A reader writes: "You should write something about wrapping Christmas presents. I was wrapping this morning and it seems like a good idea for a topic."I wrote something about this last year when I wrapped presents—on Christmas Eve. That's the kind of planning ahead and long-term preparation I put into the event.Here's the column from December 24, 2007:So I'm wrapping presents. Well, I was wrappi
On 15th December, UNKLE will release ‘End Titles… Redux’ as a limited collector’s edition of 3000 CDs that will only be available via UNKLE.com. This will also be available digitally from the 14th of December. The release will feature seven re-interpreted tracks from the album ‘End Titles… Stories for Film.’ two new tracks and ‘Trouble [...]
Re-running a post from September, 2007.If I Only Had a BrainI could while away the hoursConferrin' with the flowersConsultin' with the rainAnd my head, I'd be scratchin'While my thoughts were busy hatchin'If I only had a brain.I'd unravel ev'ry riddleFor any individ'leIn trouble or in painWith the thoughts I'd be thinkin'I could be another Lincoln,If I only had a brain.Oh, I could tell you whyThe
In my attempt to be excruciatingly clear in my post yesterday, I seem to have confused just about everyone. So let me try this again, with just the basic info.I've launched a new blog directory called Blogerella. Unlike Humor-Blogs.com, Blogerella is for all kinds of blogs.If you're already a member of Humor-Blogs.com, you don't have to sign up again. Your HB login will work with Blogerella.If
As an avid backpacker and backcountry enthusiast from the caffeine soaked streets of the northwest, I have searched high and low for an easy way to make great coffee away from the conveniences of home.
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I wouldn't want to seem lazy so soon after my return to writing -- I figure the honeymoon period on that is at least a week... maybe five days... three? Can I take tomorrow off? We'll see.
In the meantime, with Thanksgiving looming a mere seven days away, I thought new and returning readers alike might find something of value in a cautionary tale I penned last November:
The Turkey Timeline: A Th
In an earlier post (How to Organize a Warehouse), I told you, Gentle Reader, that we were building a rack on which we could store the many tubs containing the various products we have for sale through our web store, Sheltie Rescue Mall. In that post, I promised to take some pictures of the rack [...]
Some pictures from Halloween…all completely unedited so my apologies for the crappy dark shots. No time to Photoshop yet.
Carving pumpkins at our neighbours’ house earlier in the week. He refused to touch the guts, but did enjoy eating the raw seeds and meat with his buddy.
Spidey with his creation and his decorated Halloween [...]
One of the things I find so strange about the Saga of Barack Obama is how many conservatives and libertarians, who should know better, are on the bandwagon.As monumentally imperfect as he is, John McCain is much closer to the political views of guys like Andrew Sullivan, Doug Kmiec, Ken Adelman , Dennis Hopper, Chris Buckley and all the Obamatarians which Reason Magazine has identified.Even mod
Paris Hilton at Heathrow airport in London (10/30)
+ Kim Kardashian dresses up as big-assed Wonder Woman [Drunken Stepfather]
+ Keeley Hazell’s Topless Witch is the Best. Halloween Costume. Ever. [Egotastic!]
+ Lauren Conrad’s boobs don’t look like that [Just Jared]
+ Kate Moss is see through (semi-NSFW) [TaxiDriverMovie]
+ You know Halloween has to be Shauna Sand’s favorit
I recently posted about the future of business cards. My bias is towards simplicity, maybe just an URL is enough. Maybe my bias is too forward thinking, lots of people still use physical business cards. They collect, sort and file them in all kinds of ways. Getting them into a database can be a challenge [...]
On October 21 in Tehran, the Gas Exporting Countries’ Forum (GECF) agreed to form a cartel. Russia, Iran, and Qatar announced that they intend to form a yet-unnamed group to “coordinate gas policy.” The United States should create a global coalition of energy consumers to oppose oil and gas cartels and to bring market principles to the natural gas industry....(read more)
Tedde is giving the traditional teddy bear a makeover with updated designs, mischievous personalities and even a new spelling. Tedde believes that a teddy bear should not look and feel like it just fell off an assembly line and its mission is to rid the world of factory-made bear clones.
