I ran across Alton Brown’s Rants & Raves! earlier today. Love that show. LOVE that show. Mostly because AB offers solid advice about cooking, techniques, gear, and has a quirky visual style that makes it all look like fun. What scares me is that some people watch Alton for Alton. And some compare him (favorably? Unfavorably? to Orlando Bloom, international Elven heartthrob). And now I have a mential image of Alton Brown wearing tights and baking brownies. Please, Mommy, make the pictures stop. 😉 (must fight images. Must go to my happy tuna steak with wasabi place. )
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Well, we’ll try this again – I wanted to have the index page display the flags and countries of visitors, but apparently all the plug-in can do is display flag and town/city, meaning a whole bunch of American flags, some Canadian, a fewBritish, and other countries’ flags in descending order. Yes, yes, I know that a good chunk of the “visitors” are either robots or spammers, but whats the hey, ya? I’d still really rather have just the one flag per country represented. Oh, well. I’m working on the next couple of entries for the travel journal (JEEZ, this is…
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Here’s what was under today’s fractalicious Google nameplate: http://www.google.com/images?q=gaston+julia I always enjoy the fun Google has with commemorating holidays and events with its nameplate graphics. I wonder who the designers are? A Musical Group I’d Really Like To Hear: Reptile Palace Orchestra This group contains one of the only Balkan rock cellists in the world – possibly THE only Balkan rock cellists: Seth Blair The band’s bio tries to explain it all, but I think I’ll have to buy a CD on faith. Seth Blair used to appear every year at Seattle’s Folk Life Festival, and my friends and I…
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I have this feeling that choir practice will be cancelled again tonight. They Who Must Be Obeyed (a loose conglomeration of older ladies who really run things) usually cancel if there’s a light dusting of snow (the “coverlet for a hobbit’s toes” kind). I can’t blame them – if one of them fell, it could be catastrophic. Our previous vicar was from Virginia and never did get hardened off to winter, ice, snow, and that sort of thing, but she’s moved back there now and no longer has to deal with the issue of “to cancel or not” when the…
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Oh, I’ll try it. Signed up for a few communities. Can’t bring myself to contact anyone and invite them (isssh! isssh! Social anxiety! Isssh!). It was amusing getting a teaser but, hey, it was from my husband. I’m really glad I don’t feel the need to use the service for dating. 3 Questions Orkut Never Asked: Does your mom think you need to get out more? Are you a convicted felon? If yes, discuss Can you provide a note from your doctor? If no, we don’t want to know. There’re some fun communities in the “other” category. There was at…
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Because my workmates know that I have a computer at home, I’m the unofficial computer support person for my team. Why is this? Maybe I need to get one of those “No, I will not fix your computer” shirts after all. doG knows, I could use it. I frequently have to help people re-set their screens because they dragged the mouse over a window, and they can’t figure out what happened to their “working area.” I also help people very, very often with “my blinky is stuck!” type questions. An all-time favorite request I get: “My little one did something…
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Some more photos that my sister Timmy sent, mostly taken by my dad. Most of them appear to be taken when we lived in Albuquerque in the early 60’s I was an early reader and fan of the comics I was also a good eater, but sometimes required help I was quite a snappy dresser, and also a rocker girl But being without the blannie filled me with desolation and despair. And yes, Mom still has the blannie.
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There’s a new biography of Douglas Adams out that I’ll have to buy later: Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams, by M.J. Simpson> I happened to hear an interview with M.J. Simpson on this morning’s Sunday Edition on :NPR; I’m so glad I heard it. Somewhere behind me in one of the ‘move to Chicago from Seattle’ boxes that never got unpacked, I’ve got the BBC Radiophonic Workshop cassette version of “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” I listened to every episode as it was broadcast on my college :NPR station, I bought all the books, I bought the fourth and…