http://blogcritics.org/blog Behind the scenes at Blogcritics.org Thu, 04 May 2006 15:54:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Okay, when some one dies, the media follows him right till the pyre till he is burnt capturing the family teary eyed and what not. It happened when Sunil Dutt died. It has happened now with the death of Pramod Mahajan. Totally annoying. Disgusting too. http://blogcritics.org/blog/2006/05/04/media-intrusion/ Any time I go on the road to a job site, I get a car from the local rental establishment. (Name left out so as not to embarrass Hertz. Oops) Usually I get the reliable but boring Ford Taurus. Or Pontiac Grand Am. Or Toyota Corolla. Or Chevy Lumina. zzzzzz….. Well, once ... http://blogcritics.org/blog/2006/05/03/they-gave-me-a-minivan/ The Boston Globe knows where the good quotes are at, particularly for a piece entitiled, “Everyone’s always been a critic — but the Net makes their voices count.” http://blogcritics.org/blog/2006/05/02/eric-olsen-blogcriticsorgs-founder-and-editor-quoted-in-boston-globe/ But the next generation is sooo gonna have its ass kicked on a daily basis. Favorite baby boy names of 2005: 1 AIDAN / AIDEN 2 CADEN / KADEN 3 CALEB / KALEB 4 ETHAN 5 BRAYDEN / BRAEDEN 6 HAYDEN 7 DYLAN 8 JADEN 9 LOGAN 10 NOAH 11 JACOB / JAKOB 12 CONNOR 13 ADDISON 14 RYAN 15 CAMERON 16 JORDAN 17 ANDREW 18 ELIJAH 19 AVERY 20 EVAN http://blogcritics.org/blog/2006/04/27/apologies-if-any-of-you-are-named-the-following/ We drove into New York yesterday because we had tickets to see Bela Fleck and the Flecktones at Irving Plaza. Jim has taken up the banjo in his middle years and really wanted to see Bela play. A combination of nasty weather (really heavy rain, made worse by an early ... http://blogcritics.org/blog/2006/04/23/bela-and-the-flecktones-and-the-rain/ A guy on Totalfark created a thread about him being stuck in a wooden-slatted chair. Basically part of his — there’s no good euphemism for this — scrotum was stuck in the planks of the chair. He was asking for advice on how to wriggle free. He got the next ... http://blogcritics.org/blog/2006/04/18/that-is-a-new-kind-of-hurt/ We got to watch two movies this weekend (we could have watched three since it was a three-day weekend, but we went out on Friday night instead). Anyway, on Thursday night we watched King Kong, which Jim had pre-ordered from Amazon (I imagine he’ll order it all over again when ... http://blogcritics.org/blog/2006/04/18/king-kong-whats-the-big-deal/ I’ve just been informed that I will be spending all summer (June-September) traveling to sites in Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia. I hope to pick up the language and use it quite often in my writing. http://blogcritics.org/blog/2006/04/14/all-yalls-re-mighty-jealous-i-reckon/ I knew when I wrote this week’s Confessions of a Fanboy column that I was asking for trouble. I knew choosing an artist far from the mainstream would have a serious impact on comments. I also knew the length of the column would chase a lot of people ... http://blogcritics.org/blog/2006/04/12/you-do-it-to-yourself-and-thats-why-it-really-hurts/ Mumbai now has has Information Kiosks. People can surf for free which is ultra-cool. Read more here. Amit Varma pointed out to a wi-fi case recently and how such things would not be an issue in the future. The future does seem exciting. http://blogcritics.org/blog/2006/04/10/free-information-kiosks/