Apparently, we “super-size” it Amerkins were too enthusiastic about bellying up to the bar for another bucket of lobster: Yahoo! News – Red Lobster to Trim All-You-Can-Eat Deals. David and Steve will be somewhat disappointed about this – we did our bit to cut into the Crimson Crustacean’s profit margin on a number of memorable occasions.
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Air America Radio’s website launch is supposedly this week. The schedule and roster have been posted, but there’s not much else at this site yet (and indeed, they still need a better domain). It’s a very weird thing, but I’ve had over a hundred hits on variations on Al Franken’s name this month, up from a big whoppin’ 6 last month. On the other hand, I’ve had 18 hits on what can only be described as fanfic from the fevered mind of Julia Child, if she were a hobbit: “orlando bloom and alton brown.” Whoever it is, they’re probably looking…
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Thursdays. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. It’s been one of those weeks thus far – my team leader was out sick all of Monday and Tuesday, which put me in the “acting team leader” hotseat. I don’t do much other than walk past her desk to check the call-monitoring display to see if anyone needs a reminder to go on break or to lunch in order to adhere more closely to their schedule. It’s a benign way of checking up on people, but soulless and somewhat degrading to have your entire worklife revolve around your ability to…
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One of the stated purposes (purpoi?) of this blog is that it’s a collection of random-access memories – a purpose that’s been sadly neglected of late. Howerver, I’ve got some doozies that came back to me all in a rush, because they’re topical, today being what it is (or was, by now). In the bad old pre-David days, when I was still living the carefree, (bored) bachelorette (lonely) (anti-social) life in Seattle, I used to go out occasionally for holidays like St Patrick’s Day. There are a lot of Irish bars in Seattle, and I lived within walking distance of…
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Something tells me I might need to have quick access to some of these feeds from The Feed Room I spent a lot of time looking at raw feeds (not live) there during the first couple of weeks of the war. There’s been a lot of breaking news in the last few days, and I don’t have good access to news at work unless I walk into the break room where the TV lives. On the other hand, I watched the fall of several statues in Baghdad “live” right here on this computer at work, and also watched a news…
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Yeah, it’s Green Day in America, as in “wearin’ o’ the.” The resident Irish lass on the team, who has red hair and has an Irish surname AND maiden name (and was married at Old St Pat’s, a Chicago landmark) is wearing o’ the green. Various people who aren’t Irish are a wearin’ o’ the green. Since we’re at work, nobody has started in on the pukin’ o’ the green, but it’s early yet.
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Okay, why do I as a non-technogeek (I am merely the moll or sheila to a technogeek) think this is way damn cool: Testing Begins & More Info about 3.0 03.16.2004 We’re taking our first steps towards the release of Movable Type 3.0. The pre-beta version has just finished its initial two rounds of alpha testing and we’re now opening the testing to a larger audience (we’ve picked 300 random addresses from those who applied and will be adding more as time progresses). The testing that we’re conducting will not only help ensure a stable final release but will also…
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Okay, so Accordion Guy made me do it. BlogPolling Voting System seems simple enough, but for a doofus like me? Actually, I’ve been asking David to set up polls for me, but it was pretty far down on the list of to-dos around here recently. So this may be the way for me to go, since I got good results from using both Blogrolling and Bloglines. Yep – that’s the Amerkin way – outsource it! Let’s give it a shot… Well, I’ve got the right style elements working, but the radio buttons don’t show up once they’ve been clicked. Hmm.…
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From Yahoo News: W.House Calls on Kerry to Reveal Names of Leaders I have to admit (gah!) that they have a point. It does sound a little too much like “the lurkers support me in email.”
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Obesity too widespread to go without attention Probably a good thing that there’s no accompanying picture. If there had been, this might have ended up on Leno.