Jon of Ransom Note Typography conducted a rather lengthy interview with me. It is available here.
My friend The Other Matthew also talked to me for a class project. That interview can be found here. I did not actually verify that the perl code would compile before I sent it; if you discover that it does not, I don’t want to hear about it.
Is everyone clear on the specifics of the US Attorney debacle, or should I do another Scandal Cheatsheet, as I did with the Plame Investigation? I was talking with some co-workers earlier today and surprised to discover that they didn’t really have any clear idea what was going on; now I’m wondering if that’s true of most normal people (i.e., those who, unlike me, don’t obsessively follow political blogs).
In the comments, please let me know if you’d like a primer, if you don’t feel the need for a primer, or if you are so uninterested in the whole thing that you wouldn’t read a primer even if I wrote it. Thanks.
Update: People clearly need / want a primer, so now I ask that you use the comments to put specific questions you’d like addressed (e.g., “I don’t understand is how this is news –
hasn’t he [Bush] done that [kicked out people who didn’t do what he wanted] for what? 7 years now?”)
Update2: The primer will appear Monday in The Morning News. Keep those questions coming.
Well, let’s try this …
Continuing my habit of adopting trends five years after they are in fashion, I’ve started a linkblog.
It’s over there in the right sidebar (—>), and the xml feed is available here.
The following post was inspired by the thirty-sixth suggestion in No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog, which was randomly selected by Jan Ives of Dr Jan’s Tips From The Top.
To: Ma Baldwin
From: Matthew Baldwin
Date: Jan 26, 2007 11:58 AM
Subject: Embarrassing photo
Hi, mom. This week my defective yeti posts are based on a book of blog suggestion. I had my readers randomly select the topics, and today I'm supposed to post an embarrassing photo from when I was younger. I sure you have a few laying around the house. Can you pick one, scan it, and send it my way?
Love,
Matthew
To: Matthew Baldwin
From: Ma Baldwin
Date: Jan 26, 2007 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: Embarrassing photo
Here you go. I love this photo, but I bet you are probably embarrassed by it.
Love,
Mom
To: Ma Baldwin
From: Matthew Baldwin
Date: Jan 26, 2007 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: Embarrassing photo
Oh, god. You win that bet.
Thanks,
Sort of,
Matthew
Yes, I’ll run the Do-It-Yourself Oscar Poll Page again this year. Gimmie a few days; I’ll have it set up by Friday.
Apparently Valley Wag has named me one of the 12 Funniest People on the Internet. I assume they mean “funny” in the sense of “does this mu shu pork taste funny to you?” because, otherwise, I can’t imagine how I wound up in the company of Ze Frank and Bob Powers.
Anyway, if you are coming here from that article, allow me to direct you to the favorite posts page, where some of these alleged gut-busters reside.
Good news: five days after a devastating Seattle windstorm, the lights are back on at my house, the kitties are warm, and all is again good in the world. Best of all, I can resume posting to defective yeti.
And not a moment too soon, as I have some hilarious observations about parking meters to share with you. Hah hah — oh man, you’re going to love these.
You see, the other day I was driving around in my H3, and I happened to notice–
Oops, Mount St. Helens is erupting. Gotta go.
Yes, it’s that most magical time of the year: time to send me links to the stupidest crap available for purchase on the Internet, for inclusion in my annual “Holiday Survival Guide for Slackers.” Please post in the comments of this thread, or send to matthew@defectiveyeti.
Aerial shot of my neighborhood:
Hey! I think I can not see my house from here!
defective yeti will resume when I again have electricity, phone service, Internet connectivity, and my cats are no longer trying to burrow into my torso for warmth.