Keith's Complete Waste of Time

was the King of All Cosmos, from the video game series Katamari Damarcy. I made most of the costume; the headpiece is tagboard shaped into a tube and strengthened with some styrofoam discs I cut out, then covered with an appropriate fabric. The cape is a purple with felt shapes ( which you [...]

We replaced the roofs in our townhouse complex this fall. It was quite an endeavor, and I should probably write an entry about it too, but one of the things that our roofer told us he’d do if we wanted was install any skylights or vent fans basically for free, given that he was [...]

and because nobody actually reads this blog, so I can participate in the vast left-wing conspiracy…
Richard Pombo
is running for re-election to his seat in the House of Representatives. He’s not in my district, but one about thirty minutes south-east of where I live. Nonetheless, I really hope he loses.

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And, I think I may be more cynical than he is, in that I’m not sure if we’ll ever get back to a ‘democracy’, if we ever really were there at all.

This is pretty fricking cool.
HowTo: Read Wikipedia on an iPod « Movin’ to Seattle: “

There are concerns that folks shouldn’t be scraping Wikipedia in this way to get lots of data that they likely won’t directly read, and likely the author will update the script to be a bit nicer to the servers, so you [...]

well, for reasons that should be pretty obvious.
“I did not vote for him. Please accept my apologies.”
Loretta says she can get it for me in Japanese; I obviously know it in English, and I know these as well:
Canadian: “I did not vote for him, eh? Please accept my apologies.”
Australian: “Crickey, I did [...]