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Now relegated to Blogblivion...Friday, September 08, 2006
Donate to Dean or Buy His Book
Dean Esmay is unemployed and as a result is having only his second pledge drive in all his years of superlative blogging. You might consider helping out.
Alternatively or additionally, you might consider purchasing a copy of the newly released novel by Dean Esmay and John Eddy, Methuselah’s Daughter, which I am assured remains available as a signed, limited edition hardcover first printing. I was lucky enough to be one of those getting advance installments to review as they were completed. It’s been edited and modified since, but I liked what I saw and look forward to reading it all in one not-on-screen pass. If the special hardcover is too costly for you, despite its special nature, the paperback should be available Real Soon Now through typical bookseller channels.
The blog of Methuselah’s Daughter.
An excerpt
Another excerpt
Testemonials
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Family Pictures
Here are some great pictures of several nieces and nephews.
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Carnival of the Vanities #200 - Acidman Memorial Edition
Deb posted the above picture in 2003, by way of apology to Acidman for some prior cat-taunting. Rob sure did love him some red toenails, but until this picture, I’d been apathetic. To this one I had a visceral reaction. Within weeks of Acidman as catalyst, appropriately, we’d gone from casual virtual flirting and reading each other to falling in love, making plans to meet in person, and fully expecting to be married. Almost three years later, here we are, lives changed beyond recognition, sad that our kids will never get to meet “Mr. Rob.” There will surely be some fond memories on the part of the local kids on High Point Drive.
So here were are, hosting what would ordinarily be a special event, the 200th edition of Carnival of the Vanities, the first carnival of the blogosphere. That makes it twice as old as one of the major carnival offspring, Carnival of the Recipes, which just had its 100th edition. The second major ongoing carnival, Carnival of the Capitalists, just had its 145th edition. 200? That’s a lot. That’s almost four years, which is forever in blogospheric history. Rob Smith was around back then, too, hosting the 24th edition, now lost to a “dude, where’s my archives” mishap.
Why not make it even more special? And so, here’s the 200th edition of Carnival of the Vanities, with some amazing stuff (and maybe some not so amazing; YMMV, BIITEOTB and all that), but with the addition of a celebration and remembrance of the life and interests of Rob “Acidman” Smith of Gut Rumbles, fan of fine red-tinged female feet everywhere.
Speaking of which, Leslie not only points out Project Red Toes while remembering Rob, but also displays a whole bunch of toe pics (not to be confused with toe picks) of her own.
In another post, Leslie notes “Rob was an absolute catalyst for friendship,” which is exactly in keeping with my intro, and enumerates lessons she learned from him. There are some excellent ones. I like the part about Switzerland. See also the flying monkey quote she links to at the end.
Appropriately enough to the intro above, Joanie was, if I remember right, the first fellow blogger I told about the budding long-distance relationship between me and Deb. After Rob left us, she found peace in a poolside vision of Acidman.
Livey remembers Acidman the ham, who just loved raw oysters. Ugh. Yet he makes it almost look… tasty. Great pictures!
Dax remembers the first time he met Acidman in person, and how it paid to take a chance.
James Joyner, one of my most direct contemporaries in the blogosphere, remembers Acidman as the Tall Dog he was, with many links to other tributes and reactions, and to some significant topics Rob covered. It was on account of being “discovered” by Rob almost as soon as I started blogging that I got my first major blog boost. It was almost as much of a rush to get an Acidbath as an Instalanche, and frankly more meaningful.
Laughing Wolf shares some wiseass humor in Acidman’s memory, since it was Acidman who tried to draw more of that kind of thing out of him. Better still, gun humor.
Lynn didn’t set out to write a tribute post, but her post on age is something Rob might appreciate, or even say himself. Especially: “There’s no reason why a 50-year-old shouldn’t act like a 20-year-old if they feel like it.”
Jim at Smoke on the Water was not only one of the unknown hordes of bloggers Rob inspired into it, but also one he specifically cajoled into it. Yet another life dramatically changed... and ongoing:
Life goes on. Shitty things in the news which would’ve pissed Rob off still need ranting. The laughable idiocy of the Left still need lampooning. Bourbon needs be sipped, cigars need be smoked, hogs must be roasted and fresh green peanuts need their boiling.
