Why Support Animal Rescue?
Billy Beck points to the story of Roger van Bakel whose application for adoption of Baxter, a Saint Bernard, was turned down. RTWT but the nub of the gist is that despite a history of dog rescue care, van Bakel's family was not allowed to care for Baxter because there were children under the age of 12 in the household. And they couldn't guarantee the background of the dog. So Baxter was euthanized. I'm going to guess that liability concerns were the driving factor in this. This makes me very sad.
Please note that the Animal Rescue League of New Hampshire (below) is a no-kill shelter. That is the kind of animal rescue I do support.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Songs Of PRaiSe
Here's a Brazilian rosewood-necked 513 on eBay. The BIN price is basically the retail price of one when the Brazzy was the only model offered. Actually, with the artist pack upgrades, the price is even better. This beauty is in Mateo Blue which would make it, essentially the twin of mine. If you want a really, I mean really sweet guitar, here it is. Oh, and if you watched "American Idol," you saw this same guitar being played by the band's lead guitarist.
Here's a Brazilian rosewood-necked 513 on eBay. The BIN price is basically the retail price of one when the Brazzy was the only model offered. Actually, with the artist pack upgrades, the price is even better. This beauty is in Mateo Blue which would make it, essentially the twin of mine. If you want a really, I mean really sweet guitar, here it is. Oh, and if you watched "American Idol," you saw this same guitar being played by the band's lead guitarist.
Maple Bacon Morning Coffee
In a word: Meh. In many more words: There is definitely a flavor of maple but it is subtle. I really get no bacon out of it at all, which is not necessarily a bad thing. It's OK but not any more than that. The blueberry was vastly better. Clear evidence that Boca Java doesn't hit every one out of the park. Than again, El Rushbo says the Maple Bacon Morning is his favorite so kissed the cow, YMMV, non disputandum, etc. etc.
In a word: Meh. In many more words: There is definitely a flavor of maple but it is subtle. I really get no bacon out of it at all, which is not necessarily a bad thing. It's OK but not any more than that. The blueberry was vastly better. Clear evidence that Boca Java doesn't hit every one out of the park. Than again, El Rushbo says the Maple Bacon Morning is his favorite so kissed the cow, YMMV, non disputandum, etc. etc.
Monday, September 17, 2007
Whadda Ya Think?
Tomorrow brings another trip to Costco and I do believe I'm going to bring home a watermelon for another sorbet experiment. I'm thinking green apple vodka in a watermelon base with just a hint of balsamic vinegar for spice. Any one care to argue me out of it? Or suggest another direction for the 'bet?
Tomorrow brings another trip to Costco and I do believe I'm going to bring home a watermelon for another sorbet experiment. I'm thinking green apple vodka in a watermelon base with just a hint of balsamic vinegar for spice. Any one care to argue me out of it? Or suggest another direction for the 'bet?
Todaze Photoshop Phun
According to the article "The Hillarycare Mythology" at the lefty waste of paper "The American Prospect" (no links because they are not going to get anything from me but derision), It was Billy, not Hilly who was behind the attempted socialization of of American medicine back in the 80s. I should say attempted National Socialization of American medicine just to get the true flavor of Hillary's Nazi inclinations but I'm just waaayyy too subtle to do that!
Instead, I take the OJ book and make a few modifications. As always, click image for a larger version:
According to the article "The Hillarycare Mythology" at the lefty waste of paper "The American Prospect" (no links because they are not going to get anything from me but derision), It was Billy, not Hilly who was behind the attempted socialization of of American medicine back in the 80s. I should say attempted National Socialization of American medicine just to get the true flavor of Hillary's Nazi inclinations but I'm just waaayyy too subtle to do that!
Instead, I take the OJ book and make a few modifications. As always, click image for a larger version:
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Enjoyable Reading
I've been spending some time with The Angry Pharmacist lately. Angry? Yes. Amusing? Definitely. He makes me think this is how my friend the Enigmatic Misanthrope would be had he a PharmD and a blog. Higher praise I can not bestow.
