This week, Acer and ASUS announced they’d be halting production of their netbook lines…which means, because they were the last major producers of netbooks, that the form factor is all but dead. Ironically, I expensed a cheap netbook the day before yesterday — a Gateway, which actually means an Acer, because Acer owns Gateway now. […]
Author Archives: admin
KNPR appearance — New Year’s resolutions
I was on KNPR, the local public radio station, yesterday, talking about New Year’s resolutions, along with pastor Robert Fowler and UNLV anthropology professor Alyssa Crittenden. Check it out!
Of all the creatures on Earth…
…humans are the only ones with the capacity to lie; or rather, to invent things which are not true. This is a fundamental property of consciousness.
Wishful Beginnings.
I started Zenarchery a very, very long time ago: the first version of the site went up, I believe, in 1998. Back then I had no idea about “weblog” software, so I wrote my own, which allowed me to make very simple HTML posts. Over the last few years, the site has stagnated, as I’ve […]
How to pack
Tomorrow, I’m flying to Chicago to pick up a van that Rosalie’s aunt is very kindly giving us (we haven’t had a car in a while). I’ll be driving the van back, which is a 2100 mile drive, at least on the route I’m taking, which will take me from freezing, possibly snowing Chicago, all […]
A letter to my neighbor
Irene, 1) I did to my knowledge not receive the letter you mention. Perhaps you shoved it under my door and the scampering neighborhood hooligans took it, or the 80 year old Swiss woman you insist is spraying poison all over the yard and running a methamphetamine laboratory in her parlor. Or the spies you […]
Dick move.
Sometime early Monday morning, my old friend and collaborator Tommy Marth committed suicide. What a prick. And Tommy was a prick, make no mistake. It was his chief public characteristic. He was cynical, sarcastic, caustic as industrial solvent. The day he met my wife Rosalie, he walked up and said “So this is the stupid bitch […]
Common People
We’re rednecks, rednecks We don’t know our ass from a hole in the ground Rednecks, rednecks, We keepin’ the niggers down. –Randy Newman, “Rednecks” What do you have when you come from a poor-white background? And from a place where Reconstruction didn’t end until the 1950s. If you came from people often referred to on campuses as […]
A review of Lana Del Rey’s Born To Die, in the guise of an open letter to music bloggers
Dear hip music bloggers, Fuck off and die. I can just see all of you, sitting in your little rooms in the weeks since Lana Del Rey’s disastrous appearance on Saturday Night Live, coming up with the clever little bon mots you planned to sprinkle all throughout your review of Del Rey’s debut album, Born […]
Recipe: Mac ‘n Cheese Stovetop Soufflé
Ingredients 1 package macaroni and cheese (brand is irrelevant) 1/4 cup butter 1/2 cup milk 1/2 cup grated Cheddar cheese 1/4 cup grated Romano cheese (the kind in the can works too) 1 cup frozen cut spinach 1 cup frozen peas 2 eggs Directions Cook macaroni in medium saucepan. (If you don’t know how to […]