It’s really bassackward of me, but I’ve never read Neil Gaiman’s fiction. I’ve only read his blog. I keep thinking that I need to rectify this sad lapse on my part, based on how he writes about his activities and the little things that make modern life bearable. Such as glow-in-the-dark 256MB rubber ducky USB storage devices. They exist; they are described as “somewhat less sinister ducks” in Mr. Gaiman’s blog entry. Somewhat less sinister than what? Mergansers? Canada geese? Hawaiian nene? There are always Canada geese lurking on the corporate parklands that dot my part of the Chicago suburbs.…
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Last night, I got a weird comment on the post about the woman who was fired for taking a picture of coffins in a cargo hold. The comment consisted of a link to a site called “thememoryhole.” I couldn’t figure out what it was about, because the site wouldn’t load (there was probably too much traffic on his site already. Anyway, it looked like a spam link, so I deleted it. Turns out The Memory Hole broke open a big story. Apparently, he or someone else posted links to a lot of blogs that had copies of the picture of…
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Via Boing Boing: Bill O’Reilly mistakes Globe and Mail for Socialist Worker Oopsie!1! Oh, I hope I’m the first Majority Reporter to post this in the comment thread. The Glob and Male as a communiss rag… this particular columnist, too. Oh, that’s rich. Al will get such a kick out of it, too. Better send it to his blog as well. I’ve never been called “a douche-nozzle” before. At least, not that I know about anyway. The insult came from one supporter of the Fox News Channel. But then I don’t think The Globe and Mail has ever been called…
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A military contractor has fired Tami Silicio, a Kuwait-based cargo worker whose photograph of flag-draped coffins of fallen U.S. soldiers was published in Sunday’s edition of The Seattle Times. Silicio was let go yesterday for violating U.S. government and company regulations, said William Silva, president of Maytag Aircraft, the contractor that employed Silicio at Kuwait International Airport. “I feel like I was hit in the chest with a steel bar and got my wind knocked out. I have to admit I liked my job, and I liked what I did,” Silicio said. Her photograph, taken earlier this month, shows more…
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I went to Ask Peeves today and found that my work firewall won’t let me access the site, probably because it has naughty langwidge. Langwidge!! Suffice to say, I’m peeved today. It’s Take Yer Sprog To Work Day The air conditioning is blowing Reekette’s stale tobacco funk in my face This makes my chest tight, my eyes water, and of course there’s coughing and sneezing too Didn’t bother to bring inhaler or nasey-poof spray because allergies had improved I forgot I was supposed to dress up today because of a visiting VIP I ran late Placeholder for a peeve to…
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There is no rest for the dead, and there is apparently no privacy for the dying – if you’re famous, that is. CBS: this is disgusting, shameful, and beneath the dignity of a Big Three network. Diana, Princess of Wales, has been dead nearly 7 years. She was literally hounded to death by the newsies, and they’re still picking her bones for a story. Yeah, I’m touchy on the subject of Diana. Like many women my age and thereabouts, I was a “fan” of sorts – I consumed stories about her like mad when she first showed up on the…
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Right. I’m disorganized and easily distracted. That much should be obvious to anyone that stumbles across this site looking for plumbing or flooring help. The design (or lack thereof) and scattershot categories speak volumes. So today I went looking for helpful websites, because in the last couple of years I’ve concluded that I probably have some form of ADD, which was never diagnosed when I was young. And I thought I might find some new information, because there aren’t that many studies or books published on ADD/ADHD in adult women or girls as of yet. And this is what I…
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FOOD 5.2 MOBILITY 0.7 SHELTER 7.4 GOODS/SERVICES 5.4 TOTAL FOOTPRINT 19 (in acres) IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 24 ACRES PER PERSON. WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 4.5 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE ACRES PER PERSON. IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 4.2 PLANETS. via Pale Blue Dot I know that we could do better than 19 acres per person just around the house. David drives a lot farther to work each day; his acreage is higher than mine. The fact that we don’t have kids is another factor that reduces our footprint – we don’t have any…
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Rob gets a call that his cousin William has lost a leg while stationed in Iraq. He goes to Andrews Air Force Base to meet the plane at 2 a.m. Why 2 a.m.? Ssssh!
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Experts figure perhaps 70 Utah women a year terminate their pregnancies due to fatal fetal deformities. In most cases, doctors induce labor early to terminate the pregnancy. Doctors are horrified at the options they now will have to present to those traumatized women. And they are angry at lawmakers who they say patched together problematic legislation to make a political statement in an election year. “It’s such a politically volatile issue because the word abortion is in there,” said one Wasatch Front obstetrician who wanted to remain anonymous. “The representatives who passed this law did not understand the repercussions of…