Day 911: Vacances Et Voyages
Posted on February 24, 2008 - Filed Under pictures, travel | 6 Comments
VatulBlog is on vacation for a week. Enjoy the view.
Read More..>>Day 910: Fog On The River
Posted on February 23, 2008 - Filed Under new orleans, pictures, weather | Leave a Comment
gently wafts into the Quarter.
Taken on Thursday, February 21st, after the morning rains.
Read More..>>Posted on February 23, 2008 - Filed Under blurbs, food & drink, new orleans | 3 Comments
The two foodies in this house make reservations for No Reservations. In addition, Alan Richman is not invited ever since this spiteful ball of confusion was printed in GQ. (If Richman can make non-confrontational D write a rebuttal, something really ain’t right with that man.) So, imagine our glee-times-two when we found […]
Read More..>>Posted on February 23, 2008 - Filed Under blurbs, computing & internet, family & friends, food & drink, new orleans | 4 Comments
There, I bought the increasingly Suspect Device a beer. But not for Nader. Why then? I don’t drink beer (except for the occasional Guinness or superfresh product from America’s #1 rated brewery), can’t have one right now and gotta man him up a bit after my mom thought of him as a nice boy. That’s […]
Read More..>>Day 910: What’s In A Name?
Posted on February 23, 2008 - Filed Under family & friends, new orleans | 12 Comments
The naming of Persephone Jean Everpax got me thinking about the somewhat noteworthy history surrounding my own moniker. As if Maitri isn’t hard enough on the western tongue (and I hate it when some cluelessly insist on calling me May-tree after I’ve just introduced myself as My-tree), the parentals also handed me a mouthful of […]
Read More..>>Day 909: Editor B’s Little Girl Is Here!
Posted on February 22, 2008 - Filed Under family & friends, new orleans, pictures | 3 Comments
Congratulations, Bart and Xy, on the birth of Persephone Jean Everpax (6 lbs, 17 3/4″)!
Read More..>>Day 908: “There Are Mental Cases In This Community”
Posted on February 21, 2008 - Filed Under WTF, We Are Not Ok, government, new orleans, recovery | 6 Comments
Mayor C. Ray Nagin is one of them*. Here he goes again.
“I am coming back to this station and me and your news director are going to be outside in the parking lot having a good one on one.”
“… your newscasts, the local newspapers are feeding these awful ugly talk shows that are feeding […]
Day 907: Gonzo
Posted on February 20, 2008 - Filed Under books, funny, travel | 2 Comments
Without fail, on every drive from IAH to the west suburbs of Houston, I miss the same three exits and have to backtrack. Why can’t I simply remember that the signs for Beltway 8 and the I-10 are going to sneak up on me right after the onset of a comfortable highway hypnosis, and that […]
Read More..>>Day 906: Look! In The Sky! It’s Falling And There’s No Light!
Posted on February 19, 2008 - Filed Under science & technology | 3 Comments
VatulBlog BFF, Julie, writes:
Wednesday night is going to be one hell of an astronomy/aerospace adventure, it seems.
A ‘NOTAM’ is apparently a Notice To Airmen, and this one is posted for tomorrow.
… I have made the following plot, which shows that USA 193 will pass through the restricted zone on 2008 Feb 21, near 03:30 UTC […]
Day 906: Don’t Fear The Cheese
Posted on February 19, 2008 - Filed Under desi / india, family & friends, government, wisconsin | Leave a Comment
LATimes: Clinton, Obama will watch Wisconsin from afar
… candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton have both moved on, taking their messages to states that vote next month.
… today [Clinton] was in Ohio, which holds a primary on March 4, conducting an economic round-table with voters
… Obama, under attack by the Clinton campaign for being a […]
