Take one guess where I am for the new year?
Home for the holiday.
Friday, December 28, 2007
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Merry, Uh...
Simply and unapologetically un-PC: Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
And for you more open-minded friends, PC: Please accept with no obligation, implied or explicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2008, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere. Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee.
HT: Bogie
Monday, December 24, 2007
Hall and Oats - It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
A moving version of a classic by the blue-eyed soul duo. From Home For Christmas, 2005.
HT: To Kat from Keep the Coffee Coming
HT: To Kat from Keep the Coffee Coming
Friday, December 21, 2007
Whatever will they think up next?Thursday, December 20, 2007
The "Stare"
Heard on NPR this morning:
"Thompson's determined stare is the cornerstone of his campaign. It's one of the reasons Julie Schmidt thinks he looks presidential... (Quote by Schmidt)
"Thompson delivers the authenticity alright. Near the end of the speech he leans into the crowd, and then Thompson gives that stare...(Live quote by Thompson that he would be a better starer on the other side of the table with a bad guy)...
Reported by Robert Smith
I wonder if this reporter heard about the Thompson stare being the cornerstone of this campaign from the campaign itself? Hah!
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Eat More Chips, Save the Planet
Force the obese to give their fair share for the cause. And you thought diesel exhaust smells noxious? Just wait.
HT: Drudge
Cuckoo for Coco Puffs and Kinky for Candy Bars?
I have a very difficult time seeing the humor (or anything else) about this supposed ad campaign in New Zealand by the Mars candy company.
Is it just me or just too weird?
Let me know what you think.
I might just eat my M&Ms plain from now on, thank you very much. And a Snickers Bar will never quite be the same to me anymore.
It all begins here.
HT: Grow A Brain
Is it just me or just too weird?
Let me know what you think.
I might just eat my M&Ms plain from now on, thank you very much. And a Snickers Bar will never quite be the same to me anymore.
It all begins here.
HT: Grow A Brain
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
The Golden Suicides - Juicy!
When Theresa Duncan, 40, took her own life on July 10, followed a week later by her boyfriend, Jeremy Blake, 35, their friends were stunned and the press was fascinated: what had destroyed this glamorous couple, stars of New York’s multi-media art world, still madly in love after 12 years? January 08 Article from Vanity Fair, the People Magazine for sophisticates.
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Kenny Loggins - Some Children See Him
From Loggins' December album, 1998.
Love this song!
Some children see Him lily white,the baby Jesus born this night.Some children see Him lily white,with tresses soft and fair.Some children see Him bronzed and brown,The Lord of heav'n to earth come down.
Some children see Him bronzed and brown,with dark and heavy hair. Some children see Him almond-eyed,this Savior whom we kneel beside. Some children see Him almond-eyed,with skin of yellow hue.Some children see Him dark as they,sweet Mary's Son to whom we pray.
Some children see him dark as they,and, ah! they love Him, too! The children in each different place will see the baby Jesus' facelike theirs, but bright with heavenly grace,and filled with holy light.
O lay aside each earthly thingand with thy heart as offering,come worship now the infant King.'Tis love that's born tonight!
by Wihla Hutson & Alfred S. Burt (1951).
Friday, December 14, 2007
"Your Monkey" Is Scaring Me
"It’s time to sell your books when it’s less painful to just re-buy it on Amazon than go down to the basement and dig it out. " Source here.
Many of my books happen to be in the attic and I'd have to get them down to sell them, and then they'd be down, so I'd have them, then I wouldn't have to buy duplicates from Amazon, then I wouldn't have to sell them... then..
(The mad mental-ambling of a book addict.)
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Speed Viewing An NFL Game
The wife will love you all over again if you did this for an hour on Sundays instead of...
Time-lapse photography at Vikings-Packers game. Very cool. Waste 2 minutes with me, will ya?
Time-lapse photography at Vikings-Packers game. Very cool. Waste 2 minutes with me, will ya?
"Streaky"
A minister one posed this question to a class of children: "If all the good people were black and all the bad people were white, what color would you be?" Little Suzie answered, "I'd be streaky!"
A man was looking for a good church to join, and he was shopping around. One Sunday he entered a church as the people and minister were reading from their prayer book. They were saying, "We have left undone the things which we ought to have done, and we have done the things which we ought not to have done." The man sighed with relief and said to himself, "At last I have found my kind of people."