The Tedde collection includes Teddes, Tedde [...]
Since it is Monday, I decided to increase the number of minimum commits by one.All in all, I finished a game feature which allow players to do instantaneous drop. Otherwise, it is mostly me mucking around cleaning up the rather ugly codebase. So nothing concrete except better code organization and a new gameplay feature.I also got a solution that's worked out for the game logic. Let see if my othe
Instead of banging my head against the game logic diffculty of RubyTet, I decided to work on other game features instead. So I worked on limiting the movement of the shape by figuring how much to offset. Then I went to work on player activated complete drop, which meant that the player has decided to just drop the shape.In course of implementing this feature, I discovered that I must again make ne
So I managed to make 12 commits to the RubyTet project but I never managed to get much further along with the game logic. The new method I used to check if it is necessary to drop is broken. So tomorrow, I'll have to spend good quality time doing sketching on papers and figuring out the mathematics.Along the way, I did a few preparation on changing the speed of the game and did some bugfixes that
I finally finished cleaning a class of RubyTet. Now that its ugliness in that area got erased, I can focus on figuring out the game logics. I havn't made much progress in that department. My assumption are wrong in the first place and I'll have to go back to drawing board and figure out what information to return.Libregamewiki, on the other hand recevie generous contribution from the author of SDL
Wondering where I’ve been the last two weeks? Unpacking my maternity clothes. I’m kidding, but seriously, I forgot how many ugly maternity clothes I have.
I must have been deluded by all the progesterone scurrying through my body of late, but early on in this pregnancy I actually got excited to see my maternity clothes again. I remember [...]
Wondering where I’ve been the last two weeks? Unpacking my maternity clothes. I’m kidding, but seriously, I forgot how many ugly maternity clothes I have.
I must have been deluded by all the progesterone scurrying through my body of late, but early on in this pregnancy I actually got excited to see my maternity clothes again. I remember [...]
Today, not much has been focused on dealing with game logic code and more about cleaning up the codebase a little bit so it is a little bit more organized and feel "cleaner". I managed to achevie my minimum goal of 12 commits plus more.Tomorrow, I will have luxury of working out the game logics code for RubyTet. Currently, it knows when to stop moving the shape and start a new shape to drop, but i
You may remember I did a post on the BS with regard to the argument that tap water is somehow less safe than bottled water. Well here is a story I read on Fox News...you be the judge.
Here is the link and the story is below in it's entirety:
--From FOX News---
Study: Bottled Water as Polluted as Tap Water
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Tests on leading brands of bottled water turned up a variety o
This weekend, I have unexpectedly failed to reach my goal. It all started with my inability to overcome obstacle in programming RubyTet. The rest, I wasted time and refuse to do them at all. In any case, it was a disappointment.Today, I have come back to coding RubyTet again, along at a reduced level of productivity, because of my inability to solve difficult bugs. Nonetheless, this day will marks
Someone's going to die on Heroes. A real Hero. A real death. And it is happening real soon. But before we get to all that goodness (yes, I think many of you will think it's a straight-up blessing from heaven!), let's dig into the craziness that went down tonight, shall we? Click in for inside dish on what you missed and what's ahead... Oh, and did I mention a fan-favorite villain is getting killed
Ashes of Time Redux WallpaperA Downloadx2 approach to wallpaper.Downloadx2 Wallpaper is a new kind of webwallpaper, find on the idea that wallpaper can be more current, efficient and useful. And maybe even fun. After all, Downloadx2 Wallaper has:Free Wallpaper DownloadKeep wanted wallpapers to your rummaging with Downloadx2's innovative technology.USA accessRead Downloadx2 News on your browser by
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As I mentioned in an earlier post about Disney Princess Aurora, the limited release Sleep Beauty Platinum Edition Blu-ray DVD will be available in stores starting TODAY, just in time for early Holiday shopping. I was surprised to read that Sleeping Beauty is “Disney’s most expensive animated feature to date“; I thought for sure a [...]
