http://www.thefreefood.net ... now half as hungry and twice as pretentious Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:34:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It is long past time to throw in the towel on this blog. I mean, I thrown in the towel on this blog many times before. Then, on various inspired whims, unthrown it for a spell. But it's time to officially invoke the mercy rule. For the time being, I ... http://www.thefreefood.net/?p=397 How do I convince Barack Obama to send out this text message thing while I'm in public? One thing about living in DC is that you know that there are politically plugged-in people all over the place.  Almost everyone follows politics in this town, even if they're not directly involved in ... http://www.thefreefood.net/?p=390 [caption id="attachment_388" align="alignright" width="350" caption="Current Quick Vote results on CNN.com"][/caption]CNN.com is conducting a vote on which "candidate" has the best energy plan (If you're confused about why Paris Hilton's name is on the list, see here). On the one hand, this is more than a little disconcerting. More than anything, ... http://www.thefreefood.net/?p=387 To my neighbors who were barbecuing in my parking spot, Sorry if I was a little terse yesterday when I pulled into the alley.  I didn't mean to interrupt your barbecue session, I was just a little surprised to find my spot blocked by a charcoal grill and a group of ... http://www.thefreefood.net/?p=368 One week from today, I will tackle that leviathan of standardized, computer-adaptive, I-am-completely-unprepared-for-this-and-I-haven't-done-long-division-by-hand-since-middle-school tests, the GRE.  Thanks to my extreme procrastinatory superpowers, I have held off on doing any significant preparation for the test until two weeks before the fact.  Is this a surprising turn of events?  In an obscure ... http://www.thefreefood.net/?p=351 by colros I'm a flabby mess. It's time I do something about this.  I'm going to lose 10 pounds, goshdarnit, and I'm to do it the old-fashioned way; by blogging about it!  Well, not solely by blogging about it.  Frankly, I don't type fast enough to get much of a workout.  ... http://www.thefreefood.net/?p=348 I know this was almost two weeks ago, but the process of actually getting these things output to an HTML table is at least moderately arduous and so I didn't get the chance to post it until today. If you can't tell by the track listings, I'm a huge Ellington fan. ... http://www.thefreefood.net/?p=347 It turns out that getting a blog back into shape after a two-year hiatus requires a little bit of patchwork. I'm busily fixing broken links, updating my blogroll, updating old pages, etc. so I sincerely apologize for anything and everything that is annoyingly broken over the next week or ... http://www.thefreefood.net/?p=346 Why? Why, cute girl walking down the street by my office, must you be wearing such a cute top with Crocs? After the Great Escalator Shoe-Munching Scandal of 2007, I thought we were rid of you.  Like rogue guerilla rebels, I thought the offending shoes would be purged from the ... http://www.thefreefood.net/?p=345 The last (and only previous) time I did laser tag, I couldn't have been more than 14.  The setup was in the back room of a roller skating rink, somewhere deep in suburban New Hampshire, hundreds of miles from home.  I was there with a few relatives, my siblings, and ... http://www.thefreefood.net/?p=344