Monthly Archives: February 2006

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Ladies and gentlemen, I present the Mongol Rally: an 8000 miles from London, England to Ulan Bator, Mongolia. In cars with 1L engines or worse. (Although to be fair, the rules say that you have to start out in such … Continue reading →

A conversation at dinner last night had someone comment about one of my recent posts; this led to a bunch of confused looks around the table and remarks like, “wait, you blogged something?” In resposne to this — well, really … Continue reading →

March 2003: The cafeteria menus in the three House office buildings changed the name of “french fries” to “freedom fries,” in a culinary rebuke of France stemming from anger over the country’s refusal to support the U.S. position on Iraq. … Continue reading →

Dude. It’s been, like, a month since I wrote anything here. I’d like to be able to tell you that I’ve been off saving the world and stuff, or building geometrical shapes in Siberia so that aliens will know that … Continue reading →