Okay, this photo has been making the rounds of the Net; I spotted it at BB: Now, all of the news items I’ve seen (and oddly, though it’s an AP photo, it’s kind of hard to find) are from “blue-stater” sites, so they’re all trumpeting how the loveable old battle-hardened codgers were sitting on their hands and not clapping for the Prez while he blathered on repeating the 9-1-1 mantra (did you know that September 11th was the opening salvo in our war on terrorism? I did not know that). Anyway, the gentleman in the photo is identified as Bill…
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Hey, it’s late summer! Time for a good story about a guy on a bulldozer going on a rampage, like this one: Man Charged With Drunken Bulldozer Ride – Yahoo! News Last June, a man went on a tear through a small Colorado town because he was pissed off at local government. Remember, friends don’t let friends drive bulldozers.
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It always amuses me no end when I’m going through the error queues and come across a record where someone is carrying on an argument in the quality control remarks. In this case, someone was trying to get the quality control program to package up some paper tickets and send them to the address in the reservation. As the packaging people are known to read the quality control remarks, the agent thought they had to send the record to the QC program for the packagers to “see” the updated remarks. This is not the case, however. Only the faithful computer…
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Chicago Tribune | Televangelist Calls for Chavez’ Death Yes, he thinks our gummint should send some special ops guys in to kill Chavez, because it’s cheaper than starting a war to take out a nasty horrible anti-Bushite, and by the way the oil won’t stop flowing. You know what? Pat Robertson is a kook. He’s been saying kooky, wacky, zany things for years. So why is he a major religious leader? Is he the head of a movement made up of other like-minded people? Sometimes I wonder. Robertson has made controversial statements in the past. In October 2003, he suggested…
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My week from hell, day two: My supervisor is out of town all week. My colleague whose job is similar to mine is out of town all week. I back both of them up when they are not in. I work in corporate travel, and there’s an airline strike this week. I am still expected by a service coordinator to somehow take calls. I have been given more latitude by another supervisor, however. I have 1 2 special projects to do this week. I have a hotel group in Vegas this week; last year was a nightmare. I have a…
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CBS News | Bush To Rally Iraq Support | August 22, 2005?11:00:05 My lucky family in Salt Lake will have the dubious pleasure of a Presidential visit there; meanwhile the anti-war activists on the Cindy Sheehan bandwagon couldn’t even get an ad on one local TV station, because it was deemed likely to be “offensive to the community.” No, really it’s likely to be “offensive to the conservative power base most likely to support Bush while his ratings take a dive with everyone else.” A comment on Dan Froomkin’s Washington Post “live interactive” page from a while back comes to…
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Last night we went to see the latest offering at the Marriott Lincolnshire’s musical theater season, “A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum.” I’m really glad I didn’t read the rave reviews in the Chicago Tribune or at Chicago Critic before seeing the show, because then I would have known going in just how big a triumph Guy Adkins has in his portrayal of Pseudolus, the wily and wryly funny slave of ancient Rome. I vaguely knew the story: it’s a pastiche of characters and situations lifted from classical Roman and Greek comedies, mostly from the works…
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Okay, all 5 of you readers, I’m officially starting to panic. The fundraiser concert at Holy Moly is one week from today, and I have no frickin’ idea how many people are going to show up. I’ve dropped off flyers, I’ve posted announcements on craigslist and spammed musicians whose email addresses were available on the web. Here is the gist: they’re young, they’re talented, they’re bound for musical glory. It’s just a matter of time before they “break out.” And you can see them in an intimate setting, with “bright” acoustics, with a bite of dessert and a chance to…
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ARRRGH! Just an hour or so ago I ordered a Calphalon One skillet at Amazon, too! Oh, well. We don’t currently have the storage space for a whole new set…unless we tossed a bunch of our current motley set of cookware. Anyway, the chef’s pan will be dead useful for making “Clamageddon” and “Whatchagot” pasta sauces. This is a really good deal, though: there’s a further discount operating in the month of August, as noted on Elise’s Simply Recipes site: There are a couple promotional offers associated with this sale. First, Amazon.com has a August promotion in which if you…
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The other night, I was lying awake in the dark, drowsily contemplating something or other, and aaaalmost asleep. Faint cries came from somewhere outside, and suddenly I was listening intently. There’s something about the sound of a human distress call in the night that acts like a cattle prod – I was up and and listening at the window within a second or two. I could hear a woman’s voice, either angry or fearful or both, calling out from somewhere down the street. We live in a quiet, boring suburb. There’s usually no noise to speak of at night, other…