One of the secrets of New England is that outside of the metropolitian areas, it, much like the rest of the country, is pretty conservative. Hence Mit Romney in Mass, Lieberman in CT, Pat Kennedy in RI (Ok, the folks in Rhode Island are all loony, but they’re all loaded, so it’s OK). My district is represented by Rep Rob Simmons who is by all accounts a bang-up guy.
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From last weeek, but we were severely lacking in holiday cheer.
Crawfish Cornbread, originally uploaded by Rollerfeet.
Thanks to Ashley for providing the fuel that continues to feed the belief in my office that I am a good cook. This recipe makes a delicious and completely unhealthy treat. I reccomend cooking it in a cast iron skillet (or two) — be sure to Pam© the skillet first.
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Even though I wasn’t quick enough to get the cursive “Elvis”, you can clearly see why the U.T. Longhorn band is called “The Showband of the Southwest”. To paraphrase Brian, we may be behind at the half but we won the half time show!
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Yes, I know what happened to Juan Rodriguez, but it is not a good idea to spend more money on lottery tickets than you have in the bank.
So I’ve been using Amazon’s new search engine, A9, and have been pleasantly suprised. The interface is spare, much like Google. There’s value added, too – the “Images” tab seems to bring up more relevant pics than Google’s, and A9 is tied to Amazon’s Search inside the book feature.
I’m sure there’s privacy issues here like Bono’s got wrap-around sunglasses, but if you’re willing to compromise, it seems to learn your preferences pretty quickly. The propoganda.
Plus, Amazon’s offering pi/2% off of everything if you use A9 for a while.
From here:
Embarrassed federal lawmakers are trying to rescind what they say is a mysterious provision passed over the weekend that appears to give some members of the House and Senate unrestricted ability to read the private tax returns of Americans.
President Bush and former President Bill Clinton squeezed through the glass entrance to the [ new Clinton Presidential ] library.
—i’m still coping with the election but this photo helps a lot—
(OK, dogs, hyenas, and horses do it too, but they don’t have cool shoes)
There also was the gluteus maximus, the muscle of the buttocks. Earlier human ancestors, like chimpanzees today, had pelvises that could support only a modest gluteus maximus, nothing like the strong buttocks of Homo.
“Have you ever looked at an ape? They have no buns,” Bramble said.
Last year the boys over at Penny Arcade thought it would be a hoot to get their readers to donate a few toys to a local children’s hospital. A few toy-filled garages later, they thought it might be a good idea to organize a full blown charity. This year, you can donate at the Child’s Play Charity website to five different children’s hospitals around the country through Amazon Wishlists or PayPal.
Give ‘till it hurts.
Remember the rules for Calvin’s game that he changed as he saw fit during the game? I had this in mind as I read about my favorite majority leader, Tom DeLay, a continuous recipient of baseless partisan attacks. Seems that the GOP want to change their own rule about representatives keeping their posts while under indictment. What a great tone to set for WII: The Worsening.
Honeymoon’s over.
(Thought about creating a new category: CSO – Completely Sick Obsessions. It’s come to my attention recently that I face absolutely every new challenge in my life with the thought “Hey, I remember when this happened on the Simpsons…” Anyhow…)
Yesterday’s syndicated show was The Margical History Tour and I liked it. Partially because it was clever and pseudo historic, but mostly because the first sketch featured Homer as King Henry the VIII.
“Whaa?” you ask…
To which, I reply, “Dude, you’ve got to check out The Six Wives of Henry VII the next time you’re flipping past it on PBS”. I swear, I’ve caught it like a half dozen times, and every time it sucks me in completely. Partially because I’ve become entranced with the Baroque Cycle and Henry VIII the wheels in motion for most of the European geo-political turmoils of the next half a thousand years when he ditched his wife and the Pope in one fell swoop.
Absolutely fascinating.
Marvel’s sueing a video game manufacturer for copyright infringement. Scott Kurtz touched on this in PvP last week.
IMO, it’s a difficult case – A huge part of the attraction of the game in question is to be able to live out one’s favorite characters, and the folks who built City of Heroes must have known that; but overriding that is every kid who’s seen Star Wars and played Luke versus the Stormtroopers, every kid who’s read the X-Men and pretended they had claws, etc, so on, and so forth. Marvel’s real gripe, I guess, is that they didn’t come up with it first.
Cory Doctorow (Whose “Life and Death in the Magic Kingdom” is a phenomenal read, and available free at his website) weighs in in the Wired article:
“Asking City of Heroes to police their users to ensure that they don’t replicate Marvel characters is like asking a school to police its students to make sure none of them show up for Halloween in a homemade Spider-Man costume. It’s unreasonable bullying, and it is bad corporate citizenship…Read more!“Can you imagine a game where every tweak to your character requires sign-off from the game company’s copyright and trademark lawyers? Marvel is supposed to be a company that stands for fun, imagination and storytelling, but this lawyer-happy thuggery is the hallmark of a Stalinist dictatorship, not a game world.”