2004 in the Rear-View Mirror
This week, The Stranger listed out its regrets for 2004. Among them was this:
The story of Reload began with the Frenchman, Frenchgilles, who used the term 'Reload' (a software term) to describe the act of refilling a pint glass from the pitcher during our regular Friday happy hour at the Mustard Seed Too in Bellevue.
The first version of 'Reload' was an internal email alias at our work where we'd send funny links and news articles to each other. In the spring, though, we took the link down due to fears that we might actually get fired for the crap we were sending around. At the same time, I had just begun reading blogs like Altercation and Sadly No! and realized that it was an even better format for our online discussions and another place for me to write the stuff that I usually wrote on Slate along with Greenwave (who is "covoj" on Slate). After about two weeks of incredibly futile attempts at building a blog site from scratch, Jose pointed me to Blogger and Blog Reload was born.
The Concrete Dildo was also an invention of the Frenchman, who has supposedly used that terminology in meetings at work as a way to accurately describe the pain of implementing a certain design. We're pretty sure he's full of shit, but the term itself made us laugh, and as we've watched politicians and pundits do and say things that we know could cause us serious pain, we've found a new use for it.
The other members of Reload have been busy these days, on and off the blog (mostly off).
Boss Tweed has become the blogosphere's foremost expert on bees.
Jose just got married back home in Puerto Rico.
Unofficial member The Texan is turning Japanese.
Greenwave started a new job and will hopefully blog again when the election stops pissing him off.
Mourad is back in his native Egypt for the first time since the events of September 11, which altered the ability of many brown people to easily get in and out of this fine country.
Bobby is doing some hardcore home repair projects but is talking about reviving the weekly Happy Hour. Nice.
Kabulrocks just moved into a nice new house, and I'm looking forward to the first official gathering in the "Pelican room"
Marc and another unofficial member, the Italian, are expecting to become fathers for the first time in the next two months. It was nice knowing them.
Frenchgilles is still perpetuating every bad stereotype of French people we know.
Kermit is swamped with work right now, but I hope he returns to write some stuff this good again.
And theher still puts up with my ass, for reasons unknown.
In addition to the Reload Crew in Seattle, I also invited a couple of old friends from the East Coast, Edward, Catfish Johnny Redbeard, and Subhero, as well, but they have their own projects. Edward and Catfish have started up a blog for New York Knicks fans and continue in their efforts to keep Patrick "Foothands" Ewing out of the Hall of Fame. Subhero is the webmaster of Blird and I'm still holding my breath.
So, have a Happy New Year, and I hope that this site remains a place with some interesting perspectives, a few laughs, some good discussion, and if time and motivation permit, possibly some cool extra features from some ideas that have been rattling around in my head. For now, here are some of the greatest hits of 2004.
The Wizard of Oz post.
Boss Tweed gets his Shakespeare on
Devo was Right
Reload's Theocracy Mentorship Program
The Live Story tenth anniversary
Greenwave finds legendary hypocrisy
On November 4, Stranger news reporters Erica C. Barnett and Sandeep Kaushik wrote a story about Seattle-area political bloggers that was pretty much the lamest article either reporter has ever written.I knew that when I started this blog that there would be no limits to my own lameness, but never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that I'd be able to inspire lameness in others. How did this happen? Well, I still don't know. But with the new year beginning, I think it's time for me to give an explainer on what the hell this site is all about, so that we can perhaps curtail its ability to spread any more lameness.
The story of Reload began with the Frenchman, Frenchgilles, who used the term 'Reload' (a software term) to describe the act of refilling a pint glass from the pitcher during our regular Friday happy hour at the Mustard Seed Too in Bellevue.
The first version of 'Reload' was an internal email alias at our work where we'd send funny links and news articles to each other. In the spring, though, we took the link down due to fears that we might actually get fired for the crap we were sending around. At the same time, I had just begun reading blogs like Altercation and Sadly No! and realized that it was an even better format for our online discussions and another place for me to write the stuff that I usually wrote on Slate along with Greenwave (who is "covoj" on Slate). After about two weeks of incredibly futile attempts at building a blog site from scratch, Jose pointed me to Blogger and Blog Reload was born.
The Concrete Dildo was also an invention of the Frenchman, who has supposedly used that terminology in meetings at work as a way to accurately describe the pain of implementing a certain design. We're pretty sure he's full of shit, but the term itself made us laugh, and as we've watched politicians and pundits do and say things that we know could cause us serious pain, we've found a new use for it.
The other members of Reload have been busy these days, on and off the blog (mostly off).
Boss Tweed has become the blogosphere's foremost expert on bees.
Jose just got married back home in Puerto Rico.
Unofficial member The Texan is turning Japanese.
Greenwave started a new job and will hopefully blog again when the election stops pissing him off.
Mourad is back in his native Egypt for the first time since the events of September 11, which altered the ability of many brown people to easily get in and out of this fine country.
Bobby is doing some hardcore home repair projects but is talking about reviving the weekly Happy Hour. Nice.
Kabulrocks just moved into a nice new house, and I'm looking forward to the first official gathering in the "Pelican room"
Marc and another unofficial member, the Italian, are expecting to become fathers for the first time in the next two months. It was nice knowing them.
Frenchgilles is still perpetuating every bad stereotype of French people we know.
Kermit is swamped with work right now, but I hope he returns to write some stuff this good again.
And theher still puts up with my ass, for reasons unknown.
In addition to the Reload Crew in Seattle, I also invited a couple of old friends from the East Coast, Edward, Catfish Johnny Redbeard, and Subhero, as well, but they have their own projects. Edward and Catfish have started up a blog for New York Knicks fans and continue in their efforts to keep Patrick "Foothands" Ewing out of the Hall of Fame. Subhero is the webmaster of Blird and I'm still holding my breath.
So, have a Happy New Year, and I hope that this site remains a place with some interesting perspectives, a few laughs, some good discussion, and if time and motivation permit, possibly some cool extra features from some ideas that have been rattling around in my head. For now, here are some of the greatest hits of 2004.
The Wizard of Oz post.
Boss Tweed gets his Shakespeare on
Devo was Right
Reload's Theocracy Mentorship Program
The Live Story tenth anniversary
Greenwave finds legendary hypocrisy
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