This isn’t funny news, but its interesting news for those of you who care about justice.
13 year to the day after being found not guilty of murdering of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman, O.J. Simpson was found guilty of armed robbery, kidnapping and a dozen other offenses. He was found guilty of masterminding and carrying [...]
Daniel Cabrera.The sound of his name either makes you wince, groan, or yell expletives. For years, we have been looking forward to him seeing the light and perhaps becoming a dominant majoe league pitcher; however, after a promising April and May, his whole season basically has gone to well — use your imagination.We have been teased by potential — for example, his one-hit performance in New Yo
Last year, I wrote a series of posts about foreign ownership of U.S. securities in an attempt to show that the reckless spending of America (private and public) has the effect of transferring American wealth abroad. It is not my belief that any people deserve to have a wealth advantage over others; I only write [...]
Reprinted from ehistorybuff.com"All professions are a conspiracy against the laity." George Bernanrd Saw"There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy ; hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny." ----Frederick RobertsonHistory is littered with frauds the foundation of which are issues of authenticity : for example, many European cathedrals were built on the basis of a supposed knuckle bone of a s
Children love ice cream like cats love string, and like mold loves bread. And I was no exception growing up in sunny southern California. My sisters and I would ceaselessly nag, beg, and pester my father into hauling us to the closest Baskin Robbins ice cream parlor for occasional treats. Back in the 70s, [...]
Reprinted from ehistorybuff.com'It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes, at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds." (Ch. XIX The Duke and the Dauphin Come Aboard). ----------Mark Twain-Huckleberry FinnCertificates of authenticity, a term I had never heard before ten or twelve of them were bandied about authenticating clearly forged Elvis Presley man
Ok, so you've been trying to save money. You've changed your spending habits, and you're really not a really big spender. So, where is all that money going?
I had a bad case of bloggers block this week, so I decided to do some (financial) housekeeping. Here's what I found in my stack of weekly receipts :
Cigarettes: Average $4.54 per pack, one pack a day, 7 days a week, costs $1650 per year no
Francis Coppola had more than his share of production difficulties while shooting his epic-scale Vietnam War drama Apocalypse Now, including disastrous weather conditions, problems with his leading men (Harvey Keitel was fired after less than two weeks on the project and was replaced by Martin Sheen, who suffered a heart attack midway through production), and a schedule and budget that quickly spi
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It's back. Reading deprivation. For those of you who are unfamiliar, reading deprivation is taking a deliberate break from reading anything. This idea comes from Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way, which is like an instruction manual for discovering and unleashing your creativity. I am again attempting to make it through her book, which I quit at this exact point last
Ever thought the scientific methods and reasoning behind the Big Bang theory should be something we know more about?
Today is being toted as a milestone for mankind and science as the first collision test, a successful run of a massive particle collider, took place just outside of Geneva.
Scientists first utilised the LHC - Large Hadron [...]
Ashes of Time Redux is a movie by outstanding director Wong Kar Wai. The movie starring big names like Tony Leung Ka Fai, Jacky Cheung, Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Carina Lau and Charlie Young. The story is about a broken-hearted hit man who moves to the desert where he finds skilled swordsmen to carry out [...]
Nobody can sum up the eighties better than John Hughes did. His films had a social satire with which we can all connect. He brought the "Brat Pack" movement alive. From high school drama to more grown up issues, his films encompassed them all. One of my all time favorites, Sixteen Candles, shed a little light on what it's like to go through high school as a teenage girl, who is neglected by her fa
If you are a fan of the site, then you probably read our original ‘7 Greatest Video Game Urban Legends’ post, which quickly became our most popular article ever. We thought it was about time to bring back the post with updates and new information.
We all have heard of them, swore to have done [...]