Jim initially reacts to Rob’s death in Silent Echoes, which has a large number of links to the reactions of others.
Speaking of reactions, Sam’s original post with the news may be no Gatorade thread, but it was one hell of a way to pick up 564 comments and 64 trackbacks in short order. I suspect Rob would love and ostensibly hate all the attention. It was moving to read the comments as they were left, shedding many tears along the way. When I read this comment by Chris Muir:
Shit.
The good ones go.
I knew the next day to look for this:
Elisson remembers Rob’s grandest blogging achievement of all, when he was “flushed with pride” to receive the Golden Plunger Award.
Jim remembers Rob in the context of their most unlikely friendship, between a Yankee lawyer and a Jawja cracker.
Later, in one of the funniest posts ever, Jim puts us there when Rob meets up with St. Peter.
Then again, Rube was intensely funny with his tale of The New Guy.
Libby has an Acid Flashback, which for some reason is the first of these to really water my eyes. Included are some links to distinctive Acidman writings. Yep, Google still has him as number one for computer fucktard.
Catfish brings us a classic story of Rob, sex, and Costa Rica. Hey, it’s an Acidman tribute; old Roscoe had to show up sometime.
At Theater of the Soul, memories of Acidman and one of his best crackpot posts ever, followed by The Carnival of the Blogfaddah, rounding up submissions remembering Rob and some favorites among his posts.
James Hooker wrote a song for Acidman.
Nic presents a slideshow, featuring Acidman and friends extensively but not exclusively.
Lisa entered this particular post with Acidman in mind, because it reminded her of his “does this make me a racist?” genre of posts. And of course that would be a resounding “no.”
Elisson believes Acidman would have enjoyed this kind of cooking. Certainly he’d appreciate that kind of memory, not to mention the… motel incident.
Finally, courtesy of Elisson, we have a series of three videos of Rob being interviewed on an Atlanta Fox station. It’s part of a series on bloggers who lost their jobs due to blogging, as he so famously did. Left out was the part about the ex having the same employer and so forth.
There ends the Acidman tribute portion of Carnival of the Vanities #200. If I missed your entry, if you let me know ASAP, I will add it in.
Traditional CotV Entries - tons of them! - begin here...
Mama Duck weaves the tale of Lil’ Duck’s sudden aversion to soap, in the showers he has always loved as much as our girls do, and how she worked around it, while Daddy Duck, well, not so much.
BirdDC deviates from its usual topic of birding to point out an absolutely horrendous act of vandalism, in the form of graffiti painted over prehistoric Native American rock painting. Along with related vandalism elsewhere.
At Rigor Vitae we meet up with the intrepid Puffy Grubman, bane of bicyclists everywhere, and fine example of Greatest Generation Syndrome. While I’m glad the author was not hurt, I’m glad of the intensely humorous anecdote, quite possible the best mainstream entry of the week.
Seriously. If you read nothing else linked here, read this one. There’s also some seriously cool art. And more here and here.
Free Money Finance departs from the usual fare to elicit comments on what famous people you’ve met, and share his own list. My first thought was that I hadn’t met any, but that’s not true at all. I’ve met several authors and artists, including Bob Eggleton, James P. Hogan, and the late Jack L. Chalker, who could amiably talk your ears off at length about this and that. And what of bloggers we meet? At what point are they “famous” versus “just some blogger”?
Batya at Shiloh Musings looks back at Israel’s history, tracing current problems to the level of socialism of the founding fathers.
Peter Kua uses the example of a rudeness survey to discuss the danger of living in denial.
Zachary Moore ponders the intrusion of a naturalistic, materialistic worldview into Christianity, and whether you can be a consistent Christian while engaging in physical violence, such as a boxing match.
Francois Tremblay has noticed that some who call themselves anarchists are anything but, thus imparting a perception of violence onto anarchists in the minds of the general public. Perhaps encouraged by those who might benefit from such misperceptions?
Barry Welford discusses how you can profit from the combination of outsourcing and the internet.