I've been spending some time with The Angry Pharmacist lately. Angry? Yes. Amusing? Definitely. He makes me think this is how my friend the Enigmatic Misanthrope would be had he a PharmD and a blog. Higher praise I can not bestow.
Git You Some Chikin!
Fo free! The nice Christian folks at Chick-fil-a are offering up a whole raft of free sammiches and Co'cola sody pop - one at a time of course (don't be greedy!) - if you go to Free Chicken and Coke . com and register. It remains to be seen what they want to do with your info but I'll give up the contact info for a meal. I'm easy that way.
Fo free! The nice Christian folks at Chick-fil-a are offering up a whole raft of free sammiches and Co'cola sody pop - one at a time of course (don't be greedy!) - if you go to Free Chicken and Coke . com and register. It remains to be seen what they want to do with your info but I'll give up the contact info for a meal. I'm easy that way.
Wherein I Stretch For A Result
Canadian doughnut shop Tim Horton's recently set up a franchise in the US. One of the women hired to serve was, unbeknownst to the parent company, also a prostitute. When the police finally busted her, the headline in the local paper was "Horton Hires a Ho."
Hey. I didn't promise good. Just a result.
Canadian doughnut shop Tim Horton's recently set up a franchise in the US. One of the women hired to serve was, unbeknownst to the parent company, also a prostitute. When the police finally busted her, the headline in the local paper was "Horton Hires a Ho."
Hey. I didn't promise good. Just a result.
Friday, September 14, 2007
Apple's New iPod Nano Ad
I'm going to assume that you must have seen the new ad for Apple's new video iPod Nano. If not, you can follow the link. I won't get into the device itself save to say that it's another remarkable product - to get a tiny, tiny screen of dense resolution is something although it's squatty looks don't exactly goose up the geek lust. At this point, it's the ad I'm interested in. The video of the song playing is Feist's "1 2 3 4" which is on uToob so ...
I like it. It's wonderfully alive with the colorfully clad cast and the song is just enough of an ear worm that it makes a great choice for an ad. Apple's media people are no dummies (says the guy who was turned on to The Fratellis when Apple used "Flathead" in an iPod ad). The lyrics are not exactly overwhelming but that's not a big deal really. Feist has one of those voices that's not classical but has real character. She is interesting to listen to even if the words are not exactly "An die Fruede." And the choral swelling of the "Oh-oh-oh" works just perfectly right. Excellent songwriting.
As the blog has amply demonstrated over time with my fealty to Emm Gryner, I like whiny Canadian chick singer-songwriters. I think it started with Joni Mitchell. And Feist is right there. I wish her great success even though I'm not in any hurry to buy her disc.
What struck me, finally, after actually watching the video is how well Apple chose not just the song but the viddy as well. The appearing of the subsequent Nanos under the first picks up the way the music video has a raft of people appear from behind Feist. Watch the viddy and watch the ad. It's evident. Took me a while to recognize it though.
I'm going to assume that you must have seen the new ad for Apple's new video iPod Nano. If not, you can follow the link. I won't get into the device itself save to say that it's another remarkable product - to get a tiny, tiny screen of dense resolution is something although it's squatty looks don't exactly goose up the geek lust. At this point, it's the ad I'm interested in. The video of the song playing is Feist's "1 2 3 4" which is on uToob so ...
I like it. It's wonderfully alive with the colorfully clad cast and the song is just enough of an ear worm that it makes a great choice for an ad. Apple's media people are no dummies (says the guy who was turned on to The Fratellis when Apple used "Flathead" in an iPod ad). The lyrics are not exactly overwhelming but that's not a big deal really. Feist has one of those voices that's not classical but has real character. She is interesting to listen to even if the words are not exactly "An die Fruede." And the choral swelling of the "Oh-oh-oh" works just perfectly right. Excellent songwriting.
As the blog has amply demonstrated over time with my fealty to Emm Gryner, I like whiny Canadian chick singer-songwriters. I think it started with Joni Mitchell. And Feist is right there. I wish her great success even though I'm not in any hurry to buy her disc.
