more features and integrates the most advanced and useful digital camera ever found on a handheld. What I would have bought if we had $800 just lying around.

TheOoze: A Churchless Faith. The post-congregationals have left the building. Not just any building. Our church buildings. That means no Sunday school and donuts at 9 a.m. or worship at 11. No more ‘You preach, I’ll listen.’ On their way out, they were overheard to say: ‘Why won’t someone at least listen to the tough questions?’ ‘If Christianity is about community, why am I so bruised and battered?’ An article that poses more questions than answers about a topic that everyone knows but no one is talking about. What’s interesting, too, is that the author himself seems to have little grasp of the relationships that are required to make a community work in the first place.

Man, linking to PG rated blogs and using the word “sucks” in the title again. Next thing you know I’ll be buyin’ a Harley and takin’ my old lady cross-country to hold up liquor stores. ;-)

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7 Responses to Stuff to Read When This Site Sucks

  1. jenny says:

    Hey, Kenny, who is Mark Pilgrim? I really enjoyed reading that, PG rating or no.

  2. Jai says:

    Hey Kenny, can I have the source code for your category archive templates, I like how they look and I wanna copy that concept, but I don’t feel like figuring out where the MT tags go because I don’t really wanna go back to the support forum of MT cause it’s like a crap shoot in there…

  3. Ken says:

    Jen, Mark Pilgrim is a pretty jazzy guy who has a weblog called “Dive Into Mark.” It’s usually a forum for him to post really interesting and nerdy posts about web technologies (though lately, his whereabouts have been unknown). ;-)
    The story he wrote there was one of his “100 Stories” project. If you dug that, you might dig this post [PG]—which apparently got him into some trouble at work…

    Mark is on my daily reading list…which, come to think of it, I should really add to my links.

  4. kenswife says:

    K…I don’t really have anything funny to say. I just need to address the fact that I was just referred to as “my old lady”.

    OK. I’m done.

  5. Ken says:

    I don’t know, Schmoze…that was pretty funny. ;-)

  6. jenny says:

    are you guys fighting? because if you are….I need to leave…..

    =:O

    I did read the addiction article. It is thought provoking, and I think it would not be too difficult to extract many of the emotions, actions, and thoughts out of it and apply it to most habitual sins.

    just throwing out my 2 cents….

  7. MADL says:

    As the president of the motorcycle anti-defamation league, I must take offense at your portrayal of the stereotypical criminal motorcyclist. Firstly, studies have shown that 99% of motorcyclists make the other 1% look bad. Secondly, I’m going to beat you up right now with a crowbar. Then we’ll see who uses stereotypes.

    Huh? That’s right I didn’t hear anything. Pansy. Also 5% of all proceeds from motorcycle gang holdups must be given to support the MADL. I’ll be expecting your check.