Archive for April, 2004
Monday, April 19th, 2004
New domain purchase
Last week I bought twiffy.com after the firestorm of comments about names for private parts that took place over at the hilarious dooce.com. A little bit of background. “Twiffy” was a pet name that my old roomate Tom’s girlfriend had for her privates. I thought it was funny enough to intigrate it into my lexicon, [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Matt's Boring Life by mattcomroe
Friday, April 16th, 2004
Note to self #1372
Just because it’s going to be 70 degrees for a daytime high does not mean that when it’s still 40 in the morning when you ride in that you shouldn’t wear gloves.
No Comments » - Posted in Bike,Matt's Boring Life by mattcomroe
Wednesday, April 14th, 2004
Marines Investigate Photo Posted on Web
NEW ORLEANS – The Marines are investigating a photograph circulating on the Internet that depicts a soldier with two Iraqi boys and a sign, in English, proclaiming the soldier had killed one boy’s father and impregnated the boy’s sister. A Washington, D.C.-based Muslim civil rights group complained about the photo and urged the Marines to [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Current Events by mattcomroe
Monday, April 12th, 2004
Shuffle up and deal!
The near-constant flood of poker shows on The Travel Channel has finally broken me down, and I started lobbying this weekend for a friendly weekly game with the climbing peeps. Lots of emails flying around today about which day of the week would be best (so far Monday and Wednesday are the main candidates), as [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Friends,Poker by mattcomroe
Saturday, April 10th, 2004
Jeff Skilling tries for “crazy mob boss” defense
It didn’t work then, and it’s not going to work now. Nice try, tho.
No Comments » - Posted in Current Events by mattcomroe
Friday, April 9th, 2004
Day off
I have Good Friday off today, and so does David, so we’re going to pretend we’re cute little old Jewish men and meet in Squirrel Hill and have breakfast and play Scrabble. Should be a lovely day for that sort of tomfoolery. Update: It was a tie game, which I’ve never had happen before, but [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Friends by mattcomroe
Saturday, April 3rd, 2004
Note to self
If your friends tell you they’ll meet you at Dee’s for a drink, make sure you find out if they mean “Dee’s 6-Pack and Dogz” in Regent Square, or Dee’s Cafe on the South Side before you drive all the way down to the South Side and find out that it’s the wrong one.
