I’m hoping Anne Laurie will post the weekly recipe here, because I think I deleted it.
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I’m hoping Anne Laurie will post the weekly recipe here, because I think I deleted it.
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freelancer
Hangovers are a helluva drug!
Roger Moore
You are on the way to destruction! You have no chance to survive, make your time!
dmsilev
Blargh. What an annoying day. What an annoying week. You’d think, naively, that when your workplace purchases a piece of equipment that cost as much as a small house, said equipment wouldn’t leak. Further, you’d think that once the manufacturer fixed the leak, it would stay fixed. You’d be wrong.
Gaah.
(equipment in question is a hyper-fancy refrigerator, capable of getting to within 0.01degrees of absolute zero. When it doesn’t leak)
-dms
geg6
You could make up for it by posting a Lily pic.
pcbedamned
Did I miss the “+”, or am I just reading this title wrong?!? Time to lay off the cold meds methinks…
D-Chance.
OK, this may top everything stupid today…
In short, 30 Republicans voted against an “amendment that would prohibit the Department of Defense from contracting with companies that require employees to resolve workplace complaints — including complaints of sexual assault — through private arbitration rather than the courts”.
According to Politico‘s Manu Raju, this could be very bad news for… Al Franken. I kid you not.
freelancer
@pcbedamned:
You are not aware of all internet traditions…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us
John Cole
@D-Chance.: Thanks for reminding me about that.
paradox
I had a good day, a good Veteran’s Day yesterday, tomorrow is a cruise at work. Then the weekend.
I suppose I could be happy, I can’t think of a god damn thing that would prevent it. Now what the fuck am I going to do?
demkat620
@D-Chance.: Just like how John McCain not knowing how many houses he owned was bad news for Barack Obama?
pcbedamned
@freelancer:
Thanx for the link. Hard to believe that at 40, I am just soooo uncool. Reality is harsh!
Comrade Mary
Oh, if you want old memes tonight … I’m here to protect you from the terrible secret of space.
Roger Moore
@dmsilev:
Naive is the right word. My experience is that the more expensive a piece of equipment is, finickier and less reliable it is. Stuff that costs a few hundred to a few thousand dollars can be trusted to work right the first time you try it and to be repairable by cheap technicians if it breaks down. Stuff that’s a few tens of thousands of dollars requires an engineer to install but will usually keep working reliably. Equipment in the low hundreds of thousands may well be reliable, but is expensive to fix when it breaks. Anything much more expensive than that is a nightmare to keep running unless the gods love you.
Alan
I’ve now tried the honeycrisp apples and they’re very good. They are very large apples–at least the ones at my grocery.
John Cole
@demkat620: Check my post. You and I just had a mind meld.
freelancer
@pcbedamned:
It’s okay, I’m 27 and am making great strides in the genre of not cool for my generation.
But I could honestly give a shit about the idea of cool. I think anyone that is over 23 still gives a shit about trying to be cool, they need to grow the fuck up. So no worries.
/rant.
ellaesther
Ahh! An open thread! I want to sing the praises of a Congressmember who did a good thing. And I have decided that when I want to post what will (ultimately) amount to a blog pimp, it’s ok on an open thread…. This works for my guilty conscience, and I can only hope it works for y’all.
Ahem:
Yesterday, Rep. Brian Baird (D-WA) made a bold and inspiring statement on the House floor, calling for changes in American policy on the issue of Israel/Palestine — specifically re: the war in Gaza and the Goldstone Report. As he put it, speaking before a picture of Palestinian toddlers who had been killed in the fighting: “Those children deserve to have someone ask why they were killed.”
If you live in Washington state and support a just and peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, please thank Rep. Baird for taking a principled stand in a place where such opinions are usually shouted down. Hell, even if you don’t live in Washington, send the man a note! You’ll find a video of his statement, contact information and a sample letter at my place.
(Necessary full-disclosure, in case you’ve forgotten: I’m an American-Israeli Jew and advocate for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Lived there for 14 years, have a Masters in ME studies, have researched/written about the conflict for about a quarter of a century).
General Winfield Stuck
@D-Chance.:
This is how it’s done. Slip a clever little decode into the Borg collective, then sit back and watch it all come apart.
Nice bit of clever politicking Al and dems!!
Got three movies to watch. One about Bosnia with Richard Gere, Thirteen Days with Costner, and Once Upon a Time In the West.
kommrade reproductive vigor
And who can forget the master of unlocking?
Roger Moore
@pcbedamned:
There’s an upside, too. Not being in on all the internet memes means that you’ve probably avoided a number of really disturbing ones, like goatse.cx and Two Girls, One Cup. You may never have been Rickrolled. So count your blessings.
Colette
A friend just called me with tix to see Leonard Cohen tomorrow night! I saw Cohen in April, and he was awesome. Squee!
