cliff just bit his tongue screaming at the f’n tv again….
…sigh…(ouch) @#$%^!!! $&^%!!!
4.
MeDrewNotYou
Finished Dune, it was awesome, but had a totally infuriating ending. I can barely wait to head to the library Monday (Sunday being the Sabbath and Peyton Manning and the Colts being the Lord, or at least his representatives on Earth) to continue the series.
I really grew to dislike Paul as time went on. He wasn’t exactly a ‘bad guy,’ but just not someone I could sympathize with and who seemed by the end to be perfectly fine with the destiny he was previously dead-set against coming to pass. Of course, this is something the series develops later, so I’ll just have to wait and see. The same to a lesser extent with Jessica, who I started out as really liking; by the end, she seemed less the loving mother and more the Bene Gesserit focused on her own schemes. Same thing with waiting to see how that works out. None of this is to say I didn’t love the book and highly recommend it. (I didn’t mind having seen the old 1980s movie with Patrick Stewart and Sting first. It was pretty good, but far different enough from the book that I didn’t feel anything was really spoiled.)
@Cliff: I can’t watch the whole thing. My heart doesn’t need the indignation. I read what asshole King said–what an idiot. I’m re-watching Colbert’s section. He’s brilliant.
ETA: I read what King said in reference to Colbert.
@stuckinred: You or me? I actually took a nap earlier, so I’m up for at least a few more hours. Sigh. How are you this morning?
14.
stuckinred
@asiangrrlMN: You, I’m just getting going. Saturday is bakery, farmer’s market, swim, sit on my ass for 12 hours starting with the Hokies and ending with the Dawgs! How bout’s you?
We watched the Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky film last night, I knew John Stravinsky in Champaign in the 70’s so that was fun.
@stuckinred: Full day for you! Right now, I’m blogging. Then, tai chi class and checking in on a friend’s kittehs. Then, sitting on MY ass watching whatever game interests me for about, yeah, twelve hours!
@asiangrrlMN: The smurf turf crew vs OSU should be good but I’ve gotten pretty spolied with the SEC down heah! Looks like there is a race between Tim Brewster and the Zooker to see who gets fired first.
@Cliff: You suck. You figured since you had to sit through it, so should I? Now I’m screaming with you (though internally). He has the fucking gall to talk about how downtrodden the American workers are? The balls on him! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Yeah, rusty pitchfork to the hinterlands on that one. Full disclosure: I couldn’t make it through the whole thing–I just couldn’t. I skipped the last minute of his bilge.
@stuckinred: You know, I love me the SEC. I have no idea why, but I do. And, since I’m a baseball gal at heart, I’mma watch the national baseball–oh wait. Red Sox v. Yanks? I’ll skip it.
@Cliff: The latter, unfortunately. Plus a bunch of really stupid people and a bunch of apathetic ones. It’s not pretty right now.
22.
stuckinred
@asiangrrlMN: You love the SEC because it’s the best. I had good friends that played at Illinois and I’ll always be a die hard Illini but living here for 26 years makes me keenly aware of the difference in talent and passion. Of course it’s nice to be able to walk to Sanford Stadium for home games!
I wrote a piece of custom software on an insanely tight schedule, and had the client insist on a bunch of spec changes AFTER we went beta…I’m going to spend tomorrow watching the system crash and burn.
30.
Ash Can
On tap for this weekend is one more Cubs game today, last one of the season for us. We’ve had these tickets since April, and we’ll be damned if we aren’t going to use them, even though it’s just painful to watch these guys at this point. Wait’ll next year.
31.
El Cid
Our next Senator from Delaware, ladies and gentlemen, we present to you, via Bill Maher and Juan Cole, Coven Highness Christine Don’t Touch You Know What O’Donnell, Super-Genius, expounding on current scientific understanding, by way of country folk biology:
O’Donnell: Evolution is a myth, and even Darwin himself…
__ Maher: Have you ever looked at a monkey?
__ O’Donnell: Then why aren’t monkeys… still evolving into humans?
She can believe witchcraft is real, but evolution is just a bit too much to believe in.
