Got up, eventually, or at least became conscious while listening to :NPR’s “Sunday Edition.” For some reason my dreams were all mixed up with some college basketball team’s woeful performance in a tournament. In the dream I was telling one of the players that they were an embarassment to dream about and they needed to hustle, hustle, hustle the ball more. I don’t even like basketball, what was that all about? Okay. Needed coffee soon after that. David brought some up (he often does that on weekend mornings, the little muffin) and found something to wear and toddled off to…
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Another entry to the England trip journal is now posted under the September archives. It covers the last day or two in London before departing for the Cotswolds. In looking over the diary entries again after several months’ rumination time, I’m convinced we didn’t spend enough time in the Cotswolds, and spent too much time trying to cover too much ground. Next trip, we’re planning on going back to the Cotswolds with a car, so that we can get into the little villages and do a lot more walking in between. So beautiful there.
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We actually got out of the house and went cross-country skiing, just as we planned. Amazing! There’s this place that’s not in the house called the “outdoors,” and we were in it for a while. Conditions weren’t totally ideal (it could have been about 5 or 10 degrees colder, the snow was a bit sticky in the tracks) but it wasn’t bad. We went to the forest preserve/ bike path loop nearest us, and there was just enough snow base to ski on, but not quite enough to make you forget that you were skiing on an asphalt path. I…
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We’re dragging out the cross-country ski stuff to get out and play in the snow today. No promises as to how long it’ll be, we’re getting a typically late start. I’m almost done with another England trip journal entry, just have a few more photos to add in at the end. Should be posted tonight. Ta-ra! We’re off to fall down a lot and get frustrated with having boards stuck on our feet!
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I was scanning various websites the other day and ran across something that just struck me funny from a copyright lawyer that had done some work for Penthouse magazine and its’ sister publications: As an attorney for the Penthouse magazine empire in the mid 1990s, I launched a war against cyberspace dwellers who, without authorization, used photographic images of the Penthouse Pets and models on their web pages. There were literally thousands of web sites posting Penthouse-copyrighted images scanned from Penthouse magazine and its numerous sister publications. Finding Penthouse-owned pictures required some hands-on investigative work. Uh – okay, Counselor, thanks…
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Whoa – Mythbusters is hiring! Note: A weekly salary commensurate with the position will be paid to the successful applicant during shoot periods. You mean… you get to do all that and get PAID, too? The only episode I’ve seen so far is the “Chicken Gun/Killer Washer” one, and already I’m hooked. Surely I know someone who could apply for this job. Wait… via Highlander fandom, I probably do.
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See, this quiz just laid out for me why I don’t watch horror movies, but at least I pass the test! Yay, me. 😉 (also found at ***Dave’s) Would you survive a horror movie? Find out @ She’s Crafty
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Well, this is a bit disappointing – according to an interview with BBC News World Edition, Patrick Stewart’s a bit of a “wet blanket” about space travel. (via ***Dave Does the Blog) He and others raise a valid point – “let’s solve the problems of this world first before venturing away from it” – but still it’s hard to hear this commentary coming from the man that inspired the newsgroup alt.sexy.bald.captains “I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilisations out on to other planets – even though…
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Hmm. Various free/cheap Web graphics programs. I think I might qualify for some of these under the “Photoshop makes me break out in hives” rubric. Last night? Why, yes, there was hairpulling and swearing involved with my last tussle with Photoshop. 😉
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From Chicago NBC Channel 5’s Weather page… Thursday: Winter Weather Advisory through tomorrow morning…Cloudy, breezy and cold this morning, light snow developing this afternoon, increasing to a steady snow this evening. Highs in the upper 20s. Winds E 15-25mph. Thursday night: Heavy snow tapers to light snow mixed with some freezing drizzle, windy and cold. Lows in the mid 20s. Friday: Storm totals between 4 to 8 inches by 8:00AM. More light snow expected through the day, windy and cold. Highs in the upper 20s. Saturday: Cloudy with light snow or flurries mainly in the morning, partial clearing in the…