No Longer Smurfy
Due to complaints from various family members (with no sense of humor), the message on my cell phone is no longer the smurf song, as sung by me.
Tuesday, August 31, 2004
Random Blues
Even looking at the NYT fashion pages failed to cheer me up (they’re almost always good for a laugh) so here’s some other random stuff.
From the BBC, a bear bicycle bandit:
A bold amphibious escape bid by a bear at Berlin zoo has been foiled in a dramatic shoot-out.
What made the story for me, is that [...]
Hope the Day Gets Better
Talked to my Dad this morning (and got e-mail from my aunt last night). Cousin Pat goes in for surgery tomorrow. It looks like the lymph cancer has spread; this in addition to their recent discovery of colon cancer.
Please send your good thoughts towards Baltimore tomorrow.
Monday, August 30, 2004
Childish and Immature
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Five
Five signs on the door.
Five.
And people STILL walk in.
“Oh. You’re closed? I didn’t know.”
THAT’S WHY THE DOORS ARE CLOSED AND HAVE SIGNS PLASTERED ALL OVER YOUR MORON! GET OUT!
(deep breath)
Okay. I’m better now. Really.
Sunday, August 29, 2004
American Car Makers Whine Because They’re Building Monstrosities Instead of Fuel Efficient Vehicles
Aides to (Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger) say he will sign legislation approved on Thursday that could allow up to 75,000 hybrid drivers, mainly those behind the wheel of a gas-sipping Prius, to use car pool lanes even when taking to the road alone. The governor hopes the perk will encourage more people to buy the cleaner-burning [...]
Saturday, August 28, 2004
Snood Who?
Must. Stop. Snooding.
Honorable
I can’t beleive I forgot to mention this earlier!
Erin got an honorable mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. This is the second year in a row she’s made honorable mention! Yea Erin!
Of course for the second year in a row they spelled her name wrong, but at least she got mentioned.
And no, I [...]
Friday, August 27, 2004
It’s Friday!
Guess what that means?
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Thursday, August 26, 2004
Life, Can Be So Nice
A recent post at The Main Point, has got me thinking about quality of life.
In my Gerontology class last year, one student said that if he got so old they took away he’s driver’s license, he’s just kill himself, because he couldn’t take that big a limitation. My first thought was to wonder how [...]
Update on Accident
In regard to this post…
Preston woman recovers after I-68 accident
A Bruceton Mills woman involved in a rollover accident along Interstate 68 earlier this week is recovering in Ruby Hospital Memorial, a Ruby spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Linda Louise Adams, 57, was transported to Ruby by medical helicopter Tuesday evening after she lost control of her four-door Nissan [...]
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
The Short Story Is Dead! Long Live the Short Story!
An article in today’s NY Times discussing short stories struck me, mostly because it was a sharp reminder of how my reading habits differ from the habits of “the general public”, and how the genre I love best (fantasy) seems strangely separated from the rest of the world.
Almost no one makes a living from writing [...]
I Told You That Wouldn’t Last Long
Yup. I was right. The bright and cheery colors are gone from my main page. The graphic will change when I get access to my pictures, but it’ll do for now.
I may also look for a different image for the weblog, but maybe not.
I think I’m finally starting to understand Cascading Style Sheets.
Maybe Now I Can Stop Feeling Guilty About Ordering Water
A Regular Soda a Day Boosts Weight Gain
Data collected from 51,603 women over an average of four years found that the women who gained the most weight were those who increased their consumption of non-diet drinks from one or fewer per week to one or more per day, the researchers found. Such women gained [...]
Zero Tolerence for Bush
Crikey!
Tuesday, August 24, 2004
Slices
I like to watch people. I also like to listen to public conversations (we call this conversation paratrooping). Both together often give me little bits of strangers lives—I sometimes wonder how the people I’m watching got where they did, and wonder how they are going to end up. I think it’s related to my love [...]
Walk. Walk. Walk.
Microsoft is still evil. Ran into a new problem today: when trying to do a mail merge of class grades, even though in Excel the data is rounded to two decimal points, it appears in Word out to 8 places.
This is stupid. And we never found a solution.
Finally got around to read Tennyson’s Lady of [...]
Monday, August 23, 2004
Stop! Or I’ll Say STOP Again!
So what is the point of having security guards without guns or anything else that would allow them to stop an art theft that occurred in broad daylight?
I. Hate. Microsoft.
You can’t even believe how much I hate Microsoft.
I have some data that I want to sort by date, so I copy the data into Excel, run the sort, and then discover that Excel has put the column in alphabetical order.
No good.
So I spent an hour playing with the formatting in Excel and Word, [...]
Sunday, August 22, 2004
The Blackie Ryan Mysteries
This may be it for the fun reading for awhile.
Which is why, of course, we went to three bookstores this weekend and bought more books. But really! I needed to replace my copy of Steven Brust’s The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars.
The Blackie Ryan Mysteries by Andrew M. Greeley
Although I like Andrew M. Greeley’s [...]
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