And she don’t see no monkeys wearing suits and walking around, neither, except for the GOPers she wants to work with and watch where their hands are and of course the ones in tricorner hats and teabags hanging from them carrying OBAMA = MEAN TAKE BANANA WANT BANANA BACK signs.
@rachel: Look, in high school she dabbled in sheep, in fact on her first date she went to a sheep cemetery and saw a lamb sacrifice. But everyone does that in high school.
@El Cid: But now she wants to stop the screaming of the lambs.
35.
leinie
OMG. ESPN College GameDay is broadcasting about 4 blocks north of my house, at the stadium on the Blue Turf. This town has lost its mind. There is no on street parking left around the house, the slamming car doors woke me up. I guess people were in line at midnight. The Broncos better win this game tonight.
Guess I might have to turn on the tee vee and watch the show.
Gonna do a 50 mile bicycle ride out in a nice hilly part of VT. Great time of year to be outside as the fall foliage is really starting to look beautiful up here.
She can believe witchcraft is real, but evolution is just a bit too much to believe in.
And climate change science is all a bunch of hooey because it was very chilly last night.
39.
El Cid
I started to watch Real Time with Bill Maher, and he had Andrew Breitbart and Amy Holmes on with Seth McFarland, and after those shits repeating “Obamacare” like 500 times in a row, I have to bail again.
I guess I’ll just settle for Christine O’Donnell clips others find.
40.
El Cid
@The Grand Panjandrum: Humans can’t affect the climate because the Urf’s so big, and also over millions of years temperatures have been way higher and way cooler, and also the Urf only is about 6,000 years old any way.
It’s a long pants day outside–lo 50s, but sunny for now–so after I feed the four-legged alarm clocks, I’m going to work outside for a while. I need to harvest and paper-bag the last of the tomatoes, then salvage what curly parsley and sweet basil that I can and see if there’s enough for a batch of pesto. Cut down and bag the tomato greenery–two of them have the blight, so I need to clean out the raised bed. Then I need to process some ripened tomatoes, *then* see if there are any crabapples worth picking so I can make another batch of slow cooker crabapple chutney, which I think has become my new ketchup. It’s even good on hot dogs, and wunnerful on a chicken sandwich.
Then, the side job. Which should be my primary focus of the day except that Tomatoes Wait For No One.
My wife told me that Maher was on but when I saw that Breitbart was a guest I went back to work in the garage. Maher is ok most of the time but I will never watch anything with Breitbart on it.
I would rather watch dog shit on a sidewalk dry out on a sunny day.
43.
frosty
Off to go canvassing this morning, then I dunno, probably start scraping the garage siding so we can paint it. Unless it’s another “normal” 90+ degree September day here in the Piedmont, then I’ll find something inside that needs to be fixed. After that, nothing much. Watch the Ravens tomorrow.
Hey, but at least I’m not going to work this weekend! I’m sick of insane deadlines and 55 hour weeks.
Gonna hit the farmer’s market, go to a friend’s charity luncheon thing, and then maybe out for drinks with friends. I love having weekends at home for once. We spent half this summer on the road.
I’m going to pick shit with the chickens till the cows come home. That’s what my granpda used to say before fetching the moonshine jug behind a rock where he hid it from my teetotalling bible thumpin’ granny.
Making a big pot (5doz.) of venison and chicken tamales for the Arkansas/Alabama showdown in Fayetteville. Winner should have a leg up on the Western Conference title, but in the SEC, nothing is ever certain. Should be a doozie! Better get to rollin’ shucks if I want to be ready by game time. Go Hawgs!
Under capitalism, labor is a commodity, to be bought and sold.
I’d like an economic system based on limited partnerships: Several of us get together and build this very desirable widget, sell it, and split the loot evenly. We could base the distribution on amount of effort expended or time with the partnership or something.
Making a big pot (5doz.) of venison and chicken tamales
Oooooooh! I’ll be right over!
