CNN.com – Baseball-sized hail smashes Oklahoma – Mar 9, 2006 Oh, yeah. There’s a severe weather warning for much of the Southeast, plus Air Force One’s passenger is screwing up air traffic for the world’s busiest airport, and here in Chicago, the second busiest, we’ve got heavy fog and really poor visibility. Just got off the line with a lady affected by some kind of flight cancellation – probably related to the weather, but she was supposed to go via Atlanta, and that’s all messed up. So she gets to spend the night in a hotel I reserved for her,…
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News4Jax.com – News 4 Georgia – President Bush Visits Atlanta Today Just heard from a client of mine, who I think of as a loveable PITA, that Bush is visiting Atlanta today for about 2 hours, and that he’d heard the highways would be closed or at least jammed. It’s for a political fundraiser – $1000.00 a plate. You can bet that’s the real reason he’s flying around the Gulf Coast area this week “inspecting recovery efforts” – pressing the flesh for his faithful (but increasingly fractious) minions.
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Oh, boy! Time to infect (or re-re-reinfect ) my husband David with The Geek Rivalries Meme! Star Trek or Babylon 5? Tough one. Very tough. Although Trek informs a lot of my SF psycho-DNA, B5 never betrayed my trust by making me shell out the ducats to watch Drek VII: Teh Resurrection Wot Shunt’a Been. My mind says B5, my heart longs for chest-thumping Kirk and cerebral Spock. In the end, I have to say Trek. I miss not having it to watch (and occasionally, mock) on TV anymore. Because Enterprise, the most recent entry, was just starting to pick…
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Hey, the WKJ is up for a Lulu Blooker prize – this is awarded to books that started out as blogs. It’s one of 5 finalists in the fiction category. Boing Boing’s Cory Doctorow is one of the judges. Cool! Good luck, Gus!
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We’re such geeks. While waiting for the replacement TiVo to arrive. my husband David has Snapstream set up so we’re watching the big TV through his laptop, with the sound coming out of the home theater speakers. And I have Snapstream on my laptop (which is also my main computer) and can watch shows David doesn’t follow, with my headphones on. And vice versa. So the Alton Brown show about steak was on (it’s a rerun), and I wondered what NECI on his ballcap stood for. Now thanks to Google, I know it stands for New England Culinary Institute, which…
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Got an email from the Synergy Brass Quintet website folks – it seems this excelling classical musical group is trying to get their music on iTunes, and they’re asking for help from their fans. So if you like their music, go here and request that iTunes add them. If you don’t know their music, check it out.. http://www.musicianmp3.com/stream7.cfm?id=2921&Mode=New&CFID=8380&CFTOKEN=60274713″>If Ye Love Me, Keep My Commandments iTunes: Synergy Brass Quintet: If Ye Love Me, Keep My Commandments: Masterworks For Brass From The Baroque And Renaissance [2:17]
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Oh, my God, MY SHOW IS BACK. MY SHOW IS BACK! MY SHOW IS BACK! Due to being in Maui for the premiere, I missed it completely. And then when we got back, TiVo… died on us! So we’re getting a replacement. TiVo. Yep. In the meantime, David set me up with Snapstream’s BeyondTV, which he was using as a casual backup just to play around with. What with one thing and another, I was finally able to watch the premiere of TAR tonight, a week late. Unlike previous seasons, when I’ve listed all the teams with like/dislike, going on…
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Via: Flickr Title: Taxi home By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 5 Mar ’06, 11.43am PST It doesn’t look like much of anything, but this is the taxi that brought us home this morning. Neither of us slept on the flight(s) back but we’re going to try to stay awake until a decent bedtime. This will be harderr for me than for David, because he’s got an appointment this afternoon that will keep him going for a while afterward. We’ve both had a fair amount of coffee and we’ll see how long we manage to hold out. Meanwhile, we have a VERY…
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Via: Flickr Title: Scrimshaw By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 5 Mar ’06, 5.28am PST This was part of an exhibit at San Francisco International that was along the moving walkways in the terminal. Years ago, when I had to go via SFO from Eugene to Salt Lake on trips home from college, I remember seeing exhibits in pretty much the same kind of cases. Some things don’t change. Last night David and I went looking for a sit-down restaurant – our parlance for table service – and I remembered a place called the “Crab Pot.” Well, that wasn’t there, but Yankee…
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Via: Flickr Title: Sfo By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 5 Mar ’06, 4.47am PST If you look closely, you may see that the decoration on the table is a nautical chart of San Francisco Bay. Which makes sense for a seafood restaurant at SFO International. The food is really good, surprisingly good for airport fare, and not that expensive. They seemed to have a good wine list. The waiter, like so many of our waiters in Maui, was not originally from this country. His service was impeccable. And from the outside, it looks like a pretty ordinary little airport bistro.