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The following text is an opinion about Kirk's impending divorce. I am only taking his lead in exploiting this event for the public's consumption. In an effort to shield anyone (read as "Mo") from an inflammatory glance, I have posted the comment in transparent font. Highlight the text to read it.


After some pondering and over-analysis, I have come to the conclusion that Mo left at least two clues of her marrital doubts via unconscious / psychosomatic conditions.


(please image that I am now speaking in my bad German/Freud accent)

1) Mo LOCKED her wedding ring in the hotel safe the night before the wedding. She then FLED home (my words) only to arrive back at the hotel the next day with NO key. Very interesting.

2) On the honeymoon, Mo came down with a sickness that lasted for most of their first year of marriage. It took some sherpa-shaman-witch-doctor (again my words) to get Mo healthy again. She vas very very eel durik zca fist veer of di marreege. (bad German accent, remember)

I feel obliged to mention now that I have always liked Mo and that I hold very few negative feeling for her. I recognize that she has had her own burdens to bear and (while I do actually blame her for the divorce) I would gladly hug her if I ever see her again. (The blame thing is mostly because it's my job to take Kirk's side even when he won't let her take all the blame. It's my obligation.)


--Dylan
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2004.02.24
What an odd day yesterday was. I took a half day from work, went to downtown Boston, and signed to have the house refinanced in my name. With a bit of luck, that means I'm sitting on a pile of money. Came home, Peterman called, wanted to leave his truck over here during his two week vacation in Hawaii. I didn't know he was going to Hawaii, but sure, whatever. (Actually the driveway here is a bit of a parking lot, with Peterman's truck and Jane's(slightly delayed from returning from her Africa trip) car. So took him back to Cambridge, and then had a hell of a nice dinner at Carambola with Rob Baum, an old buddy from Event Zero days. Funny guy; just this dry sense of humor, sometimes we can get this great patter going over a meal. So came back home, decided to add one feature to JoustPong, got caught up in super difficult to diagnose bugs (My variables didn't. My constants weren't), and I was totally apoplectic. When I get like that, as frustrating as the 2600 stuff was, I figure it's also my way of raging at some other things in my life I'm not so happy with, but still.

Then to top it off, something in that mix totally threw off my personal Feels Like Forecast. At some point after going to bed but before waking up, I was totally willing to believe (hoping?) that the next day was a weekend. Very disconcerting.

Divorce is teaching me one thing though: pretty much every damn sidetable and furniture with shelves? Mo's.

Video of the Moment
Best. Commercial. Ever. Maybe I should just convince myself that I Feel Great. (Passed this around to some online buddies. Turns out it had already made the rounds, but still.) Sawers said someone described the commercial as cramming a Coen brothers film into 60 seconds and like, on amphetamines. Great music, lovely absurdist scenario, excellent acting... (actually, does anyone know if that music is from somewhere else?)

Quote of the Moment
I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it.
Music, as personified in a monologue by Danish composer Carl Nielsen.
Amendment Hopefully Not of Any Damn Moment
"Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this constitution or the constitution of any state, nor state or federal law, shall be construed to require that marital status or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon unmarried couples or groups."
When I heard it, I immediately thought that the second part rules out civil unions...apparently there's some debate on whether it does or not, what do you think?

Frickin' tyranny-of-the-majority populism...we shouldn't have let Southern Legislatures vote on their "peculiar institution" or on segregation, and this kind of civil right shouldn't be subjected to a popular vote either.

Fun Link of the Moment
Slashdot linked to The Toy Fair's Top 10 Strangest Products. Fun stuff...those "Blade Racers" look really cool.