Monthly Archives: February 2006

How To Care For Your Introvert

Are you an extro­vert? Then chances are “some­one you know, respect, and inter­act with every day is an intro­vert, and you are prob­a­bly dri­ving this per­son nuts.” That comes from a won­der­ful arti­cle writ­ten by Jonathan Rauch called Car­ing For Your Intro­vert. He has an inter­view in this month’s The Atlantic where he dis­cusses his …

February 22, 2006 – 4:04 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

Word Cloud

This is pretty darn cool. I need a lit­tle more con­tent to really make it inter­est­ing but clearly I’m an alco­holic web-designer with too much debt. Or some­thing like that. Make your own at SnapShirts.com

February 22, 2006 – 2:36 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Internet/Technology | Comments (0)

Bipartisan Chest Thumping and Blogosphere Bloviating

There”s been a lot of chest thump­ing by our vaunted lead­ers lately over the United Arab Emi­rates being cho­sen to “take over” (scare quotes included because that term is wildly inac­cu­rate regard­ing the actual facts at hand) sev­eral ports on the East­ern seaboard. Mem­bers of both par­ties are vow­ing to over­ride the pres­i­den­tial deci­sion in …

February 22, 2006 – 9:35 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in National Issues | Comments Off

Patriot Guard Riders kick Rev. Phelps ass in public

Ok I made up the title but it sounds nice. Actu­ally, while Phelps cer­tainly needs a pub­lic ass-kicking fol­lowed by an even more pub­lic butt-fucking, those things are unlikely to hap­pen any time soon. How­ever, the Patriot Guard Rid­ers are a group of bik­ers who ride around the coun­try and shield familes at solid­ers’ funer­als …

February 22, 2006 – 6:50 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)

Big Brother Gets Voted In

The res­i­dents of a Lake High­lands sub­di­vi­sion have voted to install cam­eras to “look for sus­pi­cious peo­ple, vehi­cles lack­ing home­owner stick­ers, peo­ple walk­ing through alleys and obvi­ous crim­i­nal activ­ity” because of the high level of crim­i­nal activ­ity in their com­mu­nity. Who knew that walk­ing through an alley was such a dan­ger­ous activ­ity? As far as …

February 20, 2006 – 7:31 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Dallas Affairs | Comments (0)

Curling and Beer

There’s prob­a­bly only one Olympic sport where you can read an arti­cle that refers to the beer tent and that sport is curl­ing as the US Men’s team moves into the medal round with a win over Great Britain along with a loss by Italy. Though I have my doubts about call­ing an activ­ity a …

February 19, 2006 – 1:42 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Sports | Comments (7)

Thanks Jeff!

Wow, Jeff over at Alphecca updated his blogroll and sent a ton of traf­fic my way. Wel­come to all the read­ers from there and I hope you poke around over here and find some things you like.

February 19, 2006 – 1:36 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (6)

Bird Blogging Weekend

It’s a bird-blogging week­end with some pic­tures of var­i­ous birds that showed up in the cold this morn­ing. They’re pretty skit­ter­ish about hav­ing a guy in a red fleece jacket sit­ting under their feeder but I man­aged to get a cou­ple of decent shots of a Tufted Tit­mouse and a Car­olina Chick­adee. Here’s the chick­adee …

February 19, 2006 – 12:49 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Pictures | Comments Off

Backyard Bird Feeder

We have one of these guys vis­it­ing our back­yard bird feeder on a reg­u­lar basis now and he’s fun to watch. He scat­ters all the spar­rows when he comes in, loop­ing in a lazy kind of flight. He tends to get one seed as far as I can tell and then fly back to the …

February 17, 2006 – 8:12 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

Fulfillment

In my ongo­ing search for mean­ing and ful­fill­ment in my life, I”ve added a site meter to my blog in a vain attempt to gain self-worth through my ador­ing fans. I”m run­ning a con­test to give $10,000 to the first vis­i­tor I see on the site meter. Oops. When I checked to make sure the site …

February 17, 2006 – 7:42 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off