[NON BLOG] Miscellanea
May. 11th, 2004 11:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldAs of this posting, since the 19th of April, at about 11 o'clock, I've received 2255 hits on the livejournal's main page and on the other pages that my counter tracks, excluding views on people's livejournal friends pages. This is nice. I think I could just possibly make it as a writer.
Daniel Pipes has written an article entitled "Muslim Europe". Yes, it's about that Muslim Europe.
Pipes being Pipes, he's gotten coverage from points as far afield as Front Page Magazine and the Jerusalem Post. I've been active at the former site's comments page criticizing his sloppy use (and in some cases, total ignorance) of the data at hand, to the predictable responses. Sigh.
I'll be picking up my bike from the shop tomorrow. I'd left it outside for part of the winter, and I felt it my responsibility as someone concerned with my safety to get it checked out. I do want to bike again, and not only because it will give me added mobility; Kingston in spring is beautiful, I want to go around taking pictures, and a trip to Wolfe Island might or might not be out of the question. Biking is fun.
The weather in Kingston is beautiful. Yesterday afternoon, though, I was surprised by the amount of mist coming off of Lake Ontario, so dense just after noontime as to obscure the sight of Wolfe Island. I wonder if that's regular for this time of year?
This article in The Globe and Mail is interesting, as is this one. I'm not yet sure how they will affect me. Paternity, though, is a question that concerns me.
Oh. Last night, I ate some Korean food--bulgogi rice--with a friend and then watched Van Helsing with her. It was, as expected and reviewed, a standard mishmash of tropes done poorly in the context of a completely ahistorical Transylvania (beyond the fact of monsters). It was entertaining though, if only because of Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale and their appearances.
More substantive material later. I promise.
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Daniel Pipes has written an article entitled "Muslim Europe". Yes, it's about that Muslim Europe.
Pipes being Pipes, he's gotten coverage from points as far afield as Front Page Magazine and the Jerusalem Post. I've been active at the former site's comments page criticizing his sloppy use (and in some cases, total ignorance) of the data at hand, to the predictable responses. Sigh.
* * *
I'll be picking up my bike from the shop tomorrow. I'd left it outside for part of the winter, and I felt it my responsibility as someone concerned with my safety to get it checked out. I do want to bike again, and not only because it will give me added mobility; Kingston in spring is beautiful, I want to go around taking pictures, and a trip to Wolfe Island might or might not be out of the question. Biking is fun.
* * *
The weather in Kingston is beautiful. Yesterday afternoon, though, I was surprised by the amount of mist coming off of Lake Ontario, so dense just after noontime as to obscure the sight of Wolfe Island. I wonder if that's regular for this time of year?
* * *
This article in The Globe and Mail is interesting, as is this one. I'm not yet sure how they will affect me. Paternity, though, is a question that concerns me.
* * *
Oh. Last night, I ate some Korean food--bulgogi rice--with a friend and then watched Van Helsing with her. It was, as expected and reviewed, a standard mishmash of tropes done poorly in the context of a completely ahistorical Transylvania (beyond the fact of monsters). It was entertaining though, if only because of Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale and their appearances.
* * *
More substantive material later. I promise.
