• Dear Mom - Photos and Shutterblogs - The Never-Ending Bloga

    Purty Gurl

    This is just a test post with perks: I get to see if Image Manager by Per Søderlind solves my little problem with IE not being able to show the WordPress image uploader. And it does, so nana-nana-booboo, Mr. Gates. My readers (all seven of you!) get to see my great-niece, Alexa. All snowy and cute. And perky. And it works! The crowd goes wild. Extended geeky navel-gazing follows… I had been somewhat puzzled by the fact that at home, I could upload images via either the WordPress built-in uploader, or via ecto, but I could not upload images while at work.…

  • Food, Glorious Food - Health And Fitness - Today

    Food Journal

    Breakfast: banana, coffeeSnack: noneLunch: 60 cal yogurt drink, 240 cal Oatmeal walnut Clif energy bar, yet another banana As you can see, it's a gnarly bar. Dinner: Penne Crodola from Babaluci. Some added Parmesan. Kind of a lot, really. It's been a long day.  

  • Mini-Posts - Politics, Schmolitics

    Global Warming in from the Cold!

    AP Wire | 01/30/2007 | Panel hears climate 'spin' allegations WASHINGTON – Federal scientists have been pressured to play down global warming, advocacy groups testified Tuesday at the Democrats' first investigative hearing since taking control of Congress. It's good to have a Congress capable of doing its job: investigating the issues and providing oversight. And yes, you WH pinheads, global warming is fact, not fiction.

  • Dear Mom - Food, Glorious Food - Health And Fitness - Today

    Brr. Brr. Brr. Yum. Yum. Yum.

    January 30 Each dawn is a new beginning. Breakfast: small bowl of muesli and dried cranberries, milk Snack: Energy Rx juice drink product whatchamajigger. Hey, it’s mango juice AND caffeine! I read the ingredients! Lunch: Slimfast, granola bar, 1 piece string cheese (I hate how the cafeteria closes before I can even get there) Dinner: Shrimp fried rice (veggies and egg also, leftovers for lunch tomorrow) Workout: 25 minutes on recumbent bike at lunch I didn’t work out yesterday at all – still too sore from my last session with the trainer. I did, however, get in and ride a…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Rats! I’m Philip Jose’ Farmer

    I am: Philip José Farmer This prolific author brings surprising depths to he-man adventure tales, and broke science fiction’s prudery barrier. Which science fiction writer are you? This is all very well, but I was shooting for either Keith Laumer, Alexei Panshin, James M. Tiptree., or C.J. Cherryh. As seen at DDtB.

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Happy Feet and a Half Rack at the All Night Strut

    The All Night Strut We went to see the latest offering in our season ticket series at the Marriott Lincolnshire Theater – and like many times before went in not knowing what to expect, and came out smiling. “All Night Strut” is a revue – it’s one of those pastiche shows with a lot of songs, a lot of dancing, and no plot, story, or structure to get in the way. It’s framed by vignettes with a clown figure called “Coda,” who introduces the show, plays around with lights, music, and dancers, and gets up to gently amusing mischief. Here’s…

  • Mini-Posts - The Life of Riley

    Riley’s Self Image

    Riley looks just like this when he's grabbed his favorite boingy-boingy toy in his mouth and tries to walk off with it before getting pulled back by the elastic cord. Just now David was playing with him upstairs and we had a case of "wacky cat" right on the bed. Riley went completely spazzy for the toy, and we were lounging at either end of it just laughing hysterically at him. Then he collided with the laptop and decamped for the relative safety of the floor. Funny little kitty!