Archive for March, 2006

Lovin’ It Like McDonalds

Friday, March 31st, 2006

Now, we’ve caught Bush and his administration stone cold lying. No, seriously: “Bush Was Set on Path to War, British Memo Says” (NYT 3-27-06 Don Van Natta JR). We got him. Carved in stone tablets, practically.
So. Um, don’t we get to have a trial-type-thingie now? I mean, we impeached Clinton over a blow job, and, [...]

Wednesday Riddles

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

First, happy birthday to my husband, Artavatar. Love you, sweetie!
After a long day of copy&pasting, “categories” are now “functional”. Both words get quotes because this is, like, the most hacked, spaghetti-programming, crapola way I’ve ever seen of getting category functionality out of a blog. But, [...]

Tall Tale Tuesday: Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

Today’s tall tale comes from American Folklore. It’s a retelling by S. E. Schlosser, titled “Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett Bests Mike Fink”.
Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett Bests Mike Fink
S. E. Schlosser
Davy Crockett done married the prettiest, the sassiest, the toughest gal in the West, don’t ya know! Her name was Sally Ann [...]

Punday Night: Benny in the Desert

Monday, March 27th, 2006

Well! Thus far, I have discovered that, in order to do categories neatly and easily, the way I’d like them, you pretty much have to pay for it. Ha! Maybe later, when I’m a wildly popular celebrity blogger with thousands of hits everyday. For the moment, though, categories will have to involve a labor-intensive system [...]

Customers Suck: Coffee, and A Cup of Clam Chowder.

Sunday, March 26th, 2006

I’ve made a few changes to my layout — thanks go to Martijn ten Napel for the original layout, which was extremely purple. I made it signifigantly less purple, which I think we can all agree, is a good thing.
Also, over on the right-side menu, there, you can see a spot labeled “categories”, which is [...]

The Vicious Circle

Friday, March 17th, 2006

First, go read this, by OldMotherChaos on LiveJournal.
Now, I’d like to introduce you to the tediously-named Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill. You can find it here on the UK Government website: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmbills/111/06111.1-4.html
You probably haven’t heard of it before, unless you’re a habitual political activist. You should have, though. The Bill had its second reading in [...]

Getting Older Sucks

Sunday, March 12th, 2006

Alas, I’m nearly thirty, and getting pudgy. Now that vacation is over, and I’ve got no more excuses, I’m afraid there shall have to be dieting and excersize. More excersize than dieting, because I don’t so much need to lose weight as tone up. Less of the dieting, and more [...]

Vacation Reading & Book Reviews

Saturday, March 11th, 2006

Well, today is the last day of a lovely vacation. We didn’t do much, but we had fun doing it! We had a really nice dinner at my folks’ place, to celebrate our anniversary, and bought ceiling fans with lights for the house, out of our Christmas gift certificates.

We have a fan that matches the [...]

Linktastic

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

As if the world couldn’t get any shittier, check this junk out: Via Orac Knows, I heard about arsonists targeting the building for the Holocaust History Project. (Press Release, Crappy News Article With No Actual Information.) The fire came in addition to a DDoS (dedicated denial of service) attack against [...]

Anniversaries, Pictures, Puns, Tales, and Riddles

Wednesday, March 8th, 2006

Artavatar and I are celebrating our 4th wedding anniversary tonight, as well as the 6th anniversary of our first date, and the fifth anniversary of his proposal to me. (We figured if we kept it all on the same date, we might manage to remember it. Heh.)

Walter

Laura

Cleo

Grimshaw and Jasmin

In honor of the anniversary — and [...]