Christine Kane describes the concept of a monthly Adventure Day, which sounds like a great idea for getting out of the same old rut. I did something like that briefly when I lived in Quincy, centered on trying new things at the supermarket.
Ah, memories! Of family reunions, food… and vengeance. Dazed recalls it all well.
Ruled Britannia is a book by Harry Turtledove, big name alt-history author. Shakespeare as a major character? Sounds intriguing. Doug Mataconis reviews it well.
The Liberty Papers brings us the sorry case of the nanny state versus the family, in which we learn that the government owns you and your children, so how could you possibly make decisions for them.
Metatron. Sounds modern, doesn’t it? Like a Transformer or something. But it’s not. Reb Chaim HaQoton educates us.
Dan Melson says that volatility is a regular investor’s best friend, moving from the generic dollar cost averaging concept everyone knows about through a reasonable explanation. Don’t let the presence of numbers scare you away.
Stock Market Beat reports on Yankee Candle, complete with a picture of their tourist mecca. I once lived just down the street from Yankee Candle; luckily far enough not to have to smell it in my house.
Paul’s Tips gives you cautionary help in the form of seven simple ways to ruin your friendships. I found myself thinking of examples of most of them, as I read through, and there are people who really have no idea they’re doing whichever one, or that it can be so offensive. Everyone slips sometimes, but you know the people who talk at you, always complain, are difficult in the face of group plans, and so forth. Great post!
Supermom talks about how to turn weaknesses into strengths when operating, or contemplating, a home based business.
Adam Gurri has read Glenn‘s book, An Army Of Davids, and reviews it for us. Mainly positively, and with consideration of how webcomics are a part of the trend.
Gnotalex points out a site where waitresses tell their war stories.
Some Christians are apparently elated by Middle East bloodshed, shedding compassion for the victims in their eagerness to bring on World War III (IV, by many counts, V or, yes, III, by others) and get the proverbial end times over with. Ah, the joy. Ooh, the rapture. Jon Swift has all the details.
Miriam warns us that if we have tax business with New Castle County, we’ll need to ask for Betty, who she knows remarkably well. I just hope Patty can handle it when it’s Betty’s time to go.
Jack Yoest watched a lawyer get beat up and describes for us the gory scene, in the form of the Jim Haynes confirmation hearing. He really doesn’t sound like he ought to be a judge.
Wayne Hurlbert tells us about activist blogs, ones operated for a cause, and offers advice for them.
Jon Anderson has the goal of one million visitors, and an associated scheme in which you can essentially bet on when that will be reached, if I follow correctly.
Nubricks outlines good and bad reasons for cashing in on accumulated equity in your home.
In an excellent post, Water Causes Cancer!, ultimately about our perception of risk and nature of worry, Brad Warbiany looks at the history and nature of testing of chemicals as mutagens and carcinogens.
David St. Lawrence makes an excellent observation about doctors and similar care providers, noting the disparity that often exists between those with technical but no social skills, and those we find pleasant but who might be less competent. There’s a marketing lesson in here, for those who would accept it.
Daniel Collins notes the recent designation of the Aflaj Irrigation System of Oman as a UN World Heritage site, launching from there into the technology, history, and potential future benefit of these types of water systems.
Tam Hanna passes on customer service lessons inspired by bad experiences at a doctor’s office.
Leslie Carbone writes on the power of the market and the subjectivity of value as lessons of the famous red paperclip series of trades by Kyle MacDonald. This is similar to what I had in mind to write myself, when I saw the guy had succeeded far more quickly than I had expected. Which goes to show that the invisible element of the series of trades was publicity value, as noted in a less positive post by Warren Meyer. Less positive due to the final trade, fueled with taxpayer money. Still, it’s a pretty remarkable story, and economic/commercial lesson.
Basia asks ”who needs an SUV?“ An amusing pictorial of the alternatives is provided for your entertainment edification.
Neal Phenes compares Euro critics of Israel to teenagers, in complaining about proportionality, and likens Israel’s response to punitive damages.
At Debt Free there are questions about whether our soldiers deserve the best, and why they appear not to be getting it.