Best tamales I ever had was Tulsa, Oklahoma. Sold on Friday nights [payday for lots of folks] by a one-legged Mexican dude. He probably didn’t have a license and so was not in the same place all the time. You had to drive up and down the streets in that part of town until you found him. Big puppies, real corn husks, obviously hand rolled. Very reasonably priced.
Tamale-on-breath sex probably kept my marriage together for as long as it lasted. We moved out of Tulsa, lost our tamale guy, and the marriage went to hell.
Ah, the magic of paydays and tamales.
51.
SiubhanDuinne
@Skepticat #37:
Chellie Pingree looks like she’s wearing novocaine lipstick.
h/t to the late, great Fred Allen, who said it 50 years ago about Dorothy Kilgallen. You youngsters out there won’t get the reference, so just get off my lawn.
Publishers were put on notice on Friday when a divided State Board of Education vowed to reject textbooks with a pro-Islamic and anti-Christian slant, sending a message that critics say promotes fear and prejudice.
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The resolution, approved by a 7-6 vote, says that multiple world history textbooks are tainted with views that demonize Christianity and favor Islam.
The pain just doesn’t end, does it? It really just never stops.
Tamale-on-breath sex probably kept my marriage together for as long as it lasted. We moved out of Tulsa, lost our tamale guy, and the marriage went to hell.
Yeah, I’ve kept a few relationships viable via homemade tamales myself. At least for while. Still get some “for old times sake” action if word gets around I’m stiring up a pot. Havin’ trouble fillin’ your social calendar? Learn to make a good tamale. You’ll get invited to everything!
54.
Skepticat
@SiubhanDuinne: I hadn’t heard that line (though I’m certainly old enough to have caught it live). I’ll be using that one again!
I didn’t realize that Pingree was about to marry a billionaire, which could color my impression of her (envy, ya know). However, I heard an interview with her and one with her opponent on the local NPR station, and having just moved back to Maine after three decades plus, I have to hurry and register to vote. She sounded eminently sensible, and the opponent kept loudly and tightly to the “repeal health care” and “cut taxes” lines. Plus, he whines.
55.
Onkel Bob
Weekend? Arbeit mach frei! (or perhaps in my job, arbeit cures cancer because that’s what we do.(?) Nahh, we’re just dev bio researchers who are affiliated with a cancer center … They only tolerate us because the NIH wouldn’t give them money if not for us. Me be making Excel spreadsheets charting GFP in wild type and mutant mouse embryos.)
Anywho, I only came by to say that it seems the villagers don’t know they live in the village and like to punch hippies.
56.
SiubhanDuinne
@Skepticat: I’m older than even I thought, and misremembered the source. It wasn’t Fred Allen, it was Jack Paar.
I’m pretty sure.
Anyhow, it was and is a great line.
57.
burnspbesq
Update: I have some cool new tunes to listen to while I’m working. Jane Monheit has a new record out, with Mark O’Connor and Frank Vignola on several tracks. And there’s a new record from one of my all-time faves, Richard Barone. Squeeeee!!!
Right now I’m blasting one of my favorite Saturday morning wake-up tracks, “Best Wishes” from Road Shows Vol. 1 by Sonny Rollins.
58.
Dennis SGMM
Recovering from back surgery so, not the usual hiking or surfing. No strenuous hiking and no surfing at all until some time this Spring, actually. I’m drawing up a bill of parts for the new box to run Blender. Can’t decide whether GPU-based rendering is actually going to be good enough in the near future to take the good the good time and expense of running two video cards. I don’t play any high frame rate games so there’s no other need for the things.
Despite the discomfort and the long list of the things that I can’t do for a while I’m very, very, grateful that we have top-notch health insurance. Our out of pocket cost for all of the tests, the surgery and the prescriptions has been less than two hundred bucks.
burnspbesq
The local audio society is sponsoring a record swap meet on Sunday, and I have to pull tax info together for the CPA. And work. And work.
Malovich
Dear sweet Zombie Jeezus.
