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Birthday Blog

I’m just sayin’ . . .
Tomorrow I turn 39. 39! Wow. It went by so fast. And life is full of so many changes. Lots to report. Lots to update but today and tomorrow are about celebration and bbq. Talk to you later.

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Friday Fives

Friday Fives

1. What brand of toothpaste do you use?
Crest. I’m a Crest kid, baby!

2. What brand of toilet paper do you prefer?
Quilted Northern – the softest you can buy.

3. What brand(s) of shoes do you wear?
Bass, usually, or what ever is on the discount rack and DSW.

4. What brand of soda do you drink?
Usually a Coke, but have been drinking less and less soda everyday. More of an ice tea person.

5. What brand of gum do you chew?
Wrigley Spearmint Ice – Wow, there is a lot going on there.

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Next Stop, FotoBlog

I bought myself a birthday present this week. The good people of eBay were nice enough to bring the price down on the Nikon Coolpix 995 digital camera. The $700.00 beauty was delivered yesterday for the wonderful price of $290.00 Battery is charged, CF Memory card installed and I am ready to roll. Well, that is as soon I get through the manual on this dauntingly cool camera.
Don’t be surprised to see a link to a fotolog or an upgrade here to blogspot and blogger pro in order show off some photography. The great part about this camera is that has the ability to go from full automatic to fully manual with spot metering (hello zone system!) and depth of field aperture control.
And it is a Nikon, which means accessories and expandability.
Yea! for me.

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Adieu, Buffy

Tonight is the series finale for Buffy, in which the series ends with Sarah Michelle Geller running off to the bank and the unemployment line.
Some Buffy fun follows, for she will always be around in re-runs:

  • Season finale spoilers – what will happen
  • ‘Buffy’- licious links
  • Hellmouth Blog
  • Buffsmut – gossip
  • Buffysearch.com
  • Bye Bye Buffy

    (Salon.com’s cover story on the series’ finale)

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    Ari Fleisher Leaves

    Ari is leaving the White House. There are few details about this departure so far, but in my world of nefarious back story crafting, it all has to do with his new wife.

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    Lost In America

    Last night was very cool.
    For my birthday, I got tickets to go see “This American Life” on the road as part of their five city tour. What fun.
    It is hard to describe the making of a radio program on stage. TAL is not like Prairie Home Companion, its PRI radio cousin. It isn’t a radio show necessarily crafted to be performed before a live audience. But it was a treat nonetheless. Ira Glass sitting at a desk, headphones on, mixing his radio documentary live as you listened. Jon Langford and his five piece band singing his country punk rock including a special bit by a discovered band member playing the theramin and then . . . the good stuff.
    Sara Vowells gave a history of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, culminating in a huge concert-hall-sing-along of the famous song as the packed house at the Paramount Theater in Denver joined in to “His Truth Is Marching On.”
    Jonathan Goldstein, the Canadian straight version of David Sedaris, gave his testament to losing his virginity to a whore and a hilarious telling of masturbating as a 14-year-old.
    And one of the best bits, Found magazine founder and frequent TAL contributor Davy Rothbart shared many of his favorite found pieces that included an impromptu reading of a four-page play with only pages 1,2, and 4 available. The three audience members who participated where great.
    Ira Glass and comic book artist Chris Ware featured a multi-media documentary piece on the loss of the Chicago architecture of Louis Sullivan with audio and original comic book art.
    The whole show was a fund raiser for TAL and part of the deal is you buy their merchandise and it is funny stuff. A-paint-by-numbers set with art work inspired by pieces presented on the radio show.
    What a nice time it was.

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    QuickOffice

    Pages after pages after pages of internet stories uploaded each day, filtered by me to this blog- how does he do it.
    Someone asked me just the other day if I actually read this stuff that I upload.
    Yes, I do. But not usually in one sititng. It is a lot to take in at times. But before the internet, I was always an avid newspaper and magazine reader, devouring issue after issue of several magazines a month.
    Now, with the magic of the Handspring Visor, coupled with one of the coolest bit of software I have ever purchased, I carry most of this stuff around with me and read it on my PDA at my leisure. The QuickOffice suite, including QuickWord for the Palm Pilot is a nifty little piece of software that allows me to cut and paste an online article into Microsoft Word, then save it as a QuickWord document and download it into my PDA. I usually have about four or five articles in there at any one time, along with a day or two of Salon Premium, downloaded as text as well. I highly recommend it. For $29.95 it is a good buy and you will get more use out of that PDA you haul around, besides playing mine sweeper and using it to remember to call your mother.

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    Just Shut Up Anne Coulter!!!

    A few months back someone asked who this Anne Coulter chick was.
    I was floored.
    One of my flagrantly liberal friends had not been apprised of the one person whom many liberals consider the evil personification of all things wrong with the vast right wing.
    But who is this loud mouthed blonde. She appears regularly on Bill Maher’s show, she is a syndicated columnist and she is about a year away from saying something so abominable out loud that she will wither away into obscurity.
    The UK Guardian (a great web site for what we American’s are doing, as seen across the pond, by the way) raised these questions and reading it, your jaw will drop.
    She makes Bill O’Reilly look almost balanced.

  • An appalling magic
  • The anti-coulter — a rebuttal site
  • Eric Alterman’s fact checking of Coulter

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    Friday Fives

    Friday Fives

    1. What drinking water do you prefer — tap, bottle, purifier, etc.?
    Generally filtered through the tap. I have used a Brita and a Pur water filter in the kitchen for a few years and they work and taste great. I don’t understand the concept of buying bottled water – especially out of the vending machine. It is a concept that confuses me.

    2. What are your favourite flavor of chips?
    Salt and vinegar and kettle fried so they are extra crispy. And as a splurge, Pringles. Not really chips but yummy.

    3. Of all the things you can cook, what dish do you like the most?
    I am a pretty damn good cook. My three favorites, since this is number three on the list – my homemade French bread kicks ass. I make a damn fine Green Chili for a gringo and a decadent Lasagne.

    4. How do you have your eggs?
    Basted, sunny side up.

    5. Who was the last person who cooked you a meal? How did it turn out?
    My sister. She grilled some chicken and made some homemade mac and cheese and green beans. A good ol’ fashioned home cooked meal. It was awesome.

    Now, I am hungry.

    via FridayFive.org

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    Grrrrrr I Have To Eat Crow

    I recently cast a wide net of dispersions to all my friends who use MSN 8 as their internet service because it doesn’t support pop3 email. How can you enjoy the internet, I shouted, when you are told you can’t control your own email content.
    But it seems my internet provider – TVMax, through Broadband now, has decided to make their email service suck even worse.
    They just don’t send it.
    Call after call for a week and I get a different answer every time as to why none of my email is being delivered. I can send it out, and I can surf the web, but don’t try to get a hold of me, because now that ATT has been swallowed up by Comcast, my cable company, it seems, has decided to fill that void left by poor service and crappy network that ATT was so famous for.
    It is as if the good people at TVMax got some new head of technology and he was sitting at his desk sharpening pencils and saying aloud “How can I make my mark, how can I make a difference? I know, I will ruin everything and then redesign it from the top up!”
    In the last two months they have had a major fiber break that took the network down for six days. At least once a week the service is down completely for a few hours and starting last week, unannounced to their subscribers, they began moving all of their email to new servers, leaving people without the major reason they have the web in the first place – email. Calls to the call center the last two days go unanswered. I am not talking long hold times and long queues – I am talking about no one answering the phone. It just rings and rings and rings.
    If this mysterious plan is followed out, they should be just like ATT in a matter of days.
    And to think just a few short months ago, I used to brag about these guys.
    Sigh.