Iron Fist

And now, for today’s round-up of stuff going on in the world:

• Bush gave his State of the Union address, which I confess I neither really read beyond the first paragraph, nor listened to. I did read a different state of the union piece, which sadly was probably more accurate.
• Corretta Scott King died today in a clinic in Rosarito, a town in Baja California. Apparently the physicians at the clinic had no idea who she was at first, since she checked in under a different name. Anyway, her body was brought back to the U.S., where one of my inside sources in San Diego said it spent the night at a funeral home across the street from her work. Her relatives are arranging to have her remains flown to Atlanta.
• The freighter that ran aground in Ensenada is still totally stuck there. Those of us in the Northwest that remember what a goddamn ordeal it was when the New Carrissa ran aground in Coos Bay would like to say, “Good luck, amigos.” (More rad photos of the ship available here.)
• Samuel Alito gets sworn into the Supreme Court. Enjoy it while it lasts, dickhead. Once I come into power I’m abolishing the Supreme Court anyway. That’s right, I’ll be making all the fucking decisions around here, not those tools. Sheesh.
• Speaking of tools, Molly Ivins calls out the Democrats for being spineless pussies. And about time, too. Grow some nads, dudes.

I’m sure there were other interesting things on the Internet today, but I can’t be bothered to look them up.

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So I changed my theme again. Already. Thanks to Kaushal Sheth for the use of this Fluidity theme. I was going to use this one in the end anyway, once I got done tweaking it, but I went ahead and switched to using it a little earlier, since the colors in my old theme were apparently headache-inducing. My bad.

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I finally got my site up and running, and while I’ll still be making changes to it regularly, it’s mostly where I want it to be.

A few things about the new version of my site, in no particular order:

• The theme has changed, obviously. Props out to my main Moscow homeboy Klaus Gena for loaning me the use of his Loser theme for the previous incarnation of my site. While it was a worthy theme, and suited my needs at the time, I’ve moved on to this current Head theme by Priss, which has a little more functionality. You should totally check out Klaus’ site, especially if you can read Dutch and want to know what’s going on in Mother Russia’s capital.
• Commenting is now enabled, for anyone who wants to let me know what they think about a particular post. You need to register and sign in before you can leave comments. Don’t worry, I’m not connected to some massive Homeland Security database or anything, and I’m not going to sell your information. I’m way too lazy to set anything like that up. Your info just goes into the MySQL database I have setup to run my site.
• If you have a personal website that you want me to link to, let me know and I’ll add you.
• I’m using the Gravatar plugin, so if you want your little avatar photo to follow you around everywhere you post on my site, register for free at Gravatar.com. And then we’ll iron out any bugs, since I’m still figuring out how that’s supposed to work.
• I’ve got RSS 2.0 and Atom feeds for my site. If you’re using Firefox (and really, you should be using Firefox), you can Live Bookmark my site. Also available for Firefox are the Sage and Wizz RSS extensions to help you manage all your feeds. Any aggregator will work really; in fact, you can even plug my feed URL into your Google homepage and My Yahoo!, or your Gmail webclips, and get your daily dose of awesome delivered to you that way. Of course, if you just want to set my ass-kicking site as your homepage, obviously I have no problem with that. In fact, I salute your good taste!

I think that’s all the news I can think of for now. There will be more changes made as I gain familiarity with hacking WordPress, and giving my site a more custom feel. In the meantime, look around and enjoy.

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I’d like to give a little love to the East Coast homies and wish Brandy a very happy birthday today. I was going to put up a picture of her as well, but when looking through my photo album I realized I didn’t actually have any photos of Brandy that didn’t also feature me looking like a transvestite. Anyway, we’re still thinking about you guys here in P-town. Happy birthday, Brandy.

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Today my sister Lua (the one that conned me into jogging with her) turns 24. No doubt she spent the day going to the beach in Grenada, where she’s currently pursuing a Master’s in Public Health at St. George’s University.

Through a rare combination of recessive genes, she turned out better looking than everyone else in my family by an order of magnitude. For comparison, here’s a rather unflattering photo of me picking my teeth with my toes last summer.

Anyway, happy birthday, sis.

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