Archive for August, 2007
I suddenly realized I’ve done a poor job of paying attention to the actual positions of several candidates. Both sides, really, since as I’ve said more than once I’m independent and vote for the candidate I think is best. In my laziness lies an opportunity which may bore all two or three of my readers [...]
So, my daughter and wife want to play the wii on the big screen (projection). The 10-foot cord from the box to the sensor bar is waaaay too short. I did some research, however, and discovered a few things. Basically, the only thing the sensor bar does is provide a point of reference — actually, [...]
From the Union Trib in San Diego comes this gem. Here’s the nutshell.
Eight marines were charged with kidnapping and killing an Iraqi man, then conducting a coverup to hide the crime, all back in November of 2006.
Five of the marines pled to lesser charges in exchange for testimony or guilty to earn a reduced [...]
The first pie crust I ever successfully made, I made with the guidance of my grandmother. I’d carefully followed recipe after recipe, exactly measuring fat and flour and water, and … bleah. Then I learned the old-fashioned measure.
Start with two large handfuls of flour. Add a glop of fat, and cut it in till the [...]
In the August 3 edition of the USA Today was an article that said that when the three soldiers were kidnapped in May, communications couldn’t be tapped while a warrant was sought. “The Bush administration and its allies, the Associated Press has learned, have argued that the legal work ate up precious hours because [...]
Let me start by saying the Democratic party is facing the flipside of the Republican party’s problem. It’s going to be a (near) banner year. So what the party’s candidates are facing is not the bedrock voters but the plenitude of ‘fair-weather’ voters. The handle for these is going to be looser [...]
When I put out bids for a job – say, building a new house – I get a bunch of offers that estimate time and cost for the job’s completion. I select a jobber based on these estimates.
When the job is complex, the project may run over time and budget. Depending on a [...]
liv·id liv-id
enraged; furiously angry: Willful stupidity makes me absolutely livid.
I’m no longer incoherent about what our congress did about the FISA renewal and extension. Just livid.
Not, actually, because of the extra things allowed - the ability to listen to a conversation as long as one side is foreign, without warrant, without probable cause, merely because [...]
One of the things that’s known but keeps being, well, forgotten, is that our energy use can be broken into two very important categories: That which is going to a fixed (or immobile) site, and that which is used for mobility.
There are a lot of really smart people out there who have demonstrated that ethanol [...]
I expect the recent actions by the California Secretary of State to make a lot of noise soon. So for a change I’ll try to beat the rush.
To put it simply, she got rid of most touch-screen systems. the ones she recertified were done with severe restrictions.
I expect much of the same noise I heard [...]