We are very excited about the blog THIS WEEK. After our discussion of William Voegeli's excellent Wall Street Journal piece two weeks ago, we engaged in a discussion with Dr. Voegeli via email. We all agreed to reprint that exchange here for the purposes of stimulating additional dialogue. Though Dr. Voegeli did not have time to write a formal response to our response to his response (dizzy yet
Since I've recovered from my iliopsoas muscle pull in January and continuing to get my speed back, I've been missing my dog walk contacts, a lot! I missed them pretty much all through Regionals in July, and several trials before. My frame contacts are still really good, Mum and I are both happy with them, no babysitting, no worries that I'll miss them no matter where she is. But we needed to find
Day before yesterday, as that impostor serendipity would have it, I saw Trishul, the movie of the seventies, when Amitabh Bachchan had just broken into the film firmament as a star, and giants such...
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If you missed last week's Ethics committee hearings into the Conservatives' in and out election funding scheme, a most arrogant display of obstruction and contempt of parliament, fear not. CPAC (schedule) is rerunning the circus performances of the Incredibly Disorderly Cons this week. We all know now what their summer reading consisted of and it wasn't Danielle Steele. Never have so many known s
DIY web site Instructables features detailed step-by-step instructions for building a sturdy laptop bag with 42 floppy disks, canvas, twine, and a few other materials you may already have on hand. The tutorial is written by the same guy who built the original floppy disk bag, who says the new version improves significantly on the [...]
Well, Dan got into the horny issue of ass tattoos (aka tramp stamps, California licence plates, sluttoos and more). As part of out ongoing drive to bring the low life to life, here’s our tramp stamp gallery.
But first, introduce your kids to the concept (gently), take the celebrity tramp stamp quiz, and it doesn’t mean [...]
All righty. Cancer sucks. I believe we've already established that one. I'm particularly pissy toward the Big C, because my dad's lengthy career as an oncologist shaped my childhood. Then I went and married a similar work-a-holic cancer-knight dude, and now I'm the Oncologist's Wife. I'm the daughter of not one, but two cancer survivors. I'm the unhappy witness to many people's stories of th
In Milwaukee, one side of a city block houses the largest collection of American System-Built Houses - Frank Lloyd Wright's foray into the world of pre-fab housing.A full page newspaper ad in 1917 touted these designs as low-cost homes built with factory-made components.Several designs were offered with variations on each design theme. This group of System-Built Houses is the largest grouping in
Over at the WSJ Shelby Steele tries to explain the motives behind Jesse Jackson's recent castration comment....he (Jackson) and the entire civil rights establishment pursued equality through the manipulation of white guilt. Their faith was in the easy moral leverage over white America that the civil rights victories of the 1960s had suddenly bestowed on them. So Mr. Jackson and his generation of b
EFX2 blogs has reared it’s ugly head once again. Apparently the service has gone dark yet again for lack of support, financial or maintenance, or both. (They should have listened to my proposal on revenue generating techniques when they had the chance.) For those not familiar with EFX2, it was / is a blog service [...]
In the wake of Viacom's $1 BILLION copyright infringement lawsuit settlement, YouTube has been ordered to turn over 12 TERABYTES of database information of every video ever watched on the site, complete with user IDs and IP addresses. In the wake of massive protest and fear, Google/YouTube reached an agreement to "mask" the user data, hoping to alleviate some concerns over this Big Brother
Not long ago our good friend Nuria at Recipes Pic by Pic offered to do a food exchange with us, knowing both how obsessed we are with Spanish food and their comparative scarcity over here in the States. In return she asked that we send her some typical American products of our choice as well [...]
Over at The Dish Andrew has more on the hypocracy of the Hippocratic oath takers.Psychologist Marty Seligman has objected to the notion that he "assisted" the torture program of the president in Gitmo and throughout the war on terror. Jane Mayer never actually used that word, others have in describing Mayer's book. No facts in Mayer's book have been disputed by Seligman. Here's Jane's response to
Thank you......NELLY??!?......for bringing back the New York classic isht. One of the first truly hip-hop brands, b-boys, nefs, and dealers all rocked Troop at one point or another, made popular by none other than Ladies Love Cool J.