Steven Colbert testified in front of Congress.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/09/colbert-testifies-on-ag-jobs-bill-like-most-members-of-congress-i-havent-read-it-videos.php
It made my weekend.
via http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/
Cliff
According to a recent report:
cliff just bit his tongue screaming at the f’n tv again….
…sigh…(ouch) @#$%^!!! $&^%!!!
MeDrewNotYou
Finished Dune, it was awesome, but had a totally infuriating ending. I can barely wait to head to the library Monday (Sunday being the Sabbath and Peyton Manning and the Colts being the Lord, or at least his representatives on Earth) to continue the series.
I really grew to dislike Paul as time went on. He wasn’t exactly a ‘bad guy,’ but just not someone I could sympathize with and who seemed by the end to be perfectly fine with the destiny he was previously dead-set against coming to pass. Of course, this is something the series develops later, so I’ll just have to wait and see. The same to a lesser extent with Jessica, who I started out as really liking; by the end, she seemed less the loving mother and more the Bene Gesserit focused on her own schemes. Same thing with waiting to see how that works out. None of this is to say I didn’t love the book and highly recommend it. (I didn’t mind having seen the old 1980s movie with Patrick Stewart and Sting first. It was pretty good, but far different enough from the book that I didn’t feel anything was really spoiled.)
Exhaustion for now, so good night/morning!
asiangrrlMN
@Malovich: And he made some very good points while being funny. Yep.
@Cliff: Um, why you screaming at your TV?
So, who is still up, and who just got up?
Cliff
@Malovich:
full hearing, none of that short clippy bull $#!t.
http://www.c-span.org/Watch/Media/2010/09/24/HP/A/38516/House+Judiciary+Subcmte+Hearing+on+Immigration+and+Farm+Labor.aspx
2 Hrs 10 Min
Cliff
Cause my tv aint a tv, so I see recorded S#!T. Like the latest Real Time.
losingtheplot
Real Ale Festival! Beer all day!! 15 microbreweries!! Yippee!!
asiangrrlMN
@Cliff: Ah. Got it. I saw the complaints about the show in a thread below. Scream away.
Cliff
@asiangrrlMN:
If ya wanna scream, listen to that steve king asshole, its right up the front, you can contrast it with Colberts comments have been reported.
F’U King, My grandads home-made in Iowa rusty pitchfork is ready for you, you fck!
full hearing, none of that short clippy bull $#!t.
http://www.c-span.org/Watch/Me…..Labor.aspx
2 Hrs 10 Min
asiangrrlMN
@Cliff: I can’t watch the whole thing. My heart doesn’t need the indignation. I read what asshole King said–what an idiot. I’m re-watching Colbert’s section. He’s brilliant.
ETA: I read what King said in reference to Colbert.
stuckinred
@asiangrrlMN: UP pretty late. . .
asiangrrlMN
@stuckinred: You or me? I actually took a nap earlier, so I’m up for at least a few more hours. Sigh. How are you this morning?
stuckinred
@asiangrrlMN: You, I’m just getting going. Saturday is bakery, farmer’s market, swim, sit on my ass for 12 hours starting with the Hokies and ending with the Dawgs! How bout’s you?
We watched the Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky film last night, I knew John Stravinsky in Champaign in the 70’s so that was fun.
asiangrrlMN
@stuckinred: Full day for you! Right now, I’m blogging. Then, tai chi class and checking in on a friend’s kittehs. Then, sitting on MY ass watching whatever game interests me for about, yeah, twelve hours!
Cliff
@asiangrrlMN:
No you didn’t, I’m talking bout his opening remarks, which may or may not of influenced Colberts later “prepared” remarks…
kings stupid statement @ ~7:40-14:10 in the full hearing.
ps: I re-listentened to the whole bs thing just for you .. – cheers –
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
stuckinred
@asiangrrlMN: The smurf turf crew vs OSU should be good but I’ve gotten pretty spolied with the SEC down heah! Looks like there is a race between Tim Brewster and the Zooker to see who gets fired first.
