• Uncategorical Weirdness

    Lovely Lav View

    February 14, 2009 - By 

    UPDATE: We had good seats in United’s “Economy Plus” section, only because we paid $69 each to “upgrade.” A further request for a REAL upgrade to First Class was shot down at the gate podium; it no longer matters to the airlines that travel agents are salesperson capable of steering business their way. Ah well, there are ways and ways to get what we want. More after our return trip. This flight was otherwise pleasant, with 3 movies (2 Southern black-white chick bonding movies, 1 Northern crazy white man demands justice movie). Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title:…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    DO NOT PANIC

    February 13, 2009 - By 

    Photo of window display in bank shows local financial paper with screamer: "DO NOT PANIC" Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: DO NOT PANIC By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 13 Feb ’09, 12.55pm CST PST

  • Books - Geek Out! - Parish: Holy Moly (ECUSA) - Politics, Schmolitics

    Reviews: The Language Of God, Inherit The Wind, Frost/Nixon

    February 1, 2009 - By 

    I started reading this book, but set it aside a while back. Now I need to get back into it, because we’re starting to get to some meaty stuff in the Adult Forum group I’m in at church. We’re discussing Evolution, Creationism Intelligent Design, and whether science and religion are as incompatible as some say. It’s a pretty free-ranging discussion group, as one member studied philosophy, another is a scholarly Jewish guy who runs the program, and the rest of us bring our own take to the party. For instance, I have a background or interest in evolution, paleontology, anthropology,…

  • The Never-Ending Bloga

    Using Amazon with WP 2.7

    February 1, 2009 - By 

    My former handy plugin for inserting images and product information from Amazon into my blog stopped working with the upgrade to WordPress 2.7. I’ve been floundering since then, putting off posting book reviews and such because it was such a pain pulling in the Amazon images of the right size, without all the extra little bits (like “SALE” and “Click To Look Inside!”) that seemed to be added separately. Well, this post explained a lot of what was going on in Amazon images, although I only “got” the gist of it (trust me, not that technical here). But it seemed…

  • Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    Helluva Week, Governor Quinn!

    January 30, 2009 - By 

    A huge sigh of relief went up as news commentators and pundits everywhere realized they wouldn’t have to try to pronounce or spell “Blagojevich” so much any more. Wow, what just happened? There was so much stuff going on this week, and I never really sat down in the evenings to sum up. Actually, the last two weeks have been pretty hectic, what with all the Washington hoopla last week, and the Springfield hoopla this week. The former was an occasion of great and redemptive joy, and the latter was an occasionally redemptive embarassment. Srsly, G-Rod? STHU! Although, I will…

  • Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    Blago Running Late For His Own Impeachment

    January 29, 2009 - By 

    The embattled and embarrasing Guv is making his way to Springfield. He left his house at 825am and was reportedly driving down, flying back. The House prosecutor arguing the case in the Illinois Senate begins his closing argument in a few minutes, at 10am. Blago will not even be there for it. How ballsy-rude is that? If he’s really driving all the way and not flying, he’s already more than an hour late. Here we go. Judge Fitzgerald will gavel the session to order after the invocation and the Pledge of Allegiance. Resolutions being offered. Chief Justice brings the Senate…