But when a rumor got on the hood wire that TROOP stood for "To Rule Over Oppressed People," and was owned by the KKK, TROOP (whose volume was 95% African
All good recipes are little else but inspiration, right? Someone decided that a bunch in ingredients make a good thing when all scrambled together, it gets written down and something new is born. Recipes, to me, have always been one part guideline and the rest is an incentive to create something better. Rarely do [...]
Well if you remember I was supposed to pick up my pop up camper on Tuesday...well the best laid plans of mice and men. My trailer hitch did not arrive until Thursday. I had the hitch installed and I am now picking the camper up today. I am totally excited, me and my wife saved our money to buy this thing...we don't do debt if we can avoid it. Always pay cash if you can and if you can't then maybe
We're out for the day and won't be able to do a complete blog post today, but we wanted to show you another example of a market-chasing listing. This one is in Mission Viejo, and it has been on the market for 79 days:26482 Via Lara, 92691Current asking price: $599,693Description: 4 Bedroom Excellence / Value in Mission Viejo! Owners are motivated and it's priced to sell NOW! Brand NEW carpet 6/13/
Woohoo! The Art-o-mat at the Doylestown library has been cycled out from when I first blogged about finding it last year. The current machine has some nifty gears and shiny bits in with the robot that don't show up well in the photograph.Of course, I had to buy a bit of art. I chose a mini art quilt by Nikki Wheeler and a collage by Rachel Freeman. Both are nice pieces
Ahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!! No coming back now Soulja, u got the OG, watch ya head young gun!! Man, that "Crank that Ice-T" breakdancin' funny as sh#t though!!
The recent kiss and make up betwixt Little Satan and the HAMAS Strip is just the latest in an elaborate strip tease of regional proportionsThe world's very first freely elected suicide gov spins it like a win for innocent civilians trapped in a time traveling semi caliphate where death is precious, praised and preferred, stubborn resistence and a def smack down for those wicked wacky neocons and i
Another attempt to capture a water drop with my camera. I think the results are much better than my previous attempt: -365-day-5-water.html.Canon Digital Rebel XTi. 100mm Macro, 1/2500 second at f/2.8 . ISO 1600. to see full post with images.
Apocalipsis Now Redux
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El capitán Benjamin Willard se encuentra inmovilizado por el miedo en una oscura habitación de un hotel de Saigón. Al poco tiempo, es requerido para llevar a cabo una peligrosa misión: debe remontar el río y adentrarse en Camboya para encontrar a un oficial norteamericano que ha organizado su propio ejército. Su objetivo es matar al
I'd mentioned before that I have a checklist I go through with Michael each morning. This was an effort to help him remember what to do and what to avoid doing during his day at Ms K's.Like, don't flush stuff down the toilet, and don't yank the hardware out of the walls. Basic stuff like that.Well, he's been doing so well the last few months that I've dropped it entirely.Instead, he has a checklis
Doesn't Heidi Klum look just like Kim Basinger from LA Confidential here? Also, she seems to have a new giant tattoo. Wonder what it says?image from eonline.com
I'm taking liberties and re-posting an old post I wrote almost 2 years ago, entitled: Home? (It's been a long day and tomorrow is the last day of school, but I don't want to blow NaBloPoMo.)_______________________________________We're "home," back in MA and unpacking. It has been many, many years since I missed my hometown with the fervor I did as we drove away this morning. I had a very hard tim
This was my first race since Leona Divide about 6 weeks ago. Within those past 6 weeks I have been suffering from a IT Band issues. About 6 days prior to big bear I started to feel better. I had a aggressive treatment program, I guess my body just needed a rest.Going into this 15mile race, I wanted to see if it was possible to run faster than I did last year. This year I finished at 3:17, last ye
Holy shit balls, it's finally here. The 2008 Rock City Festival has finally arrived, and we have to admit, we're having trouble holding in our excitement. Seriously, have you seen the lineup? Saying that this shit is going to be bananas is the understatement of the year. It's going to be super-bananas. Super-duper bananas. So
I'm having a bit of a tiff in the comments section to my post the other day, which was otherwise one of the best-received posts I've ever had. Although it is not worth reviving most of the debate here, I think the commenter does make one important point that is presumably intended to undermine my argument that political coalitions are not monolithic but are instead slowly but constantly shifting a
Barack Obama is the first African-American presidential candidate of a major political party. It is a historic accomplishment. Unfortunately for us, it's his only accomplishment.
