Fifth try’s the charm. I bet I’ll forget it by tomorrow morning… Password: Warning: Your password has expired, please change it now. New Password: sshd-kbdint: The password must contain at least 2 uppercase alpha character(s). New Password: sshd-kbdint: Password too short – must be at least 8 characters. New Password: sshd-kbdint: The password must contain [...]
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i win
I won two passes to see an advanced screening of Hot Tub Time Machine at the Silver Spring Majestic on Thursday. This is the fifth time I’ve won a Washington City Paper contest. Apparently so few people enter them that it’s easy enough to win five times in a five or so year span. I’ve [...]
‘i want it at any cost’
I went and saw Title Tracks at the Backstage of Black Cat last night, which, for those who’ve never been, is a venue that is approximately the size of a large closet. After several weeks of straight touring, they were focused and tight. I’ve seen them half a dozen times or so live now, and [...]
covert reading ops
I’ve been reading a lot lately (more on that later), so I’ve been frequenting the Prince George’s County Memorial Library in Hyattsville, Md. I fondly remember going to the C. Burr Artz Public Library in Frederick with my parents and brother as a kid at least monthly. I’m not sure that I read even half [...]
kornheiser suspended, world rejoices
The Washington Post reported today that Tony Kornheiser was suspended from the air by ESPN for making unflattering comments about his colleague Hannah Storm’s wardrobe. (I consider myself unqualified to make such a sartorial criticism.) Lately I have gotten into the habit of watching him and Michael Wilbon on PTI each evening, so I find [...]
undies
If nothing else I am known as a man with umpteen pet peeves. One of them is CAPTCHA. (It’s an acronym–I won’t provide the full expansion here for fear of barfing on my keyboard out of its sheer inanity.) I guess it’s great that it reduces comment spam and mass bot purchasing on Ticketmaster, but, [...]
photographic redunancy
My roommates and I hosted a party on Saturday night. The attendance was zero. Being the irrepressible scamps that we are, we partied by ourselves and took pictures anyway. Here’s a poorly Photoshopped one of me regaling me with a rather ribald anecdote that cannot be repeated here due to my intractable sense of public [...]
etymological redundancy
From last month’s Washington Post: “Metro Transit Police say they have a new unit working to deter terrorists from targeting the transit system.” Deter is from the Latin de (from) + terrere (to frighten), which is also the origin of terrorist. They used two words in a row that share a common derivation of a [...]