• Blogs Wot I Read - Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    Palin Bailin’ Out

    Every blogger worth her or his salt has already had a lot to say about Sarah Palin’s gobsmacking resignation yesterday. I can’t possibly improve on what they had to say (you should visit Mudflats, the companion piece at Huffpost, and Andrew Sullivan’s “Iceberg” post and catch up there). I heard fairly long clips of this speech on NPR on my way home, and I was trying to make sense of it and drive safely. All too soon, I gave up on trying to parse the unparseable and concentrated on getting home without incident. Some of the phrases I heard, however…

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    links for 2009-07-04

    The New Adventures of Mr Stephen Fry: Just Add Sugar and Sell It Fry delivers the first Spectator Lecture on one of his favorite subjects: America. It's a love-hate relationship. (tags: StephenFry) Sarah Haskins in Target Women: Hair // Current Are you a Raider of the Lost Temple of The Last Crusade for shiny, manageable, hydralicious hair? (tags: Funny) VetVoice:: Join the RedState Army Strike Force See comments for Fightin' Chickenhawks unit patch, parody of RedStates' version. Go, "Chairborne!" (tags: Chickenhawks RedState) Sarah Palin to Resign as Alaska Governor, Citing Probes and Family Needs – washingtonpost.com Pass the ball for…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    OS X-Man

    Tract houses like ours don’t have front porches, and Steve can’t be inside with all the cat stuff. Patio stuff is still packed (rainy spring and summer). Solution: camp chairs on the driveway. With iPhones. Earlier, Steve had his Mac laptop out (the wi-fi juuuust makes it). He leaves for his road trip soon. West Coast, you have been warned. Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: OS X-Man By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 4 Jul ’09, 11.44am CDT PST

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Welcome, New Robot Overlord!

    It’s a reconditioned Roomba, now charging in its dock. It does a decent job getting edges and under stuff; later on we’ll reposition it upstairs and let it work under the bed. Riley is not thrilled. We’re going to attach a short piece of string to it later and see what happens. Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: Welcome, New Robot Overlord! By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 4 Jul ’09, 11.36am CDT PST