David was disappointed we were going to miss the total lunar eclipse tonight, but it turns out there will be a webcast. Yay!! UPDATE: I don’t know if the webcast sites will be any good, but the moon is visible through light haze at the moment, with a small bite taken out of the lower lleft quadrant. David’s trying something fancy with his camera involving a tripod, a long lens, and a hat. We’ll see if it works.
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Yes, the broadcast date of the 6th installment of The Amazing Race is November 16, and the CBS site has been updated with team profiles. After learning a lesson about not forming too many opinions on people before the premiere airs (that is, I tended to dismiss the TAR4 Klowns until I felt the Klown Luv and realized they were terrific, fun racers), I won’t say much. However, what’s with the woman in the red pullover and the “lookit my boobs!” pose? Oh, right, she’s a model. The professional wrestlers kind of bug me, but who knows? They might turn…
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Surfers outside the US have been unable to visit the official re-election site of President George W Bush (Ed. note: www.georgewbush.com, and hell no, I’m not linking to it). The blocking of browsers sited outside the US began in the early hours of Monday morning. Since then people outside the US trying to browse the site get a message saying they are not authorised to view it. The blocking does not appear to be due to an attack by vandals or malicious hackers, but as a result of a policy decision by the Bush camp. It may be a bandwidth…
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Weekend? There was a weekend? Friday Worked at the client home office location, so had to “dress up.” Took the new camera with me, got a few photos before the light went Went shopping for new clothes with my husband David. Actually bought some for myself, and they actually fit. Saturday Bar Mitzvah service in Northfield, wearing the new clothes Lunch with Dan and Deb at their place, not far from Libertyville Drove home for a short time, bought more clothes on the way. Drove back up to Libertyville to the location of the party. Got home very late, probably…
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Bush supporters are in a remarkably stable state of cognitive dissonance according to this study: “The roots of the Bush supporters’ resistance to information,” according to Steven Kull, “very likely lie in the traumatic experience of 9/11 and equally in the near pitch-perfect leadership that President Bush showed in its immediate wake. This appears to have created a powerful bond between Bush and his supporters–and an idealized image of the President that makes it difficult for his supporters to imagine that he could have made incorrect judgments before the war, that world public opinion could be critical of his policies…
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We Hates Them, We Hates Them, We Hates Them Forever! I don’t know. All I can tell you is that for those of us who have felt like we never got to have any fun because the Yankees hogged it all, it was pretty fun. No pinstripes at the World Series? I can get behind that. I can totally get behind that, too. Now, I’m a transplanted Seattelite living in the Chicago suburbs. The only baseball team I could ever get excited about is the Mariners, because for one shining season in 1995 everything clicked, even when Griffey was out…
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Apparently, everybody‘s doing it. So I am too. And no, I wouldn’t run off a cliff if everybody was doing that, too. It makes for a sucky blog entry. UPDATE: Hey, that didn’t take long, but the logo isn’t as cool as the one Joey the Accordion Guy blogged. UPDATED UPDATE: So yeah, my new tag line stays for a while. BTW, that wasn’t really “Robin Williams” that commented. David urged me to do a reverse lookup on on the source, and sure enough it led right back to his workplace. He totally cracked himself up. So now I’m Reality-Based…
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Another reason to vote for Melissa Bean and against Phil Crane: the list of sitting Congresscrittes who took dirty money: Tom DeLay PAC Contributions, By State Yep, Crane took about $10,000 – amazing. He manages to be a do-nothing at taking graft, too. Lots more Rethugs took way more, and quite a few didn’t take much or gave theirs back. So he’s bumping along in the middle.
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Bishop Gene Robinson: “I will not resign.”Well, good on you. I pray that we may all be one on this issue (oh, don’t look so shocked, it’s in the Prayer Book and everything). It’s interesting how much more conservative the African bishops are, and how naive we liberal Americans were for thinking that everyone else in the Anglican world would be okay with a concept that some of us have struggled to become okay with ourselves. In microcosm, some people still struggle at the local level, but I have hopes that the strugglers can come to terms with their feelings…
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Regarding yesterday’s plane crash in Missouri: when this kind of thing happens, the airline inhibits the internal flight information that we can look up in the reservations system. There’s just no sane way to to update flifo with “Plane crashed” and not seem really crude and heartless. Normal flifo for that flight for today shows that it’s been cancelled, but with no explanation: 2AA5966/20OCT« AA5966/20OCT CORPORATE AIRLINES STL 642P B14 IRK 734P 1FX CANCEL STL -IRK - *1001 Flifo for yesterday’s fatal crash simply comes back 2AA5966/19OCT« FLIFO DISPLAY AND UPDATES INHIBITED.