Storm? What storm? | Chicago Tribune Before taking off for dinner, David and I pulled all the patio chairs off to the side of the house and secured some lighter things so they wouldn’t blow around. I stuck the last few unplanted plants in the ground in the “kitty garden” and along the side of the house. The wind had been blowing hard all day, but it was hot and humid, a very weird and unsettling sensation. All through dinner, we watched people out on an outside terrace eating their dinners while clutching their hair and belongings to keep them…
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Today’s kind of a hard day for me. In this photo of Mom from her 90th birthday party, she’s not actually sad, she’s probably just trying to read a birthday card. Either that, or she was wondering “Now where the HELL is my glass of white zin?” Via: Flickr Title: MurphBday025 By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 8 Sep ’05, 11.17pm CDT PST I think she’s trying to read a card and work out whether it’s funny or not.
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Major mall proposed in Joliet | Chicago Tribune Somebody has to benefit, big time. Now it appears a much-needed connector expressway to the southwest suburbs will probably go through because a giant mall will be built near a major access point for same. It’ll make visits to David’s parents easier, though.
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Enjoy the highly amusing parody Steam Trek, featuring the winsome Mr. Soot and the great use he puts to those boring old Captain’s Logs. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/6Y39gHihP74" width="400" height="326" wmode="transparent" /] YouTube – Steam Trek: The Moving Picture (Star Trek Parody)
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Top 5 tricks for taking professional looking photos with your digital camera | SamirBharadwaj.com (tags: Photography Art StumbleUpon) Acrobots (tags: StumbleUpon Space funny blog Game) The Portrait of a Healer Idealist Whoa. (tags: INFP) whocalled.us These guys call a cow-orker all the time. I’ve told him to tell them to stop calling at work, but they ignore it. (tags: dirtbags)
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HRC | Holsinger’s Anti-Gay Views Make Him ‘Unworthy’ of Surgeon General Post WASHINGTON — The Human Rights Campaign spoke out today in opposition to President Bush’s nomination of Dr. James Holsinger to the position of surgeon general. Among other things, the U.S. surgeon general is charged with educating Americans about public health.“Dr. Holsinger has a record that is unworthy of America’s doctor,†said Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese. “His writings suggest a scientific view rooted in anti-gay beliefs that are incompatible with the job of serving the medical health of all Americans. It is essential that America’s top doctor…
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Message to Episcopalians | Chicago Tribune (tags: Episcopalian Anglican MacIyalla) GAZPACHO RECIPE, SPANISH COLD TOMATO SOUP (tags: Recipes) Spanish Food – How To Make Spicy Gazpacho Soup. (tags: Recipes)
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It was another wild whirl of social events for us this weekend. No, really. Friday, we went out for sushi at Kampai, a local favorite kind of place. It’s the kind of place that really floats our boats when we want a lot of good sushi fast, or relatively fast. We’ve been going there for 10 years now, and it’s one of those places where we don’t even have to communicate in complete sentences – or with words, even. Sometimes, all that is necessary to indicate a desire for sushi is an arm, extended in expectation that it’ll be twisted.…
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Some have it, some don’t… or is that really true? Is it possible that all women would be considered beautiful at some point the history of art? [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/nUDIoN-_Hxs" width="400" height="326" wmode="transparent" /] YouTube – Women In Art [tags]YouTube[/tags]
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Global Nerdy » LOLCODE, the LOLCat Programming Language LOLCODE is your standard Algol-style programming language (Algol is the grandfather of just about every popular current programming language) married to the lolcat captioning style — that is, ALL CAPS and I CAN HAS SILLY CAT GRAMMER AND SPELING KTHXBYE.Here’s HAI WORLD, the LOLCODE version of “Hello, World!â€: HAI  CAN HAS STDIO?  VISIBLE "HAI WORLD!"  KTHXBYE Here’s something that outputs the numbers 1 through 10, a classic beginner’s exercise: HAI  CAN HAS STDIO?  I HAS A VAR  IM IN YR LOOP  UP VAR!!1  VISIBLE VAR  IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 10? KTHXBYE  IM…