Hey, it’s May already. What’s the dealio with the spittin’ snow? I went to lunch in my car, and when I came back, there were little spitballs of the stuff coming down. I suppose in a month we’ll be whining about how hot it is, but come on with the good weather, okay? Under “Stuff” I’ll just add that I’m pretty much done with incessant screwing around with the blog design for at least a few months. I do have a few oddities to fix. Feel free to stop by the “About” page, I stuck some fan merch links in…
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“You are no match for my powerful happy armpit hair death ray, which I can utilize for only 8,000 yen!” cries your savior, who rides to your rescue on a white coat and sporting a porno mustache. The happy armpit hairs quickly become sad, shaking in fear at what the stranger might pull out of his pocket. My sister Timmy is not going to understand why this is funny. My sister Tudy is not going to understand why this is funny. My oldest niece Holly will probably get a kick out of it. Let’s love armpit happy! For my Brillo…
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The Good Wife Strikes BackBy: Elizabeth BuchanOkay, uncle uncle already. Or auntie, auntie, same deal. I give up on this book. I bought it based on the cute, charming cover art and assumed that it would turn out to be a cute, charming tale of a lady of a certain age who Finds Herself just in time. It had some sort of British/Tuscan storyline hinted at in the jacket, and that seemed like a good start. Currently there are a number of books and movies in circulation featuring charm, villas, good food, good wine, ladies who live large and well,…
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Earlier tonight, we were hungry for a snack or appetizer before dinner (fried rice and soy-ginger tofu) was ready. On checking the larder, a veritable feast was waiting to be created from odds and ends of ethnic food. After some thought, we assembled our multi-cultural nosh: gefilte fish, wasabi sauce, wasabi peas, tortilla chips, salsa, and British bitter. This originally came about because we both had a yen for gefilte fish (heh) but had no horseradish on hand. But we do have powdered wasabi, which is actually a kind of horseradish (at least in the US. Eureka! After documenting this…
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Lynn and Alex, the Happy Boys For some reason, late in the season of Amazing Race I run out of steam as far as putting up posts and listing all the teams and how they did. This is the third season that has aired since I started blogging, and every time it’s the same. It’s not that I lose the love for my show, it’s that trying to keep track of all the teams in the confusing first 3 weeks or so is part of the charm. There’s a lot more wild-card onscreen drama and comedy, and it’s a lot…
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Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Yesterday was quite a day – we started out in the morning, relatively early, to grab a nice breakfast and drive all the way up to Kettle Moraine State Forest (South) for a short hike in the woods. It was a nicer day for it than we expected but we only took a couple of photos. It was the longest drive we’ve taken in the new car (Ford Escape Hybrid) and we geeked out in a couple of ways; namely we set up a competition between the portable navigation system (Fred, who’s pretty smart and…
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I’m working on a project for Holy Moly; I got rooked into finding all the readings for the upcoming Day of Pentecost in a bunch of different languages. Including Thai… not sure why since I don’t know of anyone there who speaks the language, but maybe someone is inviting a friend. I was playing around trying to pronounce the reading in Maori, kind of in the style of the All Blacks doing the haka, when David sent me this picture. Beautiful. I needed a good laugh. I’ve been at this for a while and I needed a break.
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I went looking for information on the “Can’t Stop The Signal” sneak preview of “Serenity” and found comments on Whedonesque to the effect that the Chicago screening is already sold out. In fact, I’d be willing to bet that almost all of the ten screenings on May 5th at 10pm are sold out already. Fooey. But it’s a Thursday – we would have gotten home at about… 1am. Oh, well. Sucks to be middle-aged and employed. So I’ll wait for the official release date of September 30. And yes, this is another one of those examples of the fans of…
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What kind of browser do you use? According to my stats (see below), it breaks down along fairly predictable lines. Unlike some blogs I could mention (like BoingBoing) Internet Explorer is still the browser of choice by a comfortable margin. Or is it? Are the Internet Explorers humans, or robots? Are they monkeyboys, or spiders, or an even lower form of life? Are the Mac users more highly evolved than the rest of us (that outta get a rise of their elitist plug-and-play asses)? 😉 So I’ve reached back into the grab-bag of yore and enabled a little poll. It’s…
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It’s about frickin’ time I got the last Britain travel journal entry done. Because of the fiddling back-dating I did, the earliest entry is at the bottom, but it’s all in September of 2003. You can definitely see a progression in the way I handled images and blogging – the first 2 or 3 entries were written very early in my distinguished writing career. 🙄 Sorry about the ugly “photo corners” on some images. I stupidly put them on and now I can’t take them off. Lesson learned. Anyway, it’s done. If you start here and keep clicking on the…