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    Some kind of arrest going on….2 loud reports

    June 19, 2008 - By 

    I was awakened just now by a very loud, highly amplified announcement: “[FirstName LastName], This is the [MyTown] Police Department. We need you to answer the phone, and come to the door with your hands in the air. You are under arrest.” Sometimes they vary it by adding the street address, and adding “we are not going away.” This started at some time before 5am, and it’s been going on for at least 10 or 15 minutes. It repeats and repeats, almost like a recorded announcement, quite calmly. I got up and looked to make sure that no cop car…

  • Blogs Wot I Read - Clan: McTiVo

    Who And Where In The World Is Klaus Pierre?

    June 18, 2008 - By 

    The posts that went up on BoingBoing’s “BBtv” section started early this year: this crazy French-German guy was trying to become the next big American action hero. But who was he? Really? Here’s the most recent BBtv video: BBtv – Klaus Pierre: Super Pretty Action Hero Star – Boing Boing There are links to earlier videos, and then if you search YouTube there are other videos, uploaded by the great Klaus Pierre himself. Some of them are very puzzling, as they are completely in French. What? you mean he’s really FRENCH? Intriguing. And then the profile points to his website,…

  • The Never-Ending Bloga

    Tinkering around

    June 18, 2008 - By 

    Just fooling with the time/date stamp. UPDATE: Hmm! I just figured something out. I thought I couldn’t update drafts started via WordPress in Linear (formerly ecto) because WP’s time/date stamps place drafts infinitely deep in my archives, lost in time and space. However, if I at least edit the Publish On date (I picked a time a minute before the creation time) the post shows up on Linear’s list of “published” posts, although it’s still a draft as far as WordPress is concerned. Which is more like the way it used to behave before WP2.5, when the same function was called…

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    A Test Of One’s Own Google Reader Shared Items

    June 18, 2008 - By 

    Recently, Dave over at DDtB noted that Google Reader’s shared items can scroll off one’s web page widget pretty quickly, but that it set up a fairly nice unordered list if you copied it off the widget for further commentary on your blog. And so it does, especially if you choose Paste Special > Remove MS Word formatting, which also removes Mozilla- and Google-added style elements. This is handy if you have a number of links grouped together and want to grab them for a quick omnibus post. Not so easy if they’ve already scrolled off the widget and are on either your…

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    McCain Voters Have An Image Problem

    June 15, 2008 - By 

    Namely, this one: Are they really all white, older, infirm, and completely dead to the world? I’d have wondered if this were a Photoshop job, but there’s a natural looking curve in the one guy’s sign, and you can see the edge of another held by the guy behind him. The walker is just icing on the cake. h/t One Utah » Blog Archive » McCain’s America, previously from Bob Casca’s Goddamn Awesome Blog.

  • Today

    Rainy Sunday Redux: Staying Out of the Weather

    June 15, 2008 - By 

    Chicago weather from the Chicago Tribune. Including Tom Skilling 7 day local weather forecast. WGN-TV and the Chicago Tribune — chicagotribune.com Weather Severe Thunderstorm Watch in IL: Cook , DeKalb , DuPage , Grundy , Kane , Kankakee , Kendall , Lee , Ogle , Will , Winnebago Severe Thunderstorm Warning in IL: Cook , DuPage , Will Flood Warning in IL: Henry , Jo Daviess , Kane , Lake , McHenry , Mercer , Ogle , Rock Island , Stephenson , Whiteside , Winnebago Flash Flood Watch in IL: Mercer , Rock Island A few moments ago lightning struck…

  • Health And Fitness - Today

    Rainy Sunday

    June 15, 2008 - By 

    Good thing we got out to Morton Arboretum yesterday, it looks like it’ll rain all day today. We even got on the bikes to ride one of the loops although I had trouble downshifting. On the way down we listened to Car Talk and I actually submitted an answer to this week’s Puzzler via my trusty iPhone. I know why the cement mixer will get a quicker start than the dump truck, do you? Yeah, another post by iPhone. Lately it seems I use Google Reader to stay current and they recently added the ability to add notes to the…