Adam Graham reflects on his call center experience - all very familiar to me, the time when the worst was happening, and the opportunities we get now and then to make a real difference to other people.
Soccer Dad promotes the library as a resource for accessing paid online sources that you might not want to subscribe to personally.
Western Resistance brings us another best post of this carnival, this one somber rather than funny, and long but worth every moment to read. In her own words, Flora del Mindanao tells us why she could not remain a Muslim. It’s a horrific tale of being enslaved and abused as an imam’s household servant, amazingly lucky to have escaped and lived to tell the world about it.
Dad at raising4boys.com reflects on a study that shows fraternal birth order affects sexual orientation. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Finally, Nickel would like us all to know that Dish Network customer service sucks. But do they at least have good hold music?
That’s it for the 200th edition of Carnival of the Vanities. If you entered and weren’t in here, you missed the deadline, I goofed, you entered multiple times and I only used one of them, or you were not a blog. You can probably figure out which applies.
Next week’s scheduled host is Siempre, Cait. After that, nobody is lined up until the special 208th edition, that is, 4 years, which will apparently be hosted by the guy in charge, per tradition.
Want to volunteer to host CotV one week? E-mail host [at] firstcarnival [dot] com if you’d like to sign up. Remember that it can be a lot of work, even without being a special edition, depending on how you choose to approach it. Intentional verbosity will slow you down every time.
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Steven Taylor for President
No pipeweed required to imagine it.
Steven Taylor: A Rare Rational Choice For America
This message brought to you by the Committee to Draft Steven Taylor for President.
Friday, May 12, 2006
No Relation to Mack
Paul Burgess is knife blogging. Isn’t it purty?
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
So Much AI Blogging, So Little Time
If you need something to do while awaiting the results show when Chris Katharine (please?) gets the axe, then check out some of the best and funniest Idol blogging I have seen, by Doug Williams.
SarahK, your Idol blogging now has worthy competition.
Well, then there’s always the not-necessarily-funny takes by Dean, Kate, Kate, Sharon, and Ann.
Monday, May 01, 2006
Coffeemaker Blogging
I will be watching the results of Glenn’s coffeemaker blogging with great interest, because we could use one Real Soon Now and I would agree with most of his specs. Except I would add reasonable in price.
On the other hand, the $9 Proctor-Silex coffeemaker I bought for the office in 1999 and have used at home intensively for the past… over a year?... since our fancier model died has certainly earned its stripes. It makes good coffee and the main reason for retiring it soon is it has stopped keeping the pot hot enough. Even that’s a close thing.
I like cheap, but I’d also love one of those timer models so you can set it to fire up in the morning like an alarm clock only better.
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Overheard In Our House, AI Edition
What I said in reaction to Kellie “the Hideous Pickle” Pickler being voted off American Idol:
“Oh my God, Sarah must be having an orgasm!”
Yeah, it was time.
I never wrote my AI post from last night, though mostly that amounted to ”what Dean said.”
I was unusually impressed with Taylor, as for once he gave some reason for his fan base to exist and keep him in it even when he’s awful.
I was unusually impressed with Katharine, though we still aren’t keen on Her Plasticity. Listening to the MP3 afterward made it more impressive. Watching the video afterward with no sound made her seem even more ridiculous than when there’s the singing to distract you.
Elliot did what Elliot does best, maybe more so than normal, but ultimately the song bored me no matter how well performed.
Paris was better on MP3 afterward than I credited her at the time, despite her song choice.
Chris was just perfect. Good choice of artist and apparently this time nobody minded the choice of a more obscure song. At least, I’d never heard of it. He not only had the voice, but he meant it.
Kellie was the particular blight on the evening, between song choice and performance. Unchained Melody is just too big, too famous, and too Not Country for her. For me it goes further, much the way Taylor did on Queen night.
When Taylor sucked doing Crazy Little Thing Called Love - which should have been a fine choice for him - one of the things that bothered me was that it’s a popular sing-along song for me. There are two dangers there. Once is changing it, and the other is being open for negative comparison to me. Since I thought Taylor sounded no better than I would singing that song, I considered it an awful performance.
