Cottonheaded ninneymuggins
Ready for the weekend. It's been a spate of meandering gatherings, financial foolishness, and struggling to keep my wits about me, but I think slowly but surely I'm winning. Went to a Sunday morning version of my Hot yo…
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House Assessment Challenge
I'm preparing my case to fight out recent house assessment. I will be taking photos of the exterior of our house, it needs a paint job terribly. I will be taking using photos of our kitchen and bathroom that show they h…
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well what are you going to eat?
ahhh the age old question my mother asks every time a holiday or family gathering of some sort is going to happen. Why? Hubby and I are both vegetarians in a family of non-vegetarians and we apparently still confound an…
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Black Ice!
I counted 13 multi-car accidents on the way to work, including 4 accidents just at the on-ramps to the 198 at Elmwood (one at each on-ramp!). Plus a few spin-outs. It usually takes me 15 or 20 minutes to get to work via…
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Finally Finals = Finito
Its 3:30 am. I just finished my last real paper and "response" that was supposed to be due last week but I just kept putting it off. I love when the basis of a paper is completely disagreeing with another writer's inter…
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Vegas Trip Dec 6-9 '08
I ended up going out to Vegas last weekend. Here is where i stayed, again. I actually did something that didn't involve gambling, I saw Oasis on Saturday Night. Liam being a Liam at the end of the show Everyone trying t…
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Cold Day In Hell
Still sick as a dog, but... enjoying exploring a new programming language. XML literals, unrestricted operator and syntax overloading, optional explicit immutability and finally a non-verbose type system. Scala: http://…
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Sandwich in a box
We had our union holiday party today. This year the food sucked. It was subway sandwiches in a box. Every person got their own environmentally disastrous, personal box. It was like one quarter full. I am not even sure w…
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THEY FOUND THE BODY!!!!
OMG they finally found the body of a small child about half a block from the anthony home that they believe is of little caylee marie anthony, the child of the florida mom who didn't report her gone until the grandmothe…
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IE Browser stats
On both the Buffalo NFTA Bus schedule site http://estrip.org/nfta and on estrip.org it appears that the use of IE6 is dying rapidly. I think Roswell might be the last stronghold. I can't believe we are using such outdat…
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Elmwood Hate Mail
Before I get to the reason I wrote I just wanted to mention that on Yahoo I saw pictures from a Snow Storm in New Orleans and yes there was some on the ground as a trolly was going down the tracks you should check it ou…
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enough already
ug. phew. breath in, breath out. this will not be another rant about how stupid conservative Christians are in their arguments for gay marriage. HOWever, I came across this in one of my "lefty" (as my father would say) …
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a godfather, a tranny and a midget
i'm at school, in a lounge area, and there's a tv. i had to turn it off because jerry springer was on and the title of the show was, "a godfather, a tranny, and a midget." one can only guess what might take place on tha…
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Nuclear Umbrella
So, President-elect Obama will reportedly offer Israel a "Nuclear Umbrella" in the event that Iran strikes it with a Nuke. Anti-semites the world over are fuming. I have to say I'm surprised by this development. I thoug…
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two weeks- also where to find mistletoe?
So I look at the calender and realize that in two weeks today is Christmas. Seems I am always losing a couple of days here and there- the dates of things seem to sneak up. As with most major holidays, this one isn't a b…
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Eid Ahda Mubarak!
Eid Ahda Mubarak! Here are some random thoughts from this week: Why do I see so many muslims hording the Christmas isle in Carrefour? I wonder if they are just fake celebrating Christmas because they like buying and get…
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Yea for science!
Obama's pick to solve the energy crisis - Andrew Leonard "You should interview Steven Chu," the scientist at the Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, Calif., told me. "He already has one Nobel Prize. He wants to get …
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Rahmbomania...
Okay, I can't help posting these two Rahmboid gems. The first one was posted by e:drew in the chat: The second one was posted by e:james in the chat: From: http://famousdc.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/rahm_email.jpg T…
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Right to die on TV....
Some of you might remember that I wrote about an internet Suicide http://estrip.org/articles/metalpeter/46789.html a little bit back in the past. Well today on Yahoo I read a story about someone who killed them selves o…
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about to poke my eyes out
So... I have to give my Grand Rounds presentation tomorrow. It's kind of a big deal. But only kind of. I.e., it's required that we DO it, but there is no requirement that it be GOOD. But... you're up there in front of t…
