Paul's Journal

09/01/2008 11:16 #45528

Three Meat Birthday for Mike
Category: birthdays

We celebrated (e:mike)'s birdthay dinner at my parents house. My mom made a delcious three meat meal consisting of shrimp, chicken and steak.

For the first time I decided to try all three in one forkfull, which was quite delicious.

Also for the first time ever (e:mike) ate with a big fork! Since he was a child he always insisted on eating with the little fork. Even at 6'3" he still ate with a mini fork. Now that he is 25 my parents said it is time to eat with a big boy fork. I don't think he was ready, lol. Here is looking sad when confronted with the big fork situation.

And we also ate the bacon chocolate I got back in vegas (e:paul,45426) It was very delicious chocolate, sprinkled with bacon bits inside.

tinypliny - 09/01/08 19:40
Both the forks I own are miniforks!!!! :D
Big forks suck. So there.

What is that orange-yellow fried-pakoda type of thing above the beans?

metalpeter - 09/01/08 11:21
As Good as that steak looks, there is no way that it could ever taste as good as I Imagine Bacon and Chocalate would taste. Looks like a good dinner time was had.

08/31/2008 11:36 #45522

Sarah Palin and Wikipedia
Category: politics

Okay, I totally don't care about Sarah Palin but I did find this story from boingboing.net

about an NPR story by Yuki Nogushi of interest because it involves the use of technology, specifically wikipedia, to shape peoples ideas about the candidate. How many of you looked her up on wikipedia

after you found out she was announced? Probably a lot of people.

Well, it turns out:

Someone - and apparently it was just one person - felt like the existing biography wasn't appropriate for a vice-presidential candidate. On Friday, 15 minutes before the rumor that John McCain had picked Palin as his running mate, a Wikipedia editor discovered 30 mostly favorable changes had been made to the Alaska governor's profile.

She was called "a politician of eye-popping integrity" and sections on her participation in a beauty pageant and her alleged use of influence to get her former brother-in-law fired were diminished.

The same person editing McCain. That was probably the most affective way of shaping people ideas without spending a dime.

However, damn that thing is busy. Look at the history on it

It seems like everytime you look at it, it is different.

jim - 08/31/08 20:47
And she has foreign policy experience because she's adjacent to Russia!

I don't really care except it makes the Republicans look like hypocrites defending her after attacking Obama.

heidi - 08/31/08 20:45
Grrrrr... She governs a state with an estimated population of 663,661 :::link::: the 47th smallest state by population, above Vermont, Wyoming and North Dakota. :::link:::

So it's easier to compare her with mayors of large cities... :::link::: which puts her around Memphis, Tenn., Fort Worth, Texas, Charlotte, N.C., and Baltimore, Md. These aren't impressive credentials no matter how you look at them.

ajay - 08/31/08 12:48
(e:paul) , it looks like the Republican Distortion Field isn't having the desired effect on you. Please report to the nearest WalMart.

You see, things that you think are negative about Palin are only negative when applied to a Democrat; if it's a Republican, then those same negatives become positives. It may seem like a bizarro world, but it really is not. (waives hand).

So she hasn't traveled much abroad? OK, since she's a Republican, that means she's untouched by conventional thinking and will bring fresh ideas to the table. (A Democrat would have been called a rookie and without experience).

So she governs out in the boonies, and got elected by just 115,000 votes (our County Exec Chris Collins got more votes in his election) ? Since she's a Republican, that means she's a maverick who will shake up the Establishment. (A Democrat, on the other hand, would be considered inexperienced and "out of touch with mainstream America").

Glad I could clear that up for you...

tinypliny - 08/31/08 11:50
I know some people might take offence but to me she seems like a woman whose ideologies are very medieval and retrogressive. I was speaking to my parents back home and I got this strong impression that as a whole, this nomination is not being viewed favourably abroad. :(

paul - 08/31/08 11:47
I think the part that scares me most is that she has only been abroad twice and she could be president. She also lives in a land that is pretty much nothing like the rest of the country. I would think those factors combined would put her pretty out of touch with Americans and definitely with the world at large.

tinypliny - 08/31/08 11:43
I probably shouldn't care about her as well since I don't even have a franchise. But I can't help shuddering at the thought that she has even a miniscule of chance at being the president of this country. *shudder shudder, double, triple shudder*

08/31/2008 00:56 #45519

Lights out, glow stick night
Category: dancing

At Ms. Kittys on Main and Allen.

tinypliny - 08/31/08 11:45
I danced like crazy at a glow night at Marcela's. But that was ages ago and I wished the company were better.

paul - 08/31/08 09:49
I danced so much, it was fun.. The DJ I liked was named Looney Toons I think.

heidi - 08/31/08 03:40
<giggle> I saw you & (e:terry) leaving as I was heading in! They were out of glowsticks, but some sweetie gave me one from her collection :-)

08/31/2008 00:01 #45518

Happy birthday mikey
Category: birthdays

tinypliny - 08/31/08 11:47
Happppppppyy BIIIRRThhhdday! Is is just me or did you just turn more handsome? Hope this year rocks for you! ;-)

mrmike - 08/31/08 08:10
Happy first quarter century!!

matthew - 08/31/08 00:59
Happy Birthday!!

08/28/2008 21:58 #45490

Colorfree
Category: race

This guy is not at all what I would expect for the president of the
NAACP. I would have figured you needed to be colored to be the
president of the national association for the advancement of colored
people. Maybe it includes Italians now.

lauren - 08/29/08 11:22
ouch. i kinda feel like...well, what comes to mind is the whole who gets to be considered an "indian" and who doesn't kind of thing... are people "black" just because of the color of their skin? how much of a percentage of "blackness" does one need to be considered black? Who decides? If you read: :::link:::
you can see that he has a long history of activism and family membership in the naacp and he clearly hasn't allowed the color of his skin to blend in with the white folks. know what i mean?

jason - 08/29/08 09:54
Includes italians? Lol!