I’ve been very busy doing both normal work and conference-related work here at ISPCON Fall 2006, but that doesn’t mean that Global Nerdy’s been lying fallow. My co-editor George has been picking up my slack with lots of good articles. Check it out!
The best comment on last night’s U.S. midterm elections comes from Jonah Goldberg of the National Review:
I for one welcome our new Democratic overlords. I’d like to remind them that as a trusted rightwing personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.
As for the best photo from last night’s elections, it’s of Reprehensible Rick Santorum and family at his concession speech. He clearly forgot to give the wife and kids the “let’s all keep a stiff upper lip” talk:
The Eight States of America, courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele. Click to see it at full size.
I’m in Santa Clara, California, attending the ISPCON Fall 2006 conference, where I’ll be moderating a panel discussion called “What the Web 2.0?” at 4:15 Pacific Time. The conference has been keeping me busy, so blogging might be light for the next couple of days, depending on what happens to my schedule.
Yesterday — Sunday, November 5th, 2006 — I turned the ripe old age of 39. We celebrated at a dinner party at Mom’s house along with my cousin Saturnino Carlos Faustino Ador Dionisio III, whose birthday falls on November 4th. Last week, Mom asked me what I’d like on the menu, and I asked for “Filipino comfort food”. I feasted on sinigang, chicken and pork adobo, pancit, vegetables and rice; this was followed by chocolate truffle and caramel latte cakes. Thanks, mom!
The night before, we had a party at our place with about 30 guests, a lot of booze, Swedish meatballs, some nice cakes. some very nice cheese and our homemade ice cream (our flavours: mint chocolate chip, vanilla, cookies and cream and mango sorbet). Lisa Goldman won this year’s “Phineas Fogg” award for the being the person who travelled the longest distance to come to the party; she’s visiting from Tel Aviv. My thanks to all those who came!
People keep asking me if I have any thoughts as I enter the last year of my thirties. I’d have to say that what I came up with at the age of 19 still holds true. Back then, my pal Henry Dziarmaga and I, having consumed too many zombies and read Space-Time and Beyond decided that in the infinite number of parallel universes, there must be one in which our lives arebeing watched as television shows. We must therefore live to keep the ratings up.
Nobody writes a marketing slogan like my buddy George. His catchphrase for our tech blog, Global Nerdy, is “You’ll come out of pity, but you’ll return out of mild interest”. Why this guy isn’t the Wizard of Madison Avenue, I’ll never know.
Some of the recent stories on Global Nerdy:
In the International Herald-Tribune, there’s an article on the social situation in Beirut, where young women outnumber young men by a ratio of five to one. The sex ratio skew is the result of the dire employment situation in Lebanon: the educated and ambitious men to seek their fortunes abroad while the women stay home (apparently the guys who stay behind are the dolts, the shiftless and the local equivalent of Ned Flanders.)
The practical upshot of all this is that when the men come home, they return to “one of the world’s most aggressive cultures of female display”. Simply put, the entire place turns into Coyote Ugly.
Thanks to Miss Fipi Lele for the photo.