Travel is such a broadening experience. Especially when you eat as much good food and drink as much good wine (well, not that much, really) as we did. Plus, the mud helped sweat some of the toxins out of our bodies, or so we like to tell ourselves. And it certainly helps to give us new perspectives on life (at first this image was loaded sideways – almost left it that way). Anyway, the images will soon be loaded in a new album in my gallery. They will include some rather scary mudbath pictures as well as pictures of Steve…
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Yo, my husband David, here’s that link for getting the rich text editor buttons to work in Mozilla on the bookmarklet popup
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SEATTLE, Aug 18 (Reuters) – A black bear was found passed out at a campground in Washington state recently after guzzling down three dozen cans of a local beer, a campground worker said on Wednesday. Why, do you ask? This story will probably explain why the news of the bear on a beer binge rain with the header “Raaaaaaaiiiii-neeeeeeeeeiiiirrrrrr-beeeeeeeeeaaaaarrrrrrr.” Yep, drink a lot of Rainiers, pass out amongst the empties, become fodder for a photo op. Good times.
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BBC NEWS | Americas | US children ‘abandoned in Africa’ An adoptive mother of 7 abandons her kids in Nigeria and heads to Iraq to work as a private contractor. Even I don’t hate kids that much.
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Alton Brown on the passing of Julia Child: She gave birth to the modern American cook, to TV cooks, and one might argue, American food in general. She was and always will be our Queen Mother and our den mother, a perfect blend of fun, passion, style and knowledge all wrapped up in a willing self-depreciation that made us all feel a little better about dropping that chicken on the floor. Oh, God, don’t remind me of the chicken on the floor incident. Oops. Heh.
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Heh! PVP’s got a good gag going about LARP – live action roleplay. Come to think of it, in the gag commercial for Atlantis with the people “auditioning,” the one guy in the homemade Jaffa armor has a “realistic foam latex” staff weapon. Must remember to point that out to David next time.
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Hey, if it’s Tuesday, this must be Severe Thunderstorm Warning Bug night on TV! Every week, 2 minutes into TAR, it’s the SAME goddamn thing. At least the local affiliate knows better now than to interrupt the show with stupid storm warnings that I just have to ignore as hard as I can. This may not be a good policy on my part, especially if a tornado sneaks up on me from behind. Fortunately, the basement is nearby, and I could still watch the show on the new TV card software David has on his computer down here (snicker). Yeah,…
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Steve! No! We don’t want to buy one! We don’t care how good a deal it is! We won’t use one as a coffee table in the Underground Lair O’ Computers until one of us kicks the bucket! Honest! On Monday, Costco Wholesale Corp., better known for bulk chicken and cases of soda, started test marketing caskets along side mattresses at a North Side Chicago store and one in suburban Oak Brook. Nope. Don’t care if that’s your Costco. We’re not doing it. So don’t even try IMing me with attractive price quotes in a variety of decorator colors.
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Yeah, kind of a depressing item from a disgruntled Canadian journalist who got stuck with the “Who Is Rance” beat. The fun of Rance was always in reading Rance’s writing, not in reading words from people who used to read Rance. Yadda yadda blah blah meow meow… hey!! Is that a cut? That’s a cut! Oooh, the ll’il impertinence! But… he does have a point. I guess. And so the online whirligig slowly revolving to an end, in spite of the promises of the Administrative Staff that Rance his own bad self will be posting in a few days. Sure,…
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Most developers are morons, and the rest are assholes. I have at various times counted myself in both groups, so I can say this with the utmost confidence. I enjoyed reading this earlier today, but David might enjoy it even more.