From Hot Air
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Some will recall the similarities between Barack Obama’s “Just Words” speech and almost identical rhetoric from a previous David Axelrod client, Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts. When YouTube videos juxtaposing both speeches started making the rounds, Patrick leaped to Obama’s defense, saying he had counseled Obama and urged him to use Patrick’s arguments [...]
>...Can Barack Obama develop an original thought in his head? He borrowed “Just Words” from Patrick. He lifted “Yes We Can” from Cesar Chavez, and in some cases didn’t bother to translate it into English. Now he reaches back to the rhetoric of a disastrous cycle for Democrats to copy an old, tired line of attack.....>>
Adobe Flash drive-by attacks reduxZDNet - 17 minutes agoWhile Lenoe hedges his bets, several researchers have reversed the malware executable to trace the attacks to hackers stealing World of Warcraft passwords. …
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5:47 a.m.I'm not certain when, exactly, it happened, but at some point, the clock in the master bedroom came to display a time twelve minutes faster than every other clock in the house. This can be, alternately, a relief (as in, Oh, phew! I still have twelve minutes!) and a heart attack waiting to happen (as in, Oh, my god! Is that the time?!? Aaaaaaa!)This morning, though, it was neither. Having
Jake Gyllenhaal (Donnie Darko, The Day After Tomorrow, Brokeback Mountain) has been cast in the starring role as The Prince of Persia, in...Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Described thusly, "In the fantasy adventure, Gyllenhaal will play Dastan, a young prince in sixth century Persia who must join forces with Tamina (Arterton), a feisty and exotic princess, to prevent a villainous nobleman fr
After playing a populist tune for weeks, Hillary is focusing on the nasty side of party politics, pulling all the DNC strings she can. And the Clinton camp is putting all its weight in the May 31 meeting where the destiny of Michigan and Florida delegates will be sealed.Actually, since she cannot change the maths, HRC's only way of winning now is to change the rules and thus to focus on those who
OpenSecrets.org has gone live with updated fundraising stats that include the first quarter of 2008.According to a Center for Responsive Politics staffer, it's possible that some late data may still trickle in. But for now, this new set of numbers should give us a pretty clear idea of where things stand.The upshot? The junior senator remains vastly more popular with out of state donors than with M
This is a recap of my trip on August 10, 2007. Konrad Salwey and his father Wolfe live in Oberrotweil in one of the more southernly sections of Baden. It is a beautiful town and area and their vineyards are definetly in an area where there is not much around. I was really taken by the area and the wines. So relaxing and in August extremely green and lush are the vineyards I can see myself later in life retiring to a small village in Baden. I just love it. This was a long visit as we started off with a small tour of the distillery, as Weingut Salwey also distills tons of spirits along with with their numerous bottlings of wine. Konrad was also building a new winery which we saw and he just recently bought a rock quarry, which we also saw. Well onto the wines. This was my first time tasting
A few years ago I wrote quite a number of “Street Copy” posts, where all of the photos were taken with my trusty old Palm Zire 71. The Zire fell in disuse over the last year or so, and Street Copy posts ceased… ...
In many ways the events surrounding the period just before and early on in the Great Depression seem to bear a striking similarity to what we have seen recently.Maybe the events of this last year are simply an example of the typical ebb and flow of interactions between private institutions, the government and market participants during times of economic stress and uncertainty and that it’s only the reaction to turmoil that is similar.Or, more pessimistically, Maybe through a somewhat different path and to a different degree the economy has found itself in essentially the same precarious position as it had been in during the initial stages of the Great Depression and a similar unwinding is now underway.Or, more optimistically, maybe things just seem similar but they are in fact very diffe