Cliff
@Cliff:
FYWP, I can’t edit my own comment?? FYWP!!!!!
– sorry for the no spaces scream of frustration after listening to Kink twice in a row.
asiangrrlMN
@Cliff: You suck. You figured since you had to sit through it, so should I? Now I’m screaming with you (though internally). He has the fucking gall to talk about how downtrodden the American workers are? The balls on him! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Yeah, rusty pitchfork to the hinterlands on that one. Full disclosure: I couldn’t make it through the whole thing–I just couldn’t. I skipped the last minute of his bilge.
@stuckinred: You know, I love me the SEC. I have no idea why, but I do. And, since I’m a baseball gal at heart, I’mma watch the national baseball–oh wait. Red Sox v. Yanks? I’ll skip it.
@Cliff: Kink? Ha! Good one.
Cliff
ps, why is it just us traders and a very few bloggers that give a f’ ’bout this stuff?
WHERE IS THE MEDIA?!?!
oh, wait, the media is US.
US get it guys? IT’S UP TO YOU!!
is this a country, or a group of fuck u I got mine?
WTF?
asiangrrlMN
@Cliff: The latter, unfortunately. Plus a bunch of really stupid people and a bunch of apathetic ones. It’s not pretty right now.
stuckinred
@asiangrrlMN: You love the SEC because it’s the best. I had good friends that played at Illinois and I’ll always be a die hard Illini but living here for 26 years makes me keenly aware of the difference in talent and passion. Of course it’s nice to be able to walk to Sanford Stadium for home games!
asiangrrlMN
@stuckinred: This is true. I just get revved for a, say, Alabama/Arkansas game in a way that is almost unholy. And, I love LSU. Go, SEC!
stuckinred
@asiangrrlMN: Aite, we’re off. Have a good one. Go Dawgs!
asiangrrlMN
@stuckinred: Talk to you later! And, I’m outie, too.
Cliff
@asiangrrlMN:
well, sorry, there is more. AAARRGHHHHH!!! listened twice yet again!(to intro) (ugh, thank fsm its a weekend so I can do this BS)
oh blow it I cant report all the bullshit, sadly you gotta just watch the whole thing it looks like, its all Full of BS.
21-22:30 colbert’s point being made for him
cont’
Cliff
23:00 – hey king, you a stupid f’r? – 24: kink: oooh pay ’em more!! – labor is a commodity!
Really d’wad? can I buy futures on that? oh, what, labor isn’t a commodity (ahem – slaves) No, FU labor is NOT a commodity. F You! (24:21)
…… time passes …
personal comments included…
Cliff
ARRGHHH I’m done for now at 31min.
F this asshole dan lungren terrorist terrrrrreeeerrist!!!
I’ll get back at it later, prob won’t report it to y’all tho.
g’nite, oh wait, the suns up, time for the morning walk and feed b4 I sleep for a bit.
g’morning!
Joey Maloney
I wrote a piece of custom software on an insanely tight schedule, and had the client insist on a bunch of spec changes AFTER we went beta…I’m going to spend tomorrow watching the system crash and burn.
Ash Can
On tap for this weekend is one more Cubs game today, last one of the season for us. We’ve had these tickets since April, and we’ll be damned if we aren’t going to use them, even though it’s just painful to watch these guys at this point. Wait’ll next year.
El Cid
Our next Senator from Delaware, ladies and gentlemen, we present to you, via Bill Maher and Juan Cole, Coven Highness Christine Don’t Touch You Know What O’Donnell, Super-Genius, expounding on current scientific understanding, by way of country folk biology:
She can believe witchcraft is real, but evolution is just a bit too much to believe in.
And she don’t see no monkeys wearing suits and walking around, neither, except for the GOPers she wants to work with and watch where their hands are and of course the ones in tricorner hats and teabags hanging from them carrying OBAMA = MEAN TAKE BANANA WANT BANANA BACK signs.
rachel
@El Cid: Speaking of Christine O’Donnell… Demon sheep, anyone?