What struck me, finally, after actually watching the video is how well Apple chose not just the song but the viddy as well. The appearing of the subsequent Nanos under the first picks up the way the music video has a raft of people appear from behind Feist. Watch the viddy and watch the ad. It's evident. Took me a while to recognize it though.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
More On The Coffee Front
I just tried the Boca Java blueberry coffee, Two words: Yuh umh! I've been a fan of Gevalia's blueberry coffee for a while - to the extent of buying into their "seasonal flavors" club. I can bomb out of that one now. Boca Java makes theirs available year-round and it's as much blueberry as I want. Winner.
I also have a bag of the "Maple Bacon Morning" which sounds t weird enough to be either really good, or gawdawful. The former I hope. I really, really hope.
I just tried the Boca Java blueberry coffee, Two words: Yuh umh! I've been a fan of Gevalia's blueberry coffee for a while - to the extent of buying into their "seasonal flavors" club. I can bomb out of that one now. Boca Java makes theirs available year-round and it's as much blueberry as I want. Winner.
I also have a bag of the "Maple Bacon Morning" which sounds t weird enough to be either really good, or gawdawful. The former I hope. I really, really hope.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
9/11
I am not one to post an extended look back, the blogosphere is full of them and more talented writers than I have made the points that still need to be made even after the passage of six years. I just want to say that after six years the depth of the tragedy continues to unfold. It is a fractal fracture in the world. No matter how far down you drill, nor from how high up you observe it, the world was given notice that day that Islamofascism would not be satisfied short of putting the entire world under its control.
The fight against it will see me out of this life I am sure, just as the fight against communism saw so many out of their lives. I hope we prevail but I am not confident of that when I see the Democrats treat their political opposition as a greater threat than the imams.
I am not one to post an extended look back, the blogosphere is full of them and more talented writers than I have made the points that still need to be made even after the passage of six years. I just want to say that after six years the depth of the tragedy continues to unfold. It is a fractal fracture in the world. No matter how far down you drill, nor from how high up you observe it, the world was given notice that day that Islamofascism would not be satisfied short of putting the entire world under its control.
The fight against it will see me out of this life I am sure, just as the fight against communism saw so many out of their lives. I hope we prevail but I am not confident of that when I see the Democrats treat their political opposition as a greater threat than the imams.
Sunday, September 09, 2007
Working The TV
Since NBC is seeing fit to resurrect the Bionic Woman (not the original Bionic Woman - she's sleeping on Sleep Number beds now and still lookin' fine ... is it the bionics?), maybe the Food Channel or the folks who do Iron Chef could gin up a show about a woman whose vegetarian diet gives her super powers. The Macrobiotic Woman. We have the technology!
Since NBC is seeing fit to resurrect the Bionic Woman (not the original Bionic Woman - she's sleeping on Sleep Number beds now and still lookin' fine ... is it the bionics?), maybe the Food Channel or the folks who do Iron Chef could gin up a show about a woman whose vegetarian diet gives her super powers. The Macrobiotic Woman. We have the technology!
Good Beer. Lousy Ad.
Heineken is advertising its 5-liter "draft keg" with a techno-pop robot dance ad on TV. It's here on uToob. I won't embed it because it is a crappy, lousy bad ad. The girl who is roboted up may well be very cute in real life. But she looks like hell in the ad. Very Maria if you remember your "Metropolis." But she's not the worst of it. The problem is the music. Who did they get to write that crap? I'm figuring that it was Ross Geller on his synthesizer in Central Perk.
Or maybe Prof Plum in the conservatory with a lead pipe.
Heineken is advertising its 5-liter "draft keg" with a techno-pop robot dance ad on TV. It's here on uToob. I won't embed it because it is a crappy, lousy bad ad. The girl who is roboted up may well be very cute in real life. But she looks like hell in the ad. Very Maria if you remember your "Metropolis." But she's not the worst of it. The problem is the music. Who did they get to write that crap? I'm figuring that it was Ross Geller on his synthesizer in Central Perk.
Or maybe Prof Plum in the conservatory with a lead pipe.
