Day 823: Not Dead Yet
Posted on November 28, 2007 - Filed Under travel | 2 Comments
“Suck it up, sugar” has been the mantra over here for the past few days as work, preparing for the upcoming two-week business trip, krewe business, change in weather, insomnia and (get a load of this) homework for the course I’m about to take converge towards Maitri Wants To Cry While In The Fetal Position.
My […]
Day 820: The Day The Routers Died
Posted on November 25, 2007 - Filed Under gizmos & hacks, music | 1 Comment
Ultimate nerdery at the 2007 RIPE (European IP Networks) convention
“So, bye bye, folks at RIPE 55
Be persuaded to upgrade it or your network will die
IPv6 just makes me let out a sigh
But I s’pose we’d better give it a try
I suppose we’d better give it a try.”
N.B.: It’s a row-ter, not a roo-ter.
Day 820: African-American Women And Where They Stand
Posted on November 25, 2007 - Filed Under culture-society-history, movies/tv | 1 Comment
MSNBC to air five-part series starting Monday, November 26th
Throughout the week of November 26, “NBC News With Brian Williams” will take a look at the issues facing African-American women across our nation in a new series “African-American Women: Where They Stand.” The series will cover a wide-range of issues from their role in the ‘08 […]
Day 816: Up North For Thanksgiving
Posted on November 21, 2007 - Filed Under football, new orleans, sports, wisconsin | 2 Comments
Light blogging ahead as D and I fly into O’Hare on the busiest travel day of the year. Shoot me now. On the bright side, we will drive right past Lambeau Field on the way home. ”Our Favre, who art in Lambeau, hallowed be thine arm. The bowl will come, it will be won … For thine […]
Read More..>>Day 816: RIP, Doc Paulin
Posted on November 21, 2007 - Filed Under music, new orleans | 1 Comment
nola.com: New Orleans jazz loses one of its early pioneers, Ernest “Doc” Paulin
Thoughts and prayers go out to the Paulin Brothers at this sad time. The brothers have been an integral part of Krewe de C.R.A.P.S. (and Krewe du Vieux) tradition and will walk with us again this season.
Day 815: Just In Time For Christmas, It’s Maitri Barbie!
Posted on November 20, 2007 - Filed Under desi / india, funny | 7 Comments
At Best Buy in Metairie a few nights ago, I neared the checkout register only to be greeted with, “Oh my god, you look like a Barbie!”
“Huh?” was my immediate response as I restrained retorts like “Which one? Malibu Barbie or Peaches & Cream Barbie? Diwali Barbie, perhaps, seeing as how my luscious […]
Day 815: New Orleans vs. America
Posted on November 20, 2007 - Filed Under We Are Not Ok, government, new orleans | 6 Comments
NYTimes: Panel Picks 4 Debate Sites, Angering Excluded New Orleans
IHT: Organizer told New Orleans “not ready” for presidential debate
New Orleans was turned down as a site for one of the 2008 presidential debates because organizers said it had not sufficiently recovered from Hurricane Katrina to handle such an important event, the woman spearheading the effort […]
Day 813: A Further Exploration Of NOSHIT
Posted on November 18, 2007 - Filed Under culture-society-history, government, science & technology | 2 Comments
As a follow-up to Dambala’s post on riotcasting and the New Orleans Societal Havoc Indicator Test (NOSHIT), here’s an article about the work of game theorist, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita. Despite how this self-proclaimed rational Nostradamus prognosticates medium-sized conflicts and political successions, couldn’t foresee 9/11 and the not trivial unraveling of the situation in Iraq […]
Read More..>>Day 812: Simple Math, Unsound Assumptions & General Disappointment
Posted on November 17, 2007 - Filed Under WTF, We Are Not Ok, federal flood, government, new orleans, recovery | 1 Comment
Army Corps of Engineers To New Orleans: OH WHOOPS WE WERE JUST KIDDING LOL
Turns out, the corps was right when it announced in June that new gates and levee repairs would reduce flooding in those areas by up to 5 1/2 feet if the city is hit by a 100-year hurricane. But on […]
Read More..>>Posted on November 16, 2007 - Filed Under blurbs, computing & internet, government, movies/tv, new orleans | 4 Comments
Current web clip at the top of my Inbox: Did You Vote For Jindal? - www.GOP.com - Vote Republican on Nov. 17th & Give Him A Legislature He Can Work With. Blech, first my phones, then my email and now my email box. It’s a conspiracy to drive us to Ren-sanity, I tell […]
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