El Cid
@rachel: Look, in high school she dabbled in sheep, in fact on her first date she went to a sheep cemetery and saw a lamb sacrifice. But everyone does that in high school.
kommrade reproductive vigor
Phucking Pherrets, how do they work?
@El Cid: But now she wants to stop the screaming of the lambs.
leinie
OMG. ESPN College GameDay is broadcasting about 4 blocks north of my house, at the stadium on the Blue Turf. This town has lost its mind. There is no on street parking left around the house, the slamming car doors woke me up. I guess people were in line at midnight. The Broncos better win this game tonight.
Guess I might have to turn on the tee vee and watch the show.
The Grand Panjandrum
Gonna do a 50 mile bicycle ride out in a nice hilly part of VT. Great time of year to be outside as the fall foliage is really starting to look beautiful up here.
Skepticat
Just lucky that I was not injured by the explosion of my irony meter.
http://www.pressherald.com/news/pingree-takes-heat-for-jet-use_2010-09-24.html
The Grand Panjandrum
@El Cid:
And climate change science is all a bunch of hooey because it was very chilly last night.
El Cid
I started to watch Real Time with Bill Maher, and he had Andrew Breitbart and Amy Holmes on with Seth McFarland, and after those shits repeating “Obamacare” like 500 times in a row, I have to bail again.
I guess I’ll just settle for Christine O’Donnell clips others find.
El Cid
@The Grand Panjandrum: Humans can’t affect the climate because the Urf’s so big, and also over millions of years temperatures have been way higher and way cooler, and also the Urf only is about 6,000 years old any way.
Kristine
It’s a long pants day outside–lo 50s, but sunny for now–so after I feed the four-legged alarm clocks, I’m going to work outside for a while. I need to harvest and paper-bag the last of the tomatoes, then salvage what curly parsley and sweet basil that I can and see if there’s enough for a batch of pesto. Cut down and bag the tomato greenery–two of them have the blight, so I need to clean out the raised bed. Then I need to process some ripened tomatoes, *then* see if there are any crabapples worth picking so I can make another batch of slow cooker crabapple chutney, which I think has become my new ketchup. It’s even good on hot dogs, and wunnerful on a chicken sandwich.
Then, the side job. Which should be my primary focus of the day except that Tomatoes Wait For No One.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@El Cid:
My wife told me that Maher was on but when I saw that Breitbart was a guest I went back to work in the garage. Maher is ok most of the time but I will never watch anything with Breitbart on it.
I would rather watch dog shit on a sidewalk dry out on a sunny day.
frosty
Off to go canvassing this morning, then I dunno, probably start scraping the garage siding so we can paint it. Unless it’s another “normal” 90+ degree September day here in the Piedmont, then I’ll find something inside that needs to be fixed. After that, nothing much. Watch the Ravens tomorrow.
Hey, but at least I’m not going to work this weekend! I’m sick of insane deadlines and 55 hour weeks.
Athenae
A bag full of ferrets! HURRAH!
Gonna hit the farmer’s market, go to a friend’s charity luncheon thing, and then maybe out for drinks with friends. I love having weekends at home for once. We spent half this summer on the road.
A.
General Stuck
I’m going to pick shit with the chickens till the cows come home. That’s what my granpda used to say before fetching the moonshine jug behind a rock where he hid it from my teetotalling bible thumpin’ granny.
Linda Featheringill
@burnspbesq:
Also gotta work. You won’t be alone in the world.
rachel
@El Cid: How soon they forget. :(
2th&nayle
Making a big pot (5doz.) of venison and chicken tamales for the Arkansas/Alabama showdown in Fayetteville. Winner should have a leg up on the Western Conference title, but in the SEC, nothing is ever certain. Should be a doozie! Better get to rollin’ shucks if I want to be ready by game time. Go Hawgs!
Linda Featheringill
@Cliff:
Under capitalism, labor is a commodity, to be bought and sold.