/fangirl
pcbedamned
@freelancer:
Exactly what I tell my own teens – even the people who seem to be ‘so cool’ are uncool to someone else. Hell, even Fonzie was only ‘cool’ in the 70’s :)
demkat620
@John Cole: @John Cole: We’ve done that before.
Great minds…
AkaDad
@ellaesther:
To quell my skepticism, could you e-mail John Cole your certs?
pcbedamned
@Roger Moore:
Actually, having 2 kids who use the internet means that unfortunately I do know what those memes are (or least I least I try to know before they do – internet monitoring is KEY in this house). Their computer is right beside mine and I have parental controls established, as well as constant monitoring of their activities. They know that if I ever go to check a page and they have not provided me with the password, computer privileges are gone. Again, I love being mean mom!
ellaesther
@AkaDad: I have them — don’t you think for one minute that I don’t have them! — but the noise of the helicopters is making it very hard for me to gather them together just now.
Not that I read any of those comments. Or know anything about that commenter. Or anything.
dmsilev
@Roger Moore: Oh, I know. This thing is a plumber’s nightmare, with a whole mess of joints that have to be leak-tight even while being thermally shocked through several hundred degrees, etc. I just didn’t think a bad weld would be the failure point.
Fortunately, it’s still under warranty.
-dms
AkaDad
@ellaesther:
Fair enough. Laughing helicopters are always an acceptable excuse.
E-mail Cole something anyway. He likes that.
Anne Laurie
@Colette:
If you’re trying to make me jealous, you’ve succeeded! I’ve been a Cohen fan since the 1970s but never seen him perform. Although this is probably a good place to reiterate that Live in London is an excellent introduction to Cohen’s amazing poetry / performance skills, and deserves a place in his every fan’s collection.
Anne Laurie
P.S. I will post the Thursday Night Menu in an hour or so, after people have the chance to read Soonergrunt’s front-paged Afghanistan essay.
kommrade reproductive vigor
What does John say when his cat jumps on the table?
ellaesther
@AkaDad: (Also, just for serious for a minute, if anyone wants to learn more about why I feel free to go on about this stuff, they can go to the About page on my blog, and then google me until the cows come home. My certs are waving in the breeze for all to see, I promise!)
pcbedamned
@kommrade reproductive vigor:
Classic!!!
Needs to be THE pic for the next open thread. Or any thread for that matter.
General Winfield Stuck
@ellaesther:
Some of our most frisky threads, to put it mildly, have been on the Israeli-Palestinian struggle. And I am sure we will have more of them when events dictate.
freelancer
@pcbedamned:
Barry Zuckercorn is kickass. You shut ‘cher god damn face!
IndyLib
@kommrade reproductive vigor:
LOL
pcbedamned
@freelancer:
Granted. But mention “Fonzie” and wait for the response you get by anyone under 35…
burnspbesq
Hurley and Laettner are excited that the new season starts tomorrow night. They are hoping that when the top prospect in the high school class of 2010, Harrison Barnes from Ames, Iowa, makes his announcement tomorrow, he picks the real color blue and not that weak shit from down the road.
They have also discovered a new playground – the roof. The access route is a palm tree by the front corner of the house.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/burnspbesq/hurleyinpalmtree08nov09.jpg
Just Some Fuckhead
John, I’m gonna say this because BHF is too nice to say it. You are totally failing her.
freelancer
@pcbedamned:
You mean that guy from the Weezer video?
Laura W
@burnspbesq: They are so beautiful and fun to track.
Can you set up some sort of photo stream like we do on flickr so when I click thru to this one photo I could just spend many more blissful moments tracking their wonderful new forever home life?
(See Ahab/Momo/Henry if you need help.)
burnspbesq
@Laura W:
Let me see what I can do about that.
Laura W
@Laura W: Ahab! I originally spelled his name “Henri” but corrected it based on the photo I linked to and if I had a 5 min edit window like I USED to have before that last big “upgrade” (ie, downgrade) and the purchase of the one year “maintenance” (ie, huh?) contract, I coulda corrected it.
I seriously hope John is suing those people. Or at least yelling at them in his most stern outside voice and writing a very terse letter.
pcbedamned
@freelancer:
My point exactly.
On another topic the 2009 weblogs are open for nominations. Time to do for BJ like we did with Betsy.
burnspbesq
When he picks up on little goodies like this, I start to think that Charles Johnson is eventually going to be one of us.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/35130_RNC_Insurance_is_Pro-Choice
Martin
Make sure you all check your cellular statement carefully:
Just Some Fuckhead
@pcbedamned:
Invest ourselves emotionally before swallowing the bitter pill of loss?
I’m sorry, but my well has run dry.
Earl
Gotta point this out.