Author: Bengt-Erik Norum

she silently climbed through the window into my bedroomcrept over and held me in a warm embracei awoke and turned to see herthe heat of her fury clawing at my eyelids the sun is an brutal mistress i guess i left the blinds open last night. celeste came and woke me up (a few times,…

this postcard is stuck to my (yes, my, we’ve worked that much out) fridge. it has greeted me every morning for a couple weeks, as i get breakfast for the kids. three comments about it: lupine (person who sent the card to my soon-to-be-ex-wife), i’m sorry i never got to know you i have a…

long time no post. by way of explanation: http://yarnhog.com/archives/2005/02/divorce_sucks_l.html. aside from the logistics, i’ve been digging into work really heavily, trying to keep my mind occupied, i guess. while posting would probably be somewhat cathartic, i’ve been hesitant to ‘open up’. too many reasons that people read blogs and this blog hasn’t been focused enough to…

i’m a nerd. appearantly, a really big nerd. according to wxplotter.com’s slightly banal and outdated questionaire, i scored in the 99th percentile. i guess the fact that i’m really bothered by the statistical claim they are making (and the lack of visibility into sample size, et al.) goes to prove the point, more than vindicate…

since i dropped mt-blacklist in, i feel much less of an urge to buy viagra. Comment spams blocked: 416 Comment spams moderated: 122 Duplicates blocked: 1 not too bad for just under 3 weeks.

playing with sharpreader (rss aggregator, recommended by aditya), i left on of the default feeds: wired news. the feed was showing a “URL error” with extended text showing a 404. “hmm.. someone hosed the xml.” hit http://www.wired.com/news_drop/netcenter/netcenter.rdf with a browser. yup, 404. up one level? 404. up another to /news_drop? 404. wow. up to the root? 404. maybe it’s…

few weeks ago, i ordered three pairs of shoes from zappos.com. i got a pair of simples, asics running shoes, and a pair of doc marten’s. ordered sunday night, received tuesday by ups. why is this a big deal? see those 15 M indications on the right? they’re hard to come by in shoes that don’t…

explaining that appearance isn’t everything, nicole told celeste she was beautiful on the inside. celeste responded “my teachers are beautiful on the outside and they are bloody on the inside. they are heart-y and brainy, too. we’re all filled with bloood.” when she says blood, she really seems to enjoy dragging the word out.. “bloooood.”…

i drove through the walgreen’s drive-through, yesterday. there was a vinyl window cling on the glass between me and the pharmacist that read “medicare”. i saw it as “mediocre”. wonder if that means anything. a couple years ago, i was riding in the back seat of someone’s car. we were returning from lunch in the…

i wondered what i could have bought for $40 million. a big party, or… buy 60 ferrari enzos (and gas) or 4790 Kia Rios hire lawyers to file 2000 patents completely finance 209 frozen yogurt franchises (and have enough to buy yogurt for your neighbors) get 50,000 botox treatments on your forehead spend 3595.5 years at…