Friday, September 07, 2007
A Shout Out
I want to give a friend of mine (you know who you are!) huge kudos for her weight loss. She has always been a beautiful brunette but now she could easily pass as Marisa Tomei's sister. Hubba hubba! Too bad she's already married. Enh, what the heck, she deserves all the credit in the world for overcoming what I've always struggled with. I hope you lose all that you want to lose and are ever comfortable with it.
I want to give a friend of mine (you know who you are!) huge kudos for her weight loss. She has always been a beautiful brunette but now she could easily pass as Marisa Tomei's sister. Hubba hubba! Too bad she's already married. Enh, what the heck, she deserves all the credit in the world for overcoming what I've always struggled with. I hope you lose all that you want to lose and are ever comfortable with it.
Hsu Fly Pie
OK, so I don't know how to make that verbiage work in real life. And "if the Hsu flits" has already been used at least twice. But I am left to wonder at the reports that "fugitive donor" Hsu took ill on an Amtrak train in Colorado. Where can you find Polonium 210 in Chappaqua, New York?
OK, so I don't know how to make that verbiage work in real life. And "if the Hsu flits" has already been used at least twice. But I am left to wonder at the reports that "fugitive donor" Hsu took ill on an Amtrak train in Colorado. Where can you find Polonium 210 in Chappaqua, New York?
New Appley Goodness
I am working up a post on the newly introduced revamped iPod lineup but Brian Tiemann has a pretty good look at them already up. Well worth a read. When I come up with something that's not slavering fan-boyism or rehash of others' takes, I will post. For the nonce, let me just say that Apple has done it again. I have more iPods than I have ears and I still want one of the new iPod Touch models. Sex-ay!
Also, with the price drop on iPhones and Steve Jobs' decision (I say Jobs because it strikes me as just the kind of thing he would champion even if it were a corporate decision) to give $100 rebates to those who paid the "early adopter tax" on the initial release, I say "Bravo Apple!" They absolutely didn't have to do this and yet they did. Can you say "brand loyalty?" Sure, I knew you could. Microsoft might think about giving Vista beta testers, unh, I mean "purchasers" a rebate. Ha ha ha ha ha! I like jokes.
UPDATE: My apologies. I called what Apple is doing a "rebate." It's not. It's a $100 credit for Apple products. Not as universally good as cash money but considering it didn't have to be done at all, pretty darn good.
I am working up a post on the newly introduced revamped iPod lineup but Brian Tiemann has a pretty good look at them already up. Well worth a read. When I come up with something that's not slavering fan-boyism or rehash of others' takes, I will post. For the nonce, let me just say that Apple has done it again. I have more iPods than I have ears and I still want one of the new iPod Touch models. Sex-ay!
Also, with the price drop on iPhones and Steve Jobs' decision (I say Jobs because it strikes me as just the kind of thing he would champion even if it were a corporate decision) to give $100 rebates to those who paid the "early adopter tax" on the initial release, I say "Bravo Apple!" They absolutely didn't have to do this and yet they did. Can you say "brand loyalty?" Sure, I knew you could. Microsoft might think about giving Vista beta testers, unh, I mean "purchasers" a rebate. Ha ha ha ha ha! I like jokes.
UPDATE: My apologies. I called what Apple is doing a "rebate." It's not. It's a $100 credit for Apple products. Not as universally good as cash money but considering it didn't have to be done at all, pretty darn good.
Thursday, September 06, 2007
Dem Damaders
I had a Big Rainbow with my breakfast this morning. It was meaty, sweet and just downright amazing. I think that my selection of plants for next year's Deck Farm™ will be Supersteak and Big Rainbow. The Black Krim set not a single bud and the Brandywine is not to my taste. Got to plan these things doncha know....
I had a Big Rainbow with my breakfast this morning. It was meaty, sweet and just downright amazing. I think that my selection of plants for next year's Deck Farm™ will be Supersteak and Big Rainbow. The Black Krim set not a single bud and the Brandywine is not to my taste. Got to plan these things doncha know....
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