What Else I’ve Done On My Vacation
Went to see Shooter (enjoyed it, but wouldn’t recommend it to my parents on grandmother).
And read. (My latest recommendations: What Angels Fear by C.S. Harris and Moonshine by Rob Thurman.)
Friday, March 30, 2007
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
What I Did On My Vacation
Eat.
And buy things I can’t get in Morgantown.
Especially things relating to food:
Joseph Beth’s Bookseller
Fresh Market (grocery store)
Sur La Table (kitchen)
DSW (shoes for Michael)
Wild Oats (grocery store)
William-Sonoma (kitchen)
Papyrus (stationary store)
Aveda
Half Price Books
Jungle Jim’s (grocery store)
Newport Aquarium
Barnes & Noble
Graeter’s (6 pints of ice cream plus dry ice & cooler)
Sur La Table (kitchen)
Hush Puppies
That would be 3 [...]
Saturday, March 24, 2007
More Strange Weather
Oh no! Not the dreaded fdg! Whatever shall we do?
Friday, March 23, 2007
It Never Rains But It Pours
It’s like an evil plan of bad weather.
It’s like the weather gods saying, “sunny, warm weather for everyone ELSE.”
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Thursday, March 22, 2007
It’s Not a Bug, It’s a Feature
For those of you who aren’t Americans, or for those Americans who have been living in denial about how the Bush Administration treats returning veterans, things are not going very well for some of the veterans in VA hospitals across the US. As I and others warned years ago, cutting veteran’s benefits really couldn’t come [...]
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Happy Spring!
Not only is it the first day of spring, but it actually feels like spring outside!
Yay!
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Professional Accessories
While searching for information on Adobe Acrobat, I found the information I needed in an Amazon review. While scrolling up to look at the specifications, I noticed an interesting recommended accessory for Adobe Acrobat 7.
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What?! What?! I Can’t Hear You!
They are drilling concrete in the room next to me.
You can not even imagine how loud it is.
Even through my headphones and over the music in my headphones I can still hear it. Luckily, it’s techno, so the noises occasionally blend in with the music.
Monday, March 19, 2007
Historical Time Frames
Because I’m always getting them confused…
Regency Period: 1790-1825
Romantic Period: 1825-1840
Victorian Period: 1840-1869
Edwardian Period: 1900-1910
If forced to choose, I’d probably take the clothes of the Regency period over any of the other periods.
But really, I much prefer that I can wear jeans and t-shirts.
http://www.maggiemayfashions.com/costumehistory.html
Books and Reading
By the way, I’m still writing reviews over at the Random Reading portion of this website. I’m just not cross posting those reviews here. So if you were wondering where the book bits were, they’re over there.
That said, if you’re looking for something to read, I highly recommend:
Night Watch and Day Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
Snake [...]
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Happy Ides of March!
Happy Ides of March!
Unless, of course, you are a ruler who thinks you have a divine right to leadership, and have made members of the Senate very unhappy with you.
In that case, bathing might not be recommended today.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Happy Pi Day
Happy Pi Day!
3.1415926… !
If I’d have remembered sooner, I’d have made pie to celebrate.
You Gotta Pay for That
You know what annoys me? People who are and were opposed to universal health care and increases in taxes who then are shocked (shocked!) and upset when they discover that *they* have to pay for long term care.
Who the hell else is going to pay for it?
/cranky
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Walk the Walk
And more from the BBC…
It really isn’t how you look, it’s how you move.
New York University researchers have found that to be found attractive, a woman had to move in a feminine way – swaying her hips.
Giving Politicians A Bad… Nevermind.
Politicians are the same everywhere, apparently.
Israel recalls ‘naked ambassador’
Israel has recalled its ambassador to El Salvador after he was found drunk and naked apart from bondage gear.
Reports say he was able to identify himself to police only after a rubber ball had been removed from his mouth.
Speaking of Appropriate
futile \FYOO-tul\ adjective
1 : serving no useful purpose : completely ineffective
2 : occupied with trifles : frivolous
I wasn’t particularly aware of the second definition. But the first definition often seems quite appropriate.
Monday, March 12, 2007
Giving the Rest of Us a Bad Name
Here is why people hate tech support.
I received THIS announcement in my e-mail this morning.
8) REMINDER: Daylight Saving Time changes affect online calendars
Daylight Saving Time (DST) has expanded a total of four weeks to include the periods from March 11-31 and Oct. 28-Nov. 4. The Office of Information Technology has automatically updated Windows XP [...]
Friday, March 9, 2007
Not An Extremist
Not that it was too hard not to be an extremist, since most of the answers were way out there.
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Bi-Polar Mother Nature
Wednesday we got half a foot of snow. Thursday we woke up to 9 degrees Fahrenheit. Today, the temperature was 21 F when we left for work. Right now it’s 59 F and sunny.
Some weeks, it really feels like Mother Nature is purposely screwing with us.
Thursday, March 8, 2007
Today’s Word
nacelle • noun
a streamlined casing on the outside of an aircraft or motor vehicle, especially one housing an aircraft engine.
• the passenger compartment of an airship.
— origin early 20th cent. (originally denoting the car of an airship): from French, from late Latin navicella, diminutive of Latin navis ‘ship’.
Okay, I thought Star Trek totally made that [...]
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