Boing Boing: Google launches Picasa 2
I’ve used Picasa/Hello, but stopped using it a while back because it wouldn’t go through the work firewall.
Not that I did anything like that at work, mind you.
This seems to be the full-on Picasa for free, where before it was just the Hello piece. But just the other night I was in a panic trying to find images on one of my many harddrives.
So, we’ll see. I liked using it for my Razzberry Vinaigrette blog.
Episcopal leaders: We’re sorry gay bishop caused tension
The American Episcopal House of Bishops met in Salt Lake to come up with this message for the rest of the Anglican Communion regarding gay clergy, bishops, marriage, and things gay in general:
”We as the House of Bishops express our sincere regret for the pain, the hurt and the damage caused to our Anglican bonds of affection by certain actions of our church,” the bishops said. ”We express this regret as a sign of our deep desire for and commitment to continuation of our partnership in the Anglican Communion.”
I’m an American Episcopalian, and I approve of this message.
George Clooney helped plan and recruit celebrities (aka “slebs”) for disaster relief again, this time for tsunami relief. The telethon aired Saturday. Clooney also put together and recruited for a 9/11 sleb telethon.
He’s a standup guy. I always thought he was mystery sleb bloggist “Rance.” Not so sure now. The very funny lady who has taken over the old Rance digs as a favor is keeping the lights on with some good stuff and the old crowd still gathers, but we all still wish the real Rance would please stand up again.
For a future trip: finding and photographing for ourselves some of the rock art catalogued at Northumberland Rock Art, Access to the Beckinsall Archive.
Hey, remember me? I used to blog here, back when I a) wasn’t spending vast amounts of time at work and b) wasn’t obsessed with getting the Holy Moly website / blog ready for primetime.
Yeah, between work and blog, a lot of VERY late nights this past week, and not sleeping well besides. I haven’t quite pulled an all-nighter, but there was one night when I was up tinkering under the hood until 4am.
Well, that’s gotta stop. At work yesterday I joked that I was accepting offerings of drugs, liquor, and chocolate and threatening to go to the roof and not come back. I got many laughs for that, but the funny thing is, I wasn’t half kidding.
Thursday I managed to get out for a dinner reservation on time, and we met Steve and his girlfriend Ruth at Davis Street Fish Market for all-you-can-eat crab. Whoa – they don’t often do this, so the crab they had was awesome and not the overcooked, watery stuff you get at the chain seafood restaurants. We all had bibs except David, and Ruth being a vegetarian sat well back as the rest of us ripped into our crab. I suppose we were a pretty frightening sight; at one point the owner of the restaurant stopped by our table and commented “you guys are some serious eaters.”
I think it was a compliment. We certainly gave every appearance of enjoying ourselves immensely, especially Steve. He was in “orgasmo mode” as far as savoring the flavor. Then he tried to dance with Ruth with his plastic bib hanging down his back. I could only remark “Kids, don’t try this at home.”
Unfortunately, that was only Thursday, and the Friday From Hell was yet to be experienced.
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I grabbed a handful of this on my way out the door tonight – some hotel dropped off goodies.
I can’t believe an office full of women wandered off and left it all, frankly.
The Amazing Race (2001)
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Oh, you know we desperantly want this. Or, I desperately want this. I have a new episode to watch right now, but first I have to say how deperately I want this.
There, that ought to make it clear. And now, an episode to watch.
I’m trying to figure out a way to get Full-screen calendars in Movable Type [dive into mark] to maybe work as an ongoing events calendar for the Holy Moly blog/website (which is otherwise coming along).
I hit a point where I really needed an events calendar that can be updated by anyone with a sign-in, or at least easily updated via email to yours truly.
David implemented one that I currently have linked off the new and the old site, but it’s FROM HELL to update. And I’d like the ability to make a blog entry for an upcoming event generate a link to the calendar.
And so I was tinkering with the “large calendar” from diveintomark, but something’s screwy.
I took out all the curly quotes, though there may be some left. I’m getting a build error:
Build error in template 'Calendar': Error in (MTArchivePrevious) tag: You used an (MTArchivePrevious) without a date context set up.
Hmm. Checked the documentation and can’t figure it out. I may have used the wrong kind of template to build it in, too. Must figure it out later.
GARRRRRGGHH!Remember to close tags.
Further progress on church blog:
Another recap-let saved for posterity:
Another unlovely leg unfolds as a rush through a gate leads to a couple of bumped heads and an explosion of temper from Freddy that has not been hinted at until now. You know it’s getting bad when Jonathan is telling you to calm down. It turns out that water polo isn’t very hard, but spicy soup is extraordinarily difficult, and may just wind up in a puddle under your chair if you’re not careful. But seriously — don’t puke it back into the bowl, because that is really disgusting.
Jonathan does some more out-of-control screeching at Victoria, actually getting substantially worse if such a thing is possible, while Kris and Jon continue to rise above absolutely everything and Aaron begins to look like the dark horse contender for Funniest Racer of the Season.
Oh, and Lori and Bolo catch up in the first few minutes, so that was a big nothing, and they really did just make a double leg with no mat in the middle. Gus and Hera, meanwhile, choose the slower Detour option again and lag behind for most of the leg. They’re lovely, but they’re done.
Yeah, rats, they’re done. At least there are still some teams I like or can tolerate, in addition to the one(s) I can’t stand.
But for now, bedtime.
At the next challenge, the McLeods were the only team to choose paddling a boat on the Danube River instead of scoring a goal against a Hungarian water polo player.
“We had no idea that the national team was so terrible,” said Hera. “They didn’t block one shot. If I would have known that, I would’ve said, `Dad, put a Speedo on. We’re playing water polo.'”
Gus called the decision not to don skimpy swim gear “one of the best things not to happen on national television.”
Dear Gus, I love you. Enjoy that next beer. Dear Hera, you are gorgeous. You both rock.
If I had to choose traveling companions for a long trip from amongst the various teams that have comprised editions thus far of The Amazing Race, I’d be hard pressed to decide. But this team would come pretty close to the top of the list. They’re not the most colorful or funny or attractive or successful TAR duo, but they are interesting and they have thought-provoking things to say about the places they travel.
Also their laid-back, suck-it-up-and-deal demeanor would make them much more pleasant fellow travelers than certain other teams I could mention.
I was happy this week that Lori and Bolo not only survived, but kicked ass and persevered. Kind of scary watching them gulp down the blood, which was served in quite nifty snifters. Not sure why they set out so many glasses; maybe they thought more than one team would drop by for a quick one, realize what that actually entailed, and decide to go back and do the Detour instead of the Fast Forward.
Best line of the night, hands down: Kris on the rail buggy: “Oooh, it’s so vibraty.”
