• Twitter

    Weekly Tweets 2011-03-27

    March 27, 2011 - By 

    Wow! It smells like spring (wet earth, anyway). # Weekend was relaxing; supermoon was a bust but it was nice driving to the lake. # Flights being xxled at MIA due to lack of fuel. Some disruptions to travel, oh joy. # RT @OTOOLEFAN "How fired is that air traffic controller at Reagan Airport?" Pretty fired if he's the same one that locked himself out before # RT @petersagal "The cover of @Waitwait's debut 1986 album, "Straight Outta Waterbury." http://moby.to/owti1d" Karl in da house! # I like making new words; "snorfleguffaw" is my gift to the world (and it's already…

  • Hot Off The Presses

    Kids Helping Kids Across Borders

    March 20, 2011 - By 

    This is very nice news. Kids helping out other kids, and adults going out of their way to help, too. March is graduation month for students across Japan, and each spring Minori Yamaki teaches traditional songs and dances to her students at a Japanese preschool in northwest suburban Niles. The lyrics express gratitude to friends and teachers and bid farewell to their school, especially poignant themes for this year’s graduates in the wake of the earthquake that rocked northeastern Japan on March 11. On Sunday, Yamaki’s students, ages 3 to 6, expressed thanks to hundreds of people who donated money…

  • Twitter

    Weekly Tweets 2011-03-20

    March 20, 2011 - By 

    In Southern Illinois. 20 degrees warmer than at home, not wearing coats and it's early spring! GREEN THINGS! http://moby.to/pwbf6u # Yesterday's breakfast: Worried eggs… are worried. http://moby.to/7a3a4v # Ok yes, mostly dirt, but GREEN THINGS GROWING! http://moby.to/osawko # RT @mashable "Verizon iPhones Fell Back an Hour Instead of Springing Ahead – http://on.mash.to/ehOR9I" #YASRWSWATT # That's Yet Another Surprising Reason We're Still With AT&T (with the iPhone). #YASRWSWATT # On the road headed to Champaign for lunch with our nephew Josh. @fallingrock 's dad has 2 bleeping GPS units plus radar on. #fb # I checked in at Courier Cafe (111…

  • Politics, Schmolitics

    Sen. Durbin Takes On James OKeefe | @RepJoeWalsh needs schooling

    March 17, 2011 - By 

    NPR may be in a defensive crouch, but at least one Democratic lawmaker is publicly pushing back against James OKeefes war on public broadcasting: Sen. Dick Durbin D-IL.Durbin took to the Senate floor on Monday to mount a defense of NPR and PBS and attack OKeefes credibility. Noting that previous OKeefe tapes have been found to be misleadingly edited, including his footage of ACORN in which he posed as a pimp, Durbin said that the same tactics were being used to go after NPR. He cited a widely circulated analysis by Glenn Becks website, The Blaze, as evidence.”Mr. OKeefe appears…

  • Twitter

    Weekly Tweets 2011-03-13

    March 13, 2011 - By 

    Saw "Guys and Dolls" at Marriott Lincolshire last night, great show! #fb # I'm now the Duchess of St Nicholas Episcopal Church on #Yelp http://bit.ly/bZOyfa # Almost time for Stone Soup. Then ashes and quiet reflection for Lent. #AshWednesday http://is.gd/ApJhmJ # Hey @WXRT Lin, traffic was bad *just like you said it would be*. # RT @forgetmenot1230 "RT @#RecallWalkerNOW #RecallWalkerNOW #RecallWalkerNOW #RecallWalkerNOW #p2" # Are we surprised the Spokane rat-poison bomber has ties to white supremacy hate group? No. http://is.gd/fRvZSP #SpokaneMLK # More proof that busting the unions trumps the economy: #WISenate strips fiscal parts from bill so quorum not…

  • Hot Off The Presses

    U.S. troops, searchers and equipment arriving in Japan – CNN.com

    March 12, 2011 - By 

    Via: (CNN) — The first wave of promised aid from the United States began arriving in Japan on Saturday in the wake of the devastating 8.9-magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunami. More aid — in the form of equipment, staffers and search-and-rescue teams — was expected to arrive Sunday. In Shiroishi, a town near the area hardest hit by the quake, two SH-60 helicopters from U.S. Naval Air Facility Atsugi delivered 1,500 pounds of rice and bread donated by people in Ebina, southeast of Tokyo, the U.S. 7th Fleet, said in a statement Saturday. The fleet is headquartered in Yokosuka, just…

  • Hot Off The Presses

    Linkdump: March 8th – March 11th

    March 11, 2011 - By 

    Drive thru church initiates Ashes to Go Sample Board Online In Australia: March 2010 SACO Covent Garden – St Martins – Serviced Apartments, Corporate Housing and Extended Stay in London – West End, UK Where I'd like to stay on next trip to London Ash Wednesday: Ash Wednesday by TS Eliot Chisel/Carve | GIMP Plugin Registry