Pasta! Homemade, hand rolled pasta… That’s what was for dinner on Sunday. Hand-crafted little ravioli marvels, full of crab and cheese, and served in a tasty four-cheese hollandaise sauce with extra bits of seafood for flavor. And that’s what’s behind the big gap in posting this week.
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Just an “ouch!” moment from the last paragraph of this CNN article:
Wisconsin is one of the few battleground states that has gained jobs since Bush took office. The unemployment rate is up nearly a percentage point, but Labor Department records show a gain of 200 jobs since January 2001.
Tagged Politics
Sometimes following a different path home after work is it’s own reward. Other times, you stumble on cool photo opportunities like this one. I call it “Reason #572 that I’d make a lousy soldier.”
If I was the guy on the rope, I’d be frozen just about there, trying to decide if it was a better idea to claw and scrabble my way back up the wall or if I should spend the next several weeks continuing to inch my way down.
If I was the guy on the roof, I’d be throwing up all over the guy on the rope.
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Ok all you undecided voters out there! Time to take the quiz and see how you match up with the candidates…
Heck, take it if you’re a decided voter too. Your results may surprise you…
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I’m filming a set of interviews with cancer patients, and there are a couple of common themes that are developing. One of the biggest ones has to be the alteration in interpersonal power dynamics that occurs when one person is dressed in ordinary clothes and the other is wearing a paper gown that almost, but not quite, ties in the back.
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There’s been this odd, dark, musty smell that I’ve started noticing at work. At first I thought it was my desk area, but then I noticed it at the conference table, and over by the scanner.
Then I realized that I haven’t worn these shoes all summer. And I remembered why I stopped wearing them last spring.
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If you’ve seen Shanghai Noon, there’s a scene where Jackie Chan beats the living tar out of a group of angry cowboys using only a horseshoe on a rope. The rope-dart is an actual martial arts weapon, available from actual martial arts weapons supply places. And it looks incredibly cool.
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Ok, the post I was going to do about how Gallup polls are officially useless just vanished into the ether thanks to a misplaced “Command-W”. Of course, if it weren’t for a misplaced W being in command, I wouldn’t have any incentive to write about politics in the first place… Anyway, instead of blathering on about some political thing that might interest two of you out there, I’ll write about two fascinatingly hyphenated words that I happened across at Andy Ihnatko’s Yellowtext while I was simmering over my keyboard ineptitude:
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Every so often, you find a book that changes how you look at the world. I’m not talking about religious conversion or huge philosophical changes, I just mean more subtle things. It could be a great physics textbook that gives you an unexpected insight into the Leidenfrost effect, so that you can never look at a pancake the same way. Or a software manual that suddenly and unexpectedly clarifies absolutely everything about PHP and CSS, giving you a deep appreciation of a well done database-driven website.
Or it could be a book about zombies.
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Whoo hoo! I found a printer driver for the dye sublimation printer! It actually makes the Kodak 8670 PS printer useful under Mac OS X!
And now that I’ve got the keywords in my text for the search engines to find, it’s only fair for me to post a link to the site where you can download the driver. It’s kind of buried in their technical support pages, so some people may find this a useful shortcut.
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