There are pockets of insane sanity in Utah – some of them are served by KRCL. I ran across the station one sleepless night on a trip “home” to Utah, at a pre-David time of my life when I’d end up sleeping in my old room at Mom’s house. There was usually a moment (usually late at night) when I’d start scanning for a radio station that sounded like it wasn’t based in Utah (translation: liberal politics, flexible musical format). And so I found KRCL, which intrigued me. It’s typical for a small :NPR station in the mountain states –…
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…can a polygamist group run a mine and opress Latino coal miners with an almost comical disregard for labor laws:Salt Lake City Weekly – Coal-Miners’ Blues
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Just ran across this in Digital Tavern – a huge fire in Moscow, just after the election polls closed.
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Yesterday was from hell, but in a good cause, and a great party. My mother-in-law talked us into hosting a “surprise” birthday party for my father-in-law and 50 of his closest friends and relations. Here at the house. I didn’t blog anything about it for lo, these several months because there was a chance that he’d hear about this website from another family member. Now the story can be told of events leading up to Our Living Nightmare. A good time was had by all, apparently, except us.
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Oy, we’ve got a lot of errands today, and then dinner later with David’s parents… about that latter item, more later. This is one of the last two weekends before we take off for Utah, and there are a lot of doodads and things we needed for the house that we wanted to get before then. So in mostly logical order, we’re going to Eddie Bauer at Woodfield (David), Costco (me), Bed Bath & Beyond (both of us, for a lot of house-y stuff we need to replace), Toys R’ Us (UGH!! The Hellmouth! Need to buy a gift card…
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Learning Movable Type: Displaying Categories is just the thing I’ve been looking for: how to get the category to show up in the body of each post. In the later comment, I’m pretty certain the issue with unwanted underlining is a CSS issue, will check on that, too. Learning Moveable Type helped me out before when I added the comments to the sidebar, and keeps giving me ideas of new things to try. It’s a lot easier figuring out how to do something when it’s presented so clearly and sans technomagery.
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One of my team members is somewhat psychotic about decorating for holidays. Actually, we used to have several such – the sort of folks who go overboard buying the latest giant illuminated inflatable Santas at Christmas, who buy up half Walmart in their quest to get a good deal on dancing hamsters dressed as Elvis, singing fish, and anything that lights up and is shiny (they’re kind of like the magpies of kitsch, really). Anyway, the one psycho Person of Questionable Taste decided we needed something for the holiday doldrums; ie., that period between Valentine’s Day and St. Patrick’s Day.…
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Interesting links to check after work via Neat New Stuff: BBC – BBC Four – Audio Interviews Keeping Things Found (we’re constantly struggling with this one)
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BBC NEWS | Americas | Mother charged in Caesarean row Um. “Did not want her cosmetic appearance disfigured” does not go with the photo, somehow. It’ll probably turn out to be a misunderstanding based on some wacko “only in Utah” twist. According to the Salt Lake Trib, the surviving twin, a girl, has already been adopted. If she didn’t want the babies in the first place, why go through with a full-term pregnancy? Oh, never mind, she may have had moral objections to one well-known remedy for “oopses”. (irony mode on). I just don’t get it. On a side note…
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I realized that I was completely out of funny, after reading today’s news, so I stepped out to Fanatical Apathy to get some. That’s better. Adam’s on his much-delayed honeymoon (or is hiding out from fanatically apathetic fans on a tropical island with his better half)((he reports that his marriage is also just fine after thousands of gay weddings in the last month)). And now, bedtime. (not as cool as Pepys’ signoff, but it’ll have to do)