Which led me to muse about the odd fact that one of my favorite songs to sing along with is Bridge Over Troubled Water, which led me to think a Simon & Garfunkel theme week might be entertaining.
Which brings us to this week, when Kellie did Unchained Melody, which I also particularly like to sing along with, though it’s more in the “difficult to do well” realm of Bridge Over Troubled Water than, say, Crazy Little Thing Called Love. Thus is offended me similarly to the way Taylor offended me a couple weeks back.
Anyway, only five to go. Wow! So that’s… four more weeks? Wow. Go Chris!
Friday, March 03, 2006
How to Generate Tons of Comments…
Talk about cutting your hair.
Saturday, February 11, 2006
79,997 and Counting
Quick, go visit Caltechgirl!
Friday, January 27, 2006
Awww
Saturday, December 31, 2005
36 and Pregnant… Look Out World!
Kelley is back! In a big way, you might say…
Christmas Part 1
As planned, finally, here are some of the Christmas pictures in numbers greater than one or two at a time. I believe there will be three parts to this, corresponding to having filled and emptied the camera three times that day. Why yes, I do need a bigger memory stick. Heh.
The first one shows most of our cards received. They overflowed to the other doorway, as you will see in the second picture. This includes cards from Sharon, Jennifer, Wayne, Caltechgirl, and Kate. Others on our card list included Rob, Jeff, Chan, Ith, Dean & Rosemary, Kate, Jen, Rob, Frank & Sarah, John, and Joanie. Ian will get a one after he has moved and sent me his new address. I’ll undoubtedly try to add some other blog friends to the list next year. Then if I do this post again next year, I’ll have an excuse for even more gratuitous linkage.
The second picture shows the tree and the loot before Sadie was up and at it. I think we spent four hours with her unwrapping and then playing with stuff before moving on, with the two of us incidentally unwrapping Bo Bice, some cake pans, and some sweatshirts interspersed with Sadie’s spoilage. The third picture shows her Nemo floor pillow, which is so cool. That’s what came in the giant box we didn’t bother to wrap. Her great-grandmother also sent the super deluxe Finding Nemo DVD package.
Here Sadie is emptying her stocking, and then playing with one of the balls that made up the bulk of the contents.
Next she’s opening her butterfly bedtime book, which is totally cool. She agreed. Finally, she’s opening one of three wooden puzzles, which she is crazy about, even though she’s not clear on the concept of putting the pieces back in. She takes them out, then is thrilled of someone puts them back so she can remove them again. We put the hardest one, a train, away for future reference rather than have her lose pieces before she’s ready for it.
More later.
Friday, July 01, 2005
Unyay
Poor Nin was laid off* yesterday. I know this feeling:
I knew there would be lay offs… but I didn’t think I’d be one of the lay offs.
Hey, at least she didn’t get fired for blogging.
Anyway, go over and leave some comforting words or whatever. Perhaps encourage her to blog more, in her newly copious spare time. Heh.
* This reminds me that instead of saying he was laid off, my little brother used to joke “I got laid without enjoying it.”
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
Blast From The Past
I happened to stumble upon this old post, which was my “question of the week” on baby names. Since it’s mine, I will quote in full, copyright be damned:
Question of the Week: Baby Names
This question was not inspired by Kim Crawford, whose related post I just saw. It was inspired by this post and my comment to it over at Acidman’s.
Those of you who don’t have any kids yet, do you already have any names picked out? If you never had kids after all, or now don’t expect to, do you find it disappointing not to be able to use the name(s)?
Those of you who do have kids, did you have names in mind as much as years beforehand? Is that what you ended up using, or something else?
Was there any particular inspiration for the name(s)?
Feel free to give us details! What names you like or dislike, why, what you used or planned to use, what you actually did use. I bet some of you came into a marriage with baby names already in mind, only to have to haggle with the spouse who also had names in mind.
The first comment on that post? Deb of course:
Hmmm...I don’t expect to ever have children. If I had a daughter, though, I’d want to name her Sadie, which is the name I *almost* got, after a relative of mine who was a wild woman before wild women were cool. I wouldn’t exactly say I’m disappointed that I’ll probably never get the chance, but that’s a whole ‘nother comment, as they say.
