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Green Festival

2009-05-18T15:34:00.001-05:00

Sunday we attended the Chicago Green Festival at Navy Pier with tickets my wife won by being, like, sooo good. Pleasingly, the first thing we saw on entering was some installation involving bikes and recycling and people in quasi-futuristic uniform undyed probably-hemp get-ups.

Unfortunately the second thing I saw was a display in which Best Buy and Black & Decker present themselves as Super Green Dudes because I guess Black & Decker has a few solar-powered things that they sell and Best Buy recycles piles of last week's now-obsolete consumer goods (ie, ship it off to China or some third-world punching bag where the toxic chemicals and heavy metals in the boards seep into the groundwater)

Fortunately the horrific soon gave way to the absurd at the sight of another green product: Organic aerosol cans of pancake batter.

But, weirdo faux-green markety nonsense aside, Dexter got to hang out with some arthropods.

and at the largely-vegan wholly-smug cafeteria area, one stand was giving out free promotional fake mustaches. Dexter wasn't content with just one.

Serious bikeness

2009-05-14T18:15:00.001-05:00

Aroo

2009-05-14T08:42:00.001-05:00

Drinky Valentine's Day

2009-02-14T22:12:00.001-06:00

A birthday post

2009-02-12T14:16:00.003-06:00

While I'm at it,

Clich Watch

2009-02-11T10:03:00.001-06:00

"Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner" ignores the fact that a wolf majority can't survive.

Ugh work work work!

2009-02-10T20:12:00.002-06:00

I'm on a deadline and these words ain't going to search themselves!

Meeting people for dinner immediately after a long bike ride is an occasion to be Mindful. My wife was a bit startled to notice I'd destroyed my beer and finished my burrito and was finishing up the rice on the side before she'd gotten through half of the part of her dinner she wasn't setting aside to take home. Om to the nom.

G1 Phone Cradle

2009-01-30T14:02:00.001-06:00

I will sell it to you for thirty five dollars, it is a "wireless accessory"

Sad wizard became a ghost

2009-01-29T20:50:00.001-06:00

Poor wizard ghost

Mine too.

2009-01-27T20:12:00.001-06:00

You know what's nice to see?

Joy.

A DREAM

2009-01-27T13:59:00.000-06:00

Last night I had this crazy dream that since Republicans were so down on the stimulus bill even with only a small amount of it being for infrastructure spending and the biggest chunk being tax cuts, Obama said "welp we tried working with you, but if this is how you're gonna be then..." and he unzipped his briefcase and FLUMP the new stimulus bill flopped out that was extremely correct, and Democrats passed it because fuck it. A watered-down stimulus package that's mostly crap that doesn't work put there to appease Republicans won't actually be very effective, and it'll be remembered as Obama's Economic Plan and Democrats'll get blamed for it not working, so why screw around with trying to please people who are actually for real believers in an ideology that's in direct conflict with what you were elected to do?

Roll bones

2009-01-26T23:25:00.001-06:00

Ride bikes

2009-01-26T23:17:00.001-06:00

Read books

2009-01-26T23:13:00.000-06:00