December 13 from: Letting God: Christian Meditations for Recovering People by A. Philip Parham
A man was looking for a good church to join, and he was shopping around. One Sunday he entered a church as the people and minister were reading from their prayer book. They were saying, "We have left undone the things which we ought to have done, and we have done the things which we ought not to have done." The man sighed with relief and said to himself, "At last I have found my kind of people."
December 13 from: Letting God: Christian Meditations for Recovering People by A. Philip Parham
The Latest: Holy Drinking Water
For that extra lift. Hocus Pocus is alive and well and living in the recesses of marketers brains.You just can't make this stuff up! Story here.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Meet the Roloffs
Give yourself a treat and watch "Little People, Big World" on The Learning Channel (TLC). It's wonderful for lots of reasons. See for yourself.
Monday, December 10, 2007
The Care and Feeding of Geeks
Inc. magazine has an interesting article on managing the "technically robust" employees that exist in IT areas these days. The Smoking Gun Pointed at Rudy
"Records first reported by Politico.com last month showed repeated trips between 1999 and 2002 to Long Island, where Nathan had a condominium. Giuliani's first trip was from Aug. 31 to Sept. 1, 1999 - months before he acknowledged the breakdown of his second marriage in the spring of 2000.
"Security costs for those trips were charged to agencies like the New York City Loft Board, which regulates loft apartments and was billed $34,000. The Office for People with Disabilities was charged $10,000, while the Assigned Counsel Administrative Office, which provides lawyers for indigent defendants, was charged roughly $400,000.
"Asked whether it would be appropriate for a president to provide taxpayer-funded security for a mistress, Giuliani said it would not. But he said "that isn't the right way to analyze it" in his case.
"The reality is it all came about because of my public position," Giuliani said. "The New York city police department has rules, they apply the rules. They apply it exactly the same way as they always apply it."
"I did not make the judgment. I didn't ask for it. Judith didn't particularly want it," he said. "It was done because they took the view that it was serious and that it had to be done this way."
Why weren't these things charged simply to mayoral security? Period.
He should leave the race now. This appears to be flat out fraud.
Entire article here.
"Security costs for those trips were charged to agencies like the New York City Loft Board, which regulates loft apartments and was billed $34,000. The Office for People with Disabilities was charged $10,000, while the Assigned Counsel Administrative Office, which provides lawyers for indigent defendants, was charged roughly $400,000.
"Asked whether it would be appropriate for a president to provide taxpayer-funded security for a mistress, Giuliani said it would not. But he said "that isn't the right way to analyze it" in his case.
"The reality is it all came about because of my public position," Giuliani said. "The New York city police department has rules, they apply the rules. They apply it exactly the same way as they always apply it."
"I did not make the judgment. I didn't ask for it. Judith didn't particularly want it," he said. "It was done because they took the view that it was serious and that it had to be done this way."
Why weren't these things charged simply to mayoral security? Period.
He should leave the race now. This appears to be flat out fraud.
Entire article here.
Thursday, December 06, 2007
Bali - Wondermints
There is a method to my madness. "Luxury for Them, Serfdom for You"
From their 2000 output called Bali.
From their 2000 output called Bali.
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Blog As I Might...
From my last post, it has become more than clear that there is no hope for this blog, or anything else for that matter.
Hopelessness has even been flowcharted. You can dispute parts of it, but there is plenty to despair about too.
Enjoy!!!!!
Hopelessness has even been flowcharted. You can dispute parts of it, but there is plenty to despair about too.
Enjoy!!!!!
Monday, December 03, 2007
Thugo Skunked
Our friend in Caracas lost his bid for president for life. It was good to see that he respected the vote. Have to see what his Plan B is.
More info from a blogger with a front row seat: "In spite of all the obscene governmental advantage, all the threats and blackmails, the Venezuelan people found the strength to say NO."
More info from a blogger with a front row seat: "In spite of all the obscene governmental advantage, all the threats and blackmails, the Venezuelan people found the strength to say NO."
Saturday, December 01, 2007
Mad Men
If you are a Soprano's fan, you could easily become a Mad Men fan. Great period T.V.
Belly up to the bar, in your office. Madison Avenue shenanigans circa 1960.
Looking for a guilty pleasure? Check your local listings.
