Day 428: First Television, Now Halloween
Posted on October 31, 2006 - Filed Under WTF, computing & internet, food & drink, funny, new orleans | Leave a Comment
The System just wants to take the fun out of everything.
GMail’s “helpful” web clip based on incoming emails regarding Halloween: 10 Fun Alternatives To Halloween Candy
These deflaters include “Way cool Halloween stickers,” noisemakers and small bottles of bubbles. How about a boot to the head while they’re at it? Obviously the author of said article […]
Posted on October 31, 2006 - Filed Under blurbs, movies/tv | 1 Comment
Modern television is determined to keep the boob in tube. After just one season, NBC will more than likely pull the plug on Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip. Apparently, they cannot compete with CSI: Miami which air(head)s during the same timeslot on CBS. Don’t get me wrong: I love even the corniest of detective […]
Read More..>>Day 428: The Nearest Book Meme
Posted on October 31, 2006 - Filed Under books, computing & internet | 2 Comments
Rules:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don’t you dare dig for that “cool” or “intellectual” book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is […]
Day 428: Do Do That Voodoo That You Do
Posted on October 31, 2006 - Filed Under music, new orleans, pictures | 1 Comment
Are you ready for All Hallow’s Eve? I am! Hooray for Halloween in New Orleans after a two three-year break! [H 2003 - here; H 2004 - spent in a Gatwick airport hotel as flight from Dublin to New Orleans is delayed by giant foul-up on RyanAir’s part; H 2005 - Mexico and southern TX]
Not […]
Day 423: My Friends Are Nerds
Posted on October 26, 2006 - Filed Under education, science & technology | 5 Comments
… and that’s how I like it.
R in today’s edition of txyankee: “Let me remind you: Evolution is not a theory, it is a scientific fact. There are many theories as to the driving force(s) behind it. And the Holy See issued a statement or whatever they call it that ‘Evolution is not in conflict […]
Posted on October 25, 2006 - Filed Under We Are Not Ok, blurbs, education, new orleans | Leave a Comment
At the end of this morning’s post on area schools and higher education, I quickly pointed out a nola.com article on the city’s historic mockery of a sound public school education and recently suggested overhauls to overhauls, which tend to err on the side of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. (Admitting students […]
Read More..>>Day 422: In The Age Of The Internet
Posted on October 25, 2006 - Filed Under books, computing & internet, project gutenberg, public domain | 5 Comments
… is an eensy-weensy crosscheck so hard?
“Charles Darwin’s works go online,” proclaims BBC.
The complete works of one of history’s greatest scientists, Charles Darwin, are being published online. The project run by Cambridge University has digitised some 50,000 pages of text and 40,000 images of original publications - all of it searchable.
Other texts appearing online for […]
Day 422: “But, Wisconsin Is So Far Away!”
Posted on October 25, 2006 - Filed Under education, new orleans, science & technology, wisconsin | 5 Comments
Last evening, I (wo)manned the University of Wisconsin booth at the 15th Annual Archdiocese of New Orleans College Fair. Over the course of three hours, I talked with hundreds of area high-school students interested in a higher education. There were three types of takers - those who will never leave Louisiana, ones that […]
Read More..>>Day 421: We Aren’t Getting Any Younger
Posted on October 24, 2006 - Filed Under family & friends, new orleans | 6 Comments
Even as I type this, I hesitate to be the one to let some of you know that Loki’s father passed away quite unexpectedly last night. The news comes as a shock to all of us, and is doubly saddening in light of Loki and Alexis’s upcoming nuptials. In no uncertain terms, this sucks. If there […]
Read More..>>Day 421: The Saturday That Was
Posted on October 24, 2006 - Filed Under big easy rollergirls, culture-society-history, new orleans, pictures | 2 Comments
A blogger’s birthday party in conjunction with a Big Easy Rollergirls bout - this is getting to be a habit around here. A wee past tea-time, Loki and I ventured out onto Frat Row and then quickly turned left to attend Ashley’s birthday get-together. Oyster, his Lovely and Pearl Girl followed my car […]
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