• Home Improvement

    Vlad The Appraiser

    What with one thing and another, its a good time to refinance, plus apparently were part of a trend according to the President. So some guy by the name of Vlad is coming over to appraise the house for the mortgage company. Thats right, its an obvious joke, but still we laughed.

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Morning Mug

    On mug #2 of coffee already. The sticky notes behind it are from a hotel in Beijing and are almost too pretty to use. Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: Morning Mug By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 23 Mar ’09, 8.56am CDT PST

  • The Never-Ending Bloga

    WordPress for iPhone: Where Did It Go

    I started a post with the new version of WP for iPhone yesterday with an image, but it didnt publish. Theres a known bug with images, and the post was shown with a little locked icon before it disappeared. Guess well wait on the bugfix before uploading images directly from the phone, rather than via Flickr.

  • Geek Out!

    Over My Head: Shuttle and Station (and Spacebat?)

    An executive at work today was visiting in the rows of agents and mentioned that she’s acquainted with the commander of the current Space Shuttle mission, Col. Lee Archambault.  Discovery  is currently docked with the International Space Station.  She also mentioned that she’d watched the combined orbital craft cross the sky overhead last night, and that it would make the transit over our area at about 734pm tonight, too. And she was right: Human Space Flight (HSF) – Sightings ***** Schaumburg ***** SAT DATE/TIME Duration/Degrees Elevation/From/Towards ISS Thu Mar 19/07:34 PM 3 39 36 above NW 11 above NE ISS…

  • Hot Off The Presses

    What’s Wrong With This Story?

    Husband: Was wife’s airport death avoidable? – Chicago Breaking News On the worst day of his life, Bob Small discovered his wife of 44 years slumped over and unconscious in her chair at the San Juan airport. Barb Small had suffered a heart attack while her spouse had stepped away to the restroom. When Small suffered a heart attack March 7 at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, no emergency medical personnel rushed to help her, no airport workers could administer CPR, and no one could immediately find a defibrillator, Bob Small said this afternoon. Twenty…

  • Hot Off The Presses - Religion - Theocracy Watch

    Play Cancelled Due To Church Meddling, Playwright Steve Martin Steps In

    UPDATE: Just want to make it clear, the show will go on. Mr Cahill continues to update his blog with new developments, like the offer of a set of costumes from a community college in Utah that staged the play. He recently appeared on Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Think Out Loud, which covered it as part of a longer broadcast to do with censorship in Oregon schools. The pastor of the local Nazarene church, Tim Gerdes, also appeared to discuss the issues with Mr Cahill, and there was a long recorded segment with the parent who originally brought her objections to…

  • Blogs Wot I Read - Hot Off The Presses - Only in Utah... - Religion - Theocracy Watch

    Glenn Beck’s OMGWTFBBQ and My Manifesto

    Daily Kos: State of the Nation diarist Hunter spent the day posting updates about yesterday’s wingnut festivities. [Throughout the day we have been bringing you breaking coverage of today’s ‘We Surround Them’ event, newsperson Glenn Beck’s effort to demonstrate the power of the ultraconservative movement via… um… well, we’re not quite sure. It seems to be based on surrounding the rest of us by meeting at Chili’s?] CRITICAL EMERGENCY UPDATE — DAILY KOS EXCLUSIVE: Home again now. Home not surrounded. Neighbors seem placid, no surrounding seems imminent. Possible conservative flanking maneuver on 2nd street turned out to be loose dog.…

  • Dear Mom

    Wish Mom Could Have Done This

    This program would really have benefited Mom back when she was forced to give up driving; she also had macular degeneration. Seniors trade cars for rides :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Transportation Edgewater resident Betty Steinke, 77, was recently forced to give up her driver’s license because of the severe visual impairment known as macular degeneration. That left her 84-year-old husband as her only chauffeur. But it won’t be long before Leroy Steinke is off the hook. After two years of planning, City Hall is ready to roll out a pioneering program that will allow seniors to donate their cars to…