Archive for category: Asides

Managerial incompetence explained    (2011.05.22)

“A mentor of mine… once explained for me the difference between police officers who do police work and those who devote themselves to advancing up the chain of command”

‘Pee-Wee Gets an iPad’    (2011.05.22)

Correcting my 55-year-old friend

Antitoyne    (2011.05.19)

Somebody tell Becky Toyne that Canadian English is not “muddled… with American words and (mostly) British spellings”

Pride CAP report copy-edits up    (2011.05.18)

Pride Community Advisory Panel copy-edits are now up for viewing by anyone (and for comment by a few).

Douché!    (2011.05.16)

“When you have to concede that someone has made a good counterargument, but they’re being a jerk about it”

Outlandish statement by Julian Assange    (2011.05.13)

Facebook et al. “have an interface that they have developed for U.S. intelligence to use.” Citation needed

Best. Two-graf denunciation of beefcake calendar. Ever    (2011.05.13)

Two punch grafs in Xtra. (“They were going for a beefcake calendar but wound up with a rice-cake calendar”)

Most Modernist house for most heterosexualist Web designer    (2011.05.13)

How did Mike Davidson go from six figures to five to a Modernist dream house?

‘Men exhibition in public place’    (2011.05.04)

Flickr set of manipulated photographs so baffling they must be art