Oy, we’ve got a lot of errands today, and then dinner later with David’s parents… about that latter item, more later. This is one of the last two weekends before we take off for Utah, and there are a lot of doodads and things we needed for the house that we wanted to get before then. So in mostly logical order, we’re going to Eddie Bauer at Woodfield (David), Costco (me), Bed Bath & Beyond (both of us, for a lot of house-y stuff we need to replace), Toys R’ Us (UGH!! The Hellmouth! Need to buy a gift card…
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Learning Movable Type: Displaying Categories is just the thing I’ve been looking for: how to get the category to show up in the body of each post. In the later comment, I’m pretty certain the issue with unwanted underlining is a CSS issue, will check on that, too. Learning Moveable Type helped me out before when I added the comments to the sidebar, and keeps giving me ideas of new things to try. It’s a lot easier figuring out how to do something when it’s presented so clearly and sans technomagery.
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One of my team members is somewhat psychotic about decorating for holidays. Actually, we used to have several such – the sort of folks who go overboard buying the latest giant illuminated inflatable Santas at Christmas, who buy up half Walmart in their quest to get a good deal on dancing hamsters dressed as Elvis, singing fish, and anything that lights up and is shiny (they’re kind of like the magpies of kitsch, really). Anyway, the one psycho Person of Questionable Taste decided we needed something for the holiday doldrums; ie., that period between Valentine’s Day and St. Patrick’s Day.…
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Interesting links to check after work via Neat New Stuff: BBC – BBC Four – Audio Interviews Keeping Things Found (we’re constantly struggling with this one)
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BBC NEWS | Americas | Mother charged in Caesarean row Um. “Did not want her cosmetic appearance disfigured” does not go with the photo, somehow. It’ll probably turn out to be a misunderstanding based on some wacko “only in Utah” twist. According to the Salt Lake Trib, the surviving twin, a girl, has already been adopted. If she didn’t want the babies in the first place, why go through with a full-term pregnancy? Oh, never mind, she may have had moral objections to one well-known remedy for “oopses”. (irony mode on). I just don’t get it. On a side note…
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I realized that I was completely out of funny, after reading today’s news, so I stepped out to Fanatical Apathy to get some. That’s better. Adam’s on his much-delayed honeymoon (or is hiding out from fanatically apathetic fans on a tropical island with his better half)((he reports that his marriage is also just fine after thousands of gay weddings in the last month)). And now, bedtime. (not as cool as Pepys’ signoff, but it’ll have to do)
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Two Setbacks for Advocates of Same-Sex Marriage BOSTON, March 11 — In near-simultaneous setbacks to advocates of same-sex marriage, Massachusetts legislators gave preliminary approval this afternoon to a state amendment banning gay marriages while the California Supreme Court ordered the City of San Francisco to halt gay marriages. Phooey. If Cook County decides to start issuing licenses, I happen to know that the Sparrow’s Nest thrift store recently received a shipment of one hundred wedding dresses. Come on, David Orr! Come on, Cook County! Time to step up to the plate. Think on the camp potential there, ladies and ladies…
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Dolor y tristeza para Madrid. Amor y espera a Madrid. Todo el mundo contigo, Madrid. No puedo decirlo in Espanol, puedo la palabra en Italiano es: “Coraggio.”
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It appears Al Franken is a little closer to bringing his talk/satirical commentary show to the talk-radio airwaves – supposedly a 31MAR start date for broadcasts from Chicago (yay!) and a few other cities. In the mean time, This Is The Shit has reserved a nice domain for him. And Sue Ellicott is involved – isn’t she the one on “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” who never wins the news quiz, but always has a funny answer anyway? This could be fun. Now Al – Please, please, please make it available via the Internet. And please not using Real Networks…
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Has anyone ever sat down with a terrorist and asked them “why?” What was the answer? How could anything so horrific as bombing commuter trains, or blowing up embassies, or shooting children in the back from a safe distance possibly be justified? Maybe Danny Pearl tried, and look what happened to him. How could acts of carnage be for the glory of God, or the glory of one’s homeland, or the glory of political ideology? It’s not glory at all, but infamy. The world turns its attention, briefly, to this tragedy. Unfortunately, the entire planet is afflicted with ADD and…