This is partly why she’s famous, not because she’s smart or talented, but because she says inflammatory things and that makes good infotainment.
Ditto Tucker Carlson, another hack on TV.
In any case, if you like to watch the CBC smack the talking kneecap down, feel free to take a look here.
In fact, I’d invite Ashlee Simpson over for the birthday party before Ann.
Well I’m back from a long weekend in LT. I went up Thursday evening with my co-workers and we went out to eat at the Hard Rock and did some gaming that evening. I lost $100. I was chagrinned (but not too much) about this.
Friday we got up and hit the slopes at Heavenly. We were in the middle of a pretty strong gust with snow falling all morning. I had waxed my board early that morning and really enjoyed being out there. The crowds hadn’t braved the weather and I got in some great runs on about 4” of pristine powder.
We returned that evening and I was exhausted. After a shower and a fancy dinner out at a restaurant where the waiter totally copped an attitude with me (won’t be returning, “Fresh Ketch”) I retired straightaway.
I woke up the next morning and watched “Hannie Caulder” on AMC with a few of the earlier-rising co-workers.
I really liked Raquel Welch’s performance and had to laugh at some of the more exploitative scenes (including her shrinking rubber britches to fit by soaking in water).
I headed up to the mountain again with just one other friend (only we two were that hungry for punishment) and we had a great day …. with tons of other people.
Nevertheless fun is where you find it and we had a great time running through the trees and powder - it was a lot of fun and a new challenge. I really felt good about my skill on mogul’d terrain. This has always been a real challenge for me and to be able to navigate some of the black diamond chutes was a real kick.
Amid all this joy I managed to lose my wallet.
That sucked. Fortunately I had moved my cash to a different pocket so I was not penniless (will sysadmin with bad attitude for food?).
The irony of this is that my partner works for a firm whose services my group has retained and he offered to buy me lunch. I gallantly and politely refused insisting that I pay for myself, thus begetting the taking out of walllet, thus the begetting of putting it (or so i thought) in my jacket pocket, thus begetting the loss. Note to self: Next time take the free lunch.
So upon returning to the condo I started cancelling credit cards etc. (no illicit use, thankfully!)
While others headed back to the casino (maybe the loss was meant to prevent me from further gaming loss?), myself and 4 others went into town and ate up thence to watch “Hero” on DVD in one of the condos. I was pretty exhausted (again) and headed to bed. This morning I woke up early and packed and we got home around 1.
All in all it was a fun trip …. now all i have to do is visit the DMV and wait for my new cards to arrive. * grumble *
Mike at whybark has posted the resolution to the tale of Hopkin Green Frog, a bit of an internet meme back earlier this year.
It’s a bit sadder than the idealists and Romantics of the blogosphere would have had…but it’s the truth and it usually has a sad sort of beauty.
Hopkin, the mystertious Terry was brought into my life by you and the internet, the internet has removed Terry, but may you carry on good Hopkin, ribbiting your way to a destiny unknown to us.
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I love Kasugai’s gummy (especially the strawberry) - especially with their evocative and beautiful Engrish constructs.
Here’s the description (focus and flash made it difficult to photograph): Enjoy the softness of gentle breeze / that sweeps through the vineyard / spread vast on the hill in each soft / and juicy Kasugai Grape Gummy
Merlin gave this as a doorprize at the 43Folders Meetup in San Francisco.
See, go to meetups, meet cool blogger-types { [1][2][3], see new toys, and learn about new technology
A few months ago I lost a pair of Thai Fisherman pants.
They’re not fashionable. I wouldn’t recommend you wear them in public. I bought this pair for post-surf wear on the shores of Bondi. Having lost my Australian pair, I found a way to import them from Thailand via a Yahoo shop.
They arrived in the second week of January.
I wonder now, does this stitching factory still exist? Phuket is the beach town where most of things are made, I have heard. Phuket is in ruin.
It is a postcard from Hiroshima, dated August 1st 1945.
I don’t know a whole lot about programming, but I do know something about tech.fashion. If you find a guy who is carrying a Moleskine notebook, a powerbook, and insists on writing in Ruby, you have the kind of programmer that will help you do something great.
Ruby seems to be the new hot language. Looking at the front page of del.icio.us lately I’ve seen more and more bookmarks to it hitting. I’ve not seen a whole ton about it in the industry press (yet) but I firmly believe that it is the next thing.
Discarding Perl would be implicit in that declaration. This is certainly anathema within the communities within which I work, but I think that many of the Perl-inclined are thinking that version 6 is going to mess up the Perl they liked and are ramping up on Ruby in case things don’t go to their liking.
If you have an active Ruby community at your workplace breathe a sigh of relief, if not, you may want to ask, what’s wrong here?
…of course I could always be mistaken…
Today I ask a question of great importance, is Steven G. Harms a snob in the key of e- ?
Surely he is a musical snob, cursing the fan of Ashlee “I dance like i just pooped in my pants” Simpson as well as they who favour Slipknot or the Insane Clown Possee.
But today a certain lady in SoCal proclaimed:
you’re a techno-snob
When I asserted that:
No meeting of people called “digerati” will have my presence unless I can be assured that at least 10% of them know what an ACK packet is.
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