Heh. Little did she know…
So how about now? Any new or additional responses to this? The commenters included Ian, Candy, Kate, Ith, Jennifer, Rob, Ken, and Dave.
Sunday, June 26, 2005
Stuff to Read
Brent, the newest member of the Weekend Pundit team, has been blogging up a storm. If you’re looking for something to read, you might want to check it out.
Thursday, June 23, 2005
John Hoeven Meets Julie Neidlinger
Julie Neidlinger wants to get the attention of Governor John Hoeven of North Dakota. Seems like a good idea to me!
Are you a blogger? Perhaps you’d like to help her out too…
Friday, June 17, 2005
Speaking of Fertility…
Last year, in January when we were still bi-coastal, Deb e-mailed me a picture like this one by way of announcing her condition. I don’t recall it ever going on one of the blogs, though. Figured we’d do that for the next one.
I had forgotten about this, but it’s extra cool that Margi is expecting, because she and Deb are “twin sisters.” Not really, but it was a running joke because of all the things that would happen at the same time for each of them. Plus she’s just generally cool. We’re very excited for her!
Margi follows up on the original post here and here.
I thought it was interesting that they went for a confirmation appointment. With pregnancy tests these days, to me it’s more like you test, you wait long enough to be more sure if you are nervous that the squirt won’t stay implanted, you tell your doctor the news, perhaps even at your next regular appointment if it’s timed right, and you make arrangements for when the OB-like people want to start seeing you. Not that this was exactly how Sadie went, given the need to arrange insurance and all, but close enough.
Yay for Margi!
Friday, June 10, 2005
Recipe Carnival and Beyond
It’s no mere Carnival of the Recipes this week; it’s a whole linkfest! Songstress7 went to a great deal of extra trouble, reading some of the entrant’s other posts and sharing selected links to other posts from many of them. Wonderful job! Seriously, check it out. Lots of good stuff there, and she even agrees with me about Vanilla Rice.
Thursday, June 09, 2005
Overheard In Our House
Deb: “You’re so helpful...”
Jay: “I know! And I’m looking forward to months more of this!
Tuesday, June 07, 2005
BFL Roundup
Miller’s Time has a complete and nicely done Bear Flag League Roundup, if you’re looking to keep busy reading a wide variety of posts. These are getting tough to do, given the overwhelming size of the BFL anymore.
Saturday, June 04, 2005
Happy Birthdays
It’s been a busy month for blogger birthdays so far. I already noted some on the 2nd, but missed Chris Noble on the 1st and Wayne Hurlbert on the 3rd. Last but not least, today is Frank J’s birthday. Happy birthday!
Thursday, June 02, 2005
Happy Birthdays!
To Kathy, Suman, Pejman, and Bill. Did I miss anyone?
Funny how they seem to cluster like this. The next blogger birthday cluster I know of is the middle of July.
Also coming up, my father’s birthday is Sunday. I think we’re going to offer to take him to breakfast or something, as he’ll be down from Vermont. Plus it’ll be especially fun to take Sadie out now that she eats primarily “people food.” My brother’s ex and daughter have birthdays on the 7th and 10th, and of course my grandniece was yesterday.
Saturday, May 21, 2005
If My Father Could Type Right Now…*
I’d send him over to answer these questions.
A couple comments, though. First, one must be careful not to confuse politically better with quality of life better. On the latter, there is no contest. The former might be more debatable. Second, my grandmother, who turns 89 next month, loathes “the old days” and thinks it’s insane for people to pine for them and imagine they were better.
* He’s recovering from elbow surgery on his good arm.
Saturday, May 14, 2005
Well I Never Been To England, But I Kind Of Like The Beatles…
Via Steven Taylor, who got it from Althouse, here’s a fun meme, citing ten “nevers” from your life. Now to see if I can come up with ten of my own.
