jamie lawrence-howard • highly absorbent redundant and superfluous verbiage • clogging tubes since 9.1.98
if you have a mac, with the tiger os, then you have dashboard which has all of the cool widgets with which you can access info.
and now, you can keep up to date with this site by downloading the widget for queerspace.com.
here’s the faq for the widget:
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it’s the 4th anniversary of 9/11. and i have some questions.
for dick cheney: during the last election, you said that if we elected john kerry, we’d all die. care to stand in new orleans and revise your comments?
for george bush: why should we believe that your administration’s response to hurricane katrina is anything other than an indicator of your typical response to a terror attack?
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i’ve decided to vote for kris glen.
who is she? hell if i know.
but she’s proven to me that she has more sense, or at least is backed by people with more sense, than anyone else i’ve seen running for any office in new york this year.
i should explain.
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i’m hoping it’s not true, or hoping for a reprieve, or hoping that someone gets some sense, or something.
mchale’s, a perfectly wonderful open secret of a bar, is set to close soon, according to the new york times, which by the way will make you pay $3.95 to read about it.
but trust me. it says that the building was sold and the new owners are kicking them out. which really ticks me off.
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i’m happy, i think.
i spent time during the last few days redoing the code for my site, to get rid of the frame-based navigation that was cutting edge in 1998, but now not so much. i especially thought that search engines would be able to find my site better, because with the new system of div tags, each page’s address shows in the address bar. before, it always just said “queerspace.com” no matter what page you were on.
well, i got my wish. if you google my name, i’m now the eighth most popular “jamie howard”, right behind the wrestler and the guy at christiangays.com.
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i know i’m getting clip-happy. but there are finally things to watch in the media that have actual impact and forethought and usefulness.
another must-see. he perfectly sums up exactly what is wrong on the gulf coast of america in the aftermath of katrina.
my favorite quote?
[the government] has just proved that it cannot save its citizens from a biological weapon called standing water.
there’s more better. much more better.
from an ap wire story at yahoo.com. capital letters removed.
barbara bush, who accompanied the former presidents on a tour of the astrodome complex monday, said the relocation to houston is “working very well” for some of the poor people forced out of new orleans.
“what i’m hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in texas. everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality,” she said during a radio interview with the american public media program marketplace. “and so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.”
i’m no fan of fox news, but this clip has to be seen to be believed. it’s at the site crooksandliars.com, and it shows shepard smith and geraldo rivera getting in the face of a spin-obsessed sean hannity. it takes some time to download (i think a lot of people must be watching it) but trust me, it’s worth the wait.
fox news clip at crooksandliars.com
what’s it going to take to get these people fed? it’s been nearly a week, and people continue to die.
warning: this is going to be an irrational freeform rant.
is it in the genetic makeup of the bush family to have an inability to respond to a natural disaster?
you’d think that, after his great leadership in the days immediately after 9/11, he’d have a clue. but the federal government response, and bush’s personal response, was pathetic from the start.
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first, a quick note: i’m glad i don’t live in new orleans, and i’m also glad i’ve been there, because it surely and sadly will never be the same. definitely keep those people in your thoughts–i am. the hurricane was so much worse there than the ones i went through in florida, mainly because i think there are far more impoverished people in the area to start with, and they didn’t have a means of escape.
now, some business. queerspace.com is under construction.
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instead of enabling unlimited cell phone service in the new york subway, why don’t we enable 911 service only? that way, anyone who needs to use their cell phone for an emergency will be able to, but i will be spared the constant yammering.
the subway is the last cell-phone free area in new york, and i’d like to keep it that way. i enjoy the relative tranquility.
i realize that this isn’t financially feasible, because the only way that you’ll get cell phone service is if the installing companies can make a bundle off of it somehow.
but i can dream, can’t i?
sometimes you just gotta have it.
most days i eat a very healthy diet. after all, i was a vegetarian for over ten years, and was even completely vegan for about three of those, and even though i’ve given up on that, i still don’t eat much meat. the majority of our meals at home are vegetarian, and when we do have meat, it’s most likely kirk and i splitting a can of tuna atop a salad, or a bit of salt pork in the green beans, and stuff like that.
today, though, i got the craving.
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wow.
usually a baseball team that scores 14 runs in a game will lose the next game. usually by a score of 2-1 or something like that.
but the mets have done it two nights in a row. on the road. they said on tv (i’m going to get the exact figures wrong) that no team has won two consecutive games on the road by more than 13 runs since 1930-something or something like that.
wow.
i think i gotta believe.
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number something in a series of some as yet determined number, where i talk briefly about a lot of things, rather than in-depth about one thing. like i never digress in any of my blogs.
anyway, here they are.
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as in moronic tv.
well, not completely moronic. but pretty much. a lot of what is on tv in the summer isn’t very watch-worthy. a lot of baseball games. that’s good. but i have a new favorite show, which will come as no shock to anyone who has read a few of my blogs, as i have new favorite shows quite frequently. but wonder showzen is special.
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i converted my greymatter blog to php.
i have no idea what that means, or what effect it has, or how things are different.
or why i even did it in the first place, except that i had a few spare moments at work and gave it a try. but i did, and now my site is php, instead of html, and everything works just as it did before.
so i can now say my site is more better, except that i will be using poor grammar if i do so.
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we had a great time at coney island on friday. totonno’s pizza was excellent, the cyclone roller coaster was awesome, the baseball game was fun and the cyclones won, we split a yummy grilled burger during the game and a pistachio soft serve ice cream afterwards.
everything was perfect.
except for getting ripped off at the pick-up-a-duck stand.
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i have friday off. whoo hooo. so a nice long three-day weekend.
that’s the one thing i love about working in new york–summer fridays. for those who aren’t in the loop about this, and i wasn’t in the loop until i got here, lots of new york city businesses give their employees paid half-day early dismissal times on fridays between memorial day and labor day. my particular workgroup chooses to take the entire day every other friday, so there are always people in the office.
does any other area of the country do this? is it a big-city thing? not sure. all i know is, i love it and it’s one more reason to stay in new york, because i never had bonus paid vacation time anywhere else ever.
i think for the big shot types, it gives them a head start to the hamptons or whatever. as i have not yet closed on my southhampton mansion, i shall remain in the city on weekends.
and this weekend?
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i’ve used quicken for windows to do my home finances for years. many more than ten years. and i’ve paid my bills online for more years than that. i used check free when it was a standalone product and i uploaded my payments on a 2400 baud modem. and my first versions of quicken came on floppy disks.
so i know whereof i speak when i say that intuit, the distributor of quicken for mac can. kiss. my. annoyed. ass.
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well, not literally, like with a butcher knife or a lawnmower.
but did i feed my cat to death? i can’t get the idea out of my head, so you be the judge. it’s been a while since i had to put my cat to sleep, and i can just now talk about it all publicly. it was definitely really upsetting.
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