Carnival of the Vanities #5 - Page 3

Author: Laurence Simon — Published: Oct 22, 2002 at 8:28 pm 1 comment

  • Fred's Fragments From Floyd - Strange Farmer of Erehwon : Dipping deep in the past, Fred tells a little tale about a farmer sharing his memories. Perhaps, just perhaps, maybe it applies to all of this happy vanity?

  • Tim's Road To Surfdom - Guns and Government: Tim takes the position that attitudes towards government dictate attitudes towards guns and then takes a look at America and Australia. To figure out the Texas attitude, just take a look at Waco... the government *is* tyrannical.

  • Glenn Frazier - The Annihilation Game: Glenn demonstrates how two arguments can mutually annihilate each other. Me, I like the word annihilate, and it's good to be the moral cowboy.

  • Dodd Harris - Allies We Can Do Without: Dodd takes a look at the downside to open forums - wackos who post enemies lists and other inane garbage. Good core concept, but some bad barnacles latching on. I wonder if Little Green Footballs has the same problems in a way?

  • South Knox Bubba - Leveling the playing field: When it comes to trying to make the software industry competitive, we shouldn't leave it in the hands of "public servants" who are only fit to ask "Do you want fries with that?"

  • Steve from Ravenwood - Big Deal: Flarry Simon turns 100,000: Why toot my own horn when others are more than willing to blow it for me? Best line of the piece is "We also noticed that his weblog turned 100,000 only after he took his picture off the front page."

  • Steve Gigl - An Exercise in Fishbarreling: Steve fisks Woody's article in the Guardian. You know, if you fisk your woody too much, you'll go blind.

  • Kitchen Cabinet - Golf Wimps: A fine testimonial to the many injuries and accidents inherent in a brutal game of Ultimate Frisbe. I should know... Ultimate was the Sport of Baker College and I think it was a Baker-Baker matchup for the championship my Senior year. I rarely make it to the campus to play 18 holes now.

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    • 1 - Eric Olsen

      Oct 22, 2002 at 9:09 pm

      Very nice annotation ye olde Amish dude (how's that for conflating various European and post-European tongues? Hey, that sounds like fun) Biggy: get well soon. It's always more fun to jump off the wagon and then lie in wait for the driver.

      This is a great series!!

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