I’m no sports fan, so admittedly I’m no expert on this, but I really have to question a person’s motivation to dress up in some outllandish way in order to show their support for a team. What, really, is the point? Will your team win if you and your friends paint the letters of the team names on your pale, hairless chests and stand throughout the game? Will they lose if you fail to shave your chest hair first (in the case of male fans) and then stand in the wrong order, spelling out “GO SCUB?” It won’t make a…
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I saw a stunning-looking convertible roadster just now on my way back from the mall. At first, I thought it was a heavily modded Corvette, because it had “head bumps” on the rear body, just behind the head rests. Then, I thought it was some European snazzy goodness, similar to the precisely engineered car my niece Holly drives. Then I glanced at the logoplate above the rear bumper. It was… a… SATURN? Detroit Auto Show: Saturn Sky – Autoblog Why, yes, apparently it was. Good looking car, from any angle. Not bad for a chick-magnet machine; this one was being…
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As you might have guessed, I’ve been following developments, both grievous and joyous, in the Episcopal Church in the weeks following General Convention 2006. News today: the Mother Church’s “General Synod approved the concept of women bishops as ‘theologically justified’ by 288 votes to 119.” BBC NEWS | UK | Church backs female bishops move Of course, the traditional wing has very strong objections, citing the concept as unBiblical. This wing has close ties to the conservative “Global South,” the area mostly under the influence or control of Nigeria’s Bishop Akinola. Actually, the American traditionalists are believed to be sending…
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This is one of those portmanteau posts – you know, a fabulous and not-entirely-practical construct used to illustrate a point in a story (often a shaggy dog one). First off, I've been using ecto for a while, off and on, and while I found it most useful when I had a lot of images to pull into my big Maui post, I haven't been using it much since it upgraded to version 2.0. Mostly because I was struggling with the difference between "Rich Text" and "HTML" mode. It has some handy formatting buttons that only work in Rich Text mode,…
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I was doing my travel agent-y thing the other morning and had occasion to call a Hilton hotel to try to change an existing reservation. Apparently, they had only trainees available who didn’t know how to make the modification I needed – so I was put on hold while they figured out what to tell me (short answer: book additional nights myself in my system). While on hold, I heard a few notes of the “music” they use for such things, and to my surprise it was not only a tune I recognized, but one I have on iTunes and also one…
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Via: Flickr Title: Verbena By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 3 Jul ’06, 6.09pm CDT PST
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Let’s face it, I have no friggin’ clue who reads this stuff, or if I have readers at this here point. I have a stats page, which I check now and then and note that “readership” seems to be going up. But when I dig into said stats, it appears that many of my readership seem to stop by for a few seconds to attempt to leave spam in the comments before leaving. Or, they’re using an image from here as an avatar at MyDumbass or PrincessMarySueFanfic.com There are at least one or two of you, because you comment, and…
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Tikaro.com: John Young’s Blog: “Young man! Do you want to learn electrical engineering the seven passwords of the Gnomon?” …well, you know the obligatory ingredients of a supervillian’s lair? * Underground * Big, heavy, inscrutable machinery * Some kind of platform or catwalk * LCD monitors bolted to the walls * Some kind of big blackboard with lots of math on it. The damp, flyblown, and utterly terrifying unimproved basement space two stories underground had ALL OF THAT, including twelve classroom chairs jammed next to a big blue boiler, facing a six-foot concrete platform, in back of which was mounted…
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CNN.com – Man behind anti-Clinton ad convicted – Jun 28, 2006 EDINBURG, Texas (AP) — A political consultant whose company was behind a television ad accusing the Clinton-Gore administration of giving away nuclear technology was convicted of child molestation charges. A jury deliberated almost two days before convicting Carey Lee Cramer, 44, of aggravated sexual assault of a child, two counts of indecency with a child by contact and one count of indecency with a child by exposure. He was cleared of nine other charges Tuesday. Oh, ho ho ho ho. How very delicious: a Rethugnican political consultant getting hard…
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Obama: Democrats Must Court Evangelicals | Chicago Tribune Obama ROCKS. Right on. RIGHT on: WASHINGTON — Sen. Barack Obama chastised fellow Democrats on Wednesday for failing to “acknowledge the power of faith in the lives of the American people,” and said the party must compete for the support of evangelicals and other churchgoing Americans. “Not every mention of God in public is a breach to the wall of separation. Context matters,” the Illinois Democrat said in remarks to a conference of Call to Renewal, a faith-based movement to overcome poverty. “It is doubtful that children reciting the Pledge of Allegiance…