I’d like an economic system based on limited partnerships: Several of us get together and build this very desirable widget, sell it, and split the loot evenly. We could base the distribution on amount of effort expended or time with the partnership or something.
Linda Featheringill
@2th&nayle:
Oooooooh! I’ll be right over!
Best tamales I ever had was Tulsa, Oklahoma. Sold on Friday nights [payday for lots of folks] by a one-legged Mexican dude. He probably didn’t have a license and so was not in the same place all the time. You had to drive up and down the streets in that part of town until you found him. Big puppies, real corn husks, obviously hand rolled. Very reasonably priced.
Tamale-on-breath sex probably kept my marriage together for as long as it lasted. We moved out of Tulsa, lost our tamale guy, and the marriage went to hell.
Ah, the magic of paydays and tamales.
SiubhanDuinne
@Skepticat #37:
Chellie Pingree looks like she’s wearing novocaine lipstick.
h/t to the late, great Fred Allen, who said it 50 years ago about Dorothy Kilgallen. You youngsters out there won’t get the reference, so just get off my lawn.
Kryptik
Just to note, jumping off the post 2 days ago about the latest round of idiocy to spawn from the Texas BoE, well….
“Tone down Islam in textbooks, ed board says: 7-6 vote warns publishers; critics slam state school panel”
The pain just doesn’t end, does it? It really just never stops.
2th&nayle
@Linda Featheringill:
Yeah, I’ve kept a few relationships viable via homemade tamales myself. At least for while. Still get some “for old times sake” action if word gets around I’m stiring up a pot. Havin’ trouble fillin’ your social calendar? Learn to make a good tamale. You’ll get invited to everything!
Skepticat
@SiubhanDuinne: I hadn’t heard that line (though I’m certainly old enough to have caught it live). I’ll be using that one again!
I didn’t realize that Pingree was about to marry a billionaire, which could color my impression of her (envy, ya know). However, I heard an interview with her and one with her opponent on the local NPR station, and having just moved back to Maine after three decades plus, I have to hurry and register to vote. She sounded eminently sensible, and the opponent kept loudly and tightly to the “repeal health care” and “cut taxes” lines. Plus, he whines.
Onkel Bob
Weekend? Arbeit mach frei! (or perhaps in my job, arbeit cures cancer because that’s what we do.(?) Nahh, we’re just dev bio researchers who are affiliated with a cancer center … They only tolerate us because the NIH wouldn’t give them money if not for us. Me be making Excel spreadsheets charting GFP in wild type and mutant mouse embryos.)
Anywho, I only came by to say that it seems the villagers don’t know they live in the village and like to punch hippies.
SiubhanDuinne
@Skepticat: I’m older than even I thought, and misremembered the source. It wasn’t Fred Allen, it was Jack Paar.
I’m pretty sure.
Anyhow, it was and is a great line.
burnspbesq
Update: I have some cool new tunes to listen to while I’m working. Jane Monheit has a new record out, with Mark O’Connor and Frank Vignola on several tracks. And there’s a new record from one of my all-time faves, Richard Barone. Squeeeee!!!
Right now I’m blasting one of my favorite Saturday morning wake-up tracks, “Best Wishes” from Road Shows Vol. 1 by Sonny Rollins.
Dennis SGMM
Recovering from back surgery so, not the usual hiking or surfing. No strenuous hiking and no surfing at all until some time this Spring, actually. I’m drawing up a bill of parts for the new box to run Blender. Can’t decide whether GPU-based rendering is actually going to be good enough in the near future to take the good the good time and expense of running two video cards. I don’t play any high frame rate games so there’s no other need for the things.
Despite the discomfort and the long list of the things that I can’t do for a while I’m very, very, grateful that we have top-notch health insurance. Our out of pocket cost for all of the tests, the surgery and the prescriptions has been less than two hundred bucks.
Mnemosyne
@Ash Can:
Here’s a little song for you from the late great Steve Goodman. I think you know the tune.
asiangrrlMN
@Cliff: Why, man? Why would you do that to yourself? On a Saturday, no less?