Freak season lets Utah skiers go 4th – Yahoo! News Okay, I heard this on WXRT on the way in, and now it’s front page in the Chicago Trib. The people of Chicago are might envious of this thing you call “snow.” Today’s temp is supposed to get up to 95 or higher. No rain in sight, it was a dry spring, and there are watering restrictions out here in Burbclavia. I expect later in the summer there’ll be an outright ban. And then the other day, there was a massive hailstorm in Colorado Springs, and right now there’s flooding…
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Okay, so I’m podding already. Downloaded 4 6 7 songs from iTunes already. My husband David’s going to regret this already. I’ve already realized it’s pretty trippy to play Cirque du Soleil’s Icare, then segue into Tiny Hat Orchestra’s Sing, Sing, Sing, then Rachel Yamagata’s Worn Me Down… and so on and so on. Hmm, there’s a new album by Cam Newton on iTunes… well, David has only himself to blame. I’d better get to bed…soon. Right after synching up and listening to that Cam Newton tune. I used to go to the weekly Beer Garden ‘way, ‘way back in…
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Personally, this horrifies me on so many levels: Arkansas Family Expecting 16th Child How can someone justify this large a family as a moral imperative? Our country consumes the bulk of the world’s resources in fossil fuels and yet are behind other nations in the percentage of our gross national product that we donate to poor countries. We don’t donate 0.7% like some of our peers. “Extreme poverty can be reduced, and indeed eliminated, in our generation,” Sachs told journalists last week in a national conference call. “What it will take is increased investment.” How much? To the American who…
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* beep’s Remote Patrol notes that former Amazing Race winner Reichen Leimkuhl and other reality “stars” will be in a new show where they all live together while filming a horror film. Oh, the horror indeed. That’ll get a big thumbs-down on the TiVo.
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We’re making an attempt here at Chez Guique to be more active and eat better. We went for the bike ride the other night – 11 miles, not too shabby – and today I felt like a salad rather than a gutbomb at the office cafeteria. I stood behind a rather heavy woman who very slowly picked individual leaves of lettuce out of the bin in the salad bar. Then she very slowwwly and deliberately put 4 ladles of French dressing on her salad. I waited until she moved away, then added a couple of items and crunchy things to…
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My husband David, with the help of Mac gurus Steve and Fred, got me a reconditioned iPod. This will make my friend Kevin do the happy bum-wiggle footy dance discreetly at his desk. It’s a 4-gig silver iPod. We have to get a high-speed USB2 card for my computer, but David says that’s no big deal. So very soon I’ll be learning how to navigate iTunes and figuring out all kinds of other junk. And also, as a wacko NPR / AAR loyalist, I have to download the latest OK Go EP, because Adam Felbers says so. And as Adam…
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Okay, I actually found this via Boing Boing and it totally rocks. I’m thinking of saying it the next time I’m stuck having to recite the Pledge. And I know at least one person who owns a UFP flag, so must pass it along later. “It’s Ms., please. And sorry for my attire, but I ran a marathon yesterday and I’m too sore to change this morning.” I tried to infect her with my smile, but she wore a tight-lipped expression as frosty as her jacket. “So, anyway. What did he do?” I picked at the hem of my sweatshirt,…
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Saturday night we went to see Batman Begins. It was pretty good, but I thought it dragged in some spots. David liked it better than I did. Afterwards, we went to Brass for dinner and a nice pubbrew. A great evening. By far, the best part was the TRAILERS. Specifically, the Big Damn Movie Trailer! I made an involuntary W00T! noise and clapped, before David even figured out what it was. Watched with rapt attention (because I never seem to be able to nab tickets to the Sneak Previews, another of which is June 23rd and totally sold out). At…
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going jesus totally cracked me up today. Sara’s been watching Davey and Goliath reruns on TiVo, which started a nice ramble down memory lane. She notes that the Loot’rans have their own cartoon show, and we don’t, darn it. Guess “EpiscoBoy and His Sidekick Angly The Anglican Armadillo” is stuck in development hell. For that, I would totally get up early on Sundays and eat Froot Loops before toddling off to be all churchy. As I had all kinds of stuff yesterday, I could have used a bowl of Froot Loops early in the morning, since I had to make…
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Yesterday was the Day of the African Child, and international aid officials that met to mark the day noted that it would cost approximately 1 billion dollars per year to adequately care for the millions of children in Africa orphaned by AIDS or war or famine. The money is needed to pay for school fees or health care. A small investment in Africa’s children now means more stable societies in the future, because the people are educated and productive. This seems like another good reason to make poverty history. BBC NEWS | Africa | Appeal to help Africa’s orphans