I’ve never…
1. Been outside of North America
2. Seen The Lion King
3. Been to Disney World or Land
4. Been hunting
5. Attended a football game
6. Owned a gun
7. Eaten caviar
8. Read all of The Hobbit
9. Taken chemistry
10. Been to a Star Trek convention
As they say, feel free to join in via comments and/or link up to this post on your own blogs.
Thursday, March 24, 2005
Naw… She’s Safe From That
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Carnival of the Vanities Is Up
Carnival of the Vanities, which I always forget to enter or link, is up at PunditGuy.
CotV was, after all, the inspiration for CotC.
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Hey Old Timer…
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Go Read Ian
I meant to point out yesterday that Ian Hamet has been blogging up a storm for a couple days, and is even more worth visiting than normal. Now he’s gone and upgraded to WordPress 1.5, which is looking good.
I have been waiting for that release before adding it to a client site I am working on, which is up to 42 static pages and counting. I plan to try using blogging software for the “news” and “careers” sections, so updates can be easily done by them. If the right people see how easy and dynamic it is, maybe I can get them to blog. But we’ll see. And I digress.
Eleventy-One Caltechgirl Things
I keep seeing things I want to blog about or link, which is kind of funny considering I have gotten easily bored with blog reading lately, for some reason, and I keep being too busy to do anything about it. However, a blog doesn’t live by Sadie alone, so I thought I would make an effort to hit one or two this morning.
Notable for being the first person I have seen using the same eleventy-one things concept I did instead of a plain old 100, Caltechgirl has done her own eleventy-one things. Better still, it is more concise and interesting than mine, which I just noticed is number one in Google for eleventy-one things, and number nine in Google for just plain eleventy-one. Cool.
She was completely unaware I had used eleventy-one, but hey, great minds and all that.
Anyway, some commentary obscure and not so much so on CTG’s list:
11 - Hate is a strong word, but yeah, I prefer mine with things like nuts.
13 - This made me laugh, but Deb was too distracted for me to go tell her about it.
19 - I love those guys, even if they aren’t my all time favorite. It would probably sound terrible to anyone else, but Bridge Over Troubled Water is quite possible my favorite sing-along song.
20 - Smart. Me too, though in my heyday it was tapes and $9 and mostly under $10.
21 - Sounds like my brother Gary. Me, kind of, but it’s also stressful.
22 - Why did I never think of that!? It’s so… me.
26 - Not convinced of the former, but certain of the latter, which probably made the former harder.
28 - Whenever something bad happens to me, I try to think of what it might be for. Which is to say, me too. I’ve seen it happen too many times.
33 - Heh. I can relate.
37 - Dude! This blew me away. I have merely read a couple of his books.
38 - One of my toppers too, and I’d buy them. Hello the TV people… you don’t cancel a program in the middle of a frikkin cliffhanger!! And then run TV movies on a cable network to tie things up! Which luckily I was able to borrow from a friend, eventually. I went through a brief Days of Our Lives addiction when he was on it, so I already liked the actor, even if the DoL storyline with him and that obnoxious doctor named Robin was stupid.
47 - I do. But I hate weeding. It goes back to that routine maintenance/repetitious tasks problem I have.
52 - Dude! Must be a Fresno thing. Deb does this so much that she has me doing it now. I believe I have even called Sadie “little dudelette” once or twice.
53 - How strange. Beatles over Stones for me, but some of the pre-1980 before they lost their way or talent or something Stones stuff is good.
64 - Hey Deb, she must secretly be a New Englandah!
67 - Could be worse. The nearest Jack in the Box to us is in… North Carolina! At least we have Trader Joe’s here, if we care to brave the traffic.
69 - This made me laugh too. Reminds me of the movie line “have you seen Mike Hunt.”
82 - Never had that problem, but we did have the “stop reading and go to sleep,” flashlight under the covers kinds of battles. I credit both parents with influencing me to be a reader. My father used to read science fiction at the table while eating supper. My mother read to us and made sure we had books.
96 - Same here!!!! We’ll see the show come on and yell at the TV “no they don’t!” as we change channels.
102 - Yup. People tend to forget these things.
110 - Conversely, I always seemed to relate better to the girls, even though my fewer, very best friends were usually guys